Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 173-180Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1759078713001013
Keywords
DGS; MIMO antenna; Coupling reduction
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A design of low mutual coupling between two microstrip patch antennas for multi input multi output antenna is presented. The two antenna elements operate at 5.8GHz for wireless applications. The reduction of mutual coupling between the antenna elements is achieved by using a defected ground structure (DGS). The DGS is inserted between the microstrip patch antenna elements to limit the surface waves between them. The separation between the edges of the two elements has been achieved to be only 0.058 lambda(0). The analysis of the correlation coefficient, diversity gain and total active reflection coefficient is presented to validate the performance of the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna. The isolation of the proposed MIMO antenna is 28dB at 5.8GHz and the envelope correlation equals 0.003. Owing to these good performances each antenna can operate almost independently. A good agreement is achieved between the simulated and the measured results.
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