Design of a printed MIMO/diversity monopole antenna for future generation handheld devices. Issue 3 (27th August 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: See, C. H.; Abd‐Alhameed, R. A.; McEwan, N. J.; Jones, S. M. R.; Asif, R.; Excell, P. S.
• Is Part Of: International journal of RF and microwave computer-aided engineering. Volume 24:Issue 3(2014:May)
• Page Start: 348
• Page End: 359
• Publication Date: 2013-08-27
• Subjects: Microwave devices -- Computer-aided design -- Periodicals; Computer-aided engineering -- Periodicals; 621.3813
• DOI: 10.1002/mmce.20767
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1096-4290

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article presents a printed crescent‐shaped monopole MIMO diversity antenna for wireless communications. The port‐to‐port isolation is increased by introducing an <bold>I</bold>‐shaped conductor symmetrically between the two antenna elements and shaping the ground plane. Both the computed and experimental results confirm that the antenna possesses a wide impedance bandwidth of 54.5% across 1.6–2.8 GHz, with a reflection coefficient and mutual coupling better than −10 and −14 dB, respectively. By further validating the simulated and the measured radiation and MIMO characteristics including far‐field, gain, envelope correlation and channel capacity loss, the results show that the antenna can offer effective MIMO/diversity operation to alleviate multipath environments. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 24:348–359, 2014.</p> </abstract>