Isolation Improvement of Compact Microbase Station Antenna Based on Metasurface Spatial Filtering

A compact high-isolation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) microbase station antenna consisting of two dual-polarized antenna elements is presented. The symmetrical magnetic coupling feeding network is used to feed the radiation patch of the dual-polarized antenna and to improve the isolation of the antenna element. By introducing parasitic square patches, the radiation characteristics and isolation of the dual-polarized antenna are improved. In addition, a modified closed-loop metasurface unit is designed and used to construct an isolation wall. When dual-polarized antenna elements are used to assemble a MIMO antenna, the proposed metasurface structure is inserted between them to reduce the coupling between MIMO antenna elements, regarded as a spatial band-stop filter to suppress the spatial electromagnetic waveform of the elements. After loading the metasurface isolation wall, the maximum increase of isolation is 9.17 dB at the center frequency point of 2.6 GHz. For antenna element ports and cross-polarized ports, the isolations are greater than 30 dB, and the isolation of the same polarized ports is better than 25 dB within the frequency band from 2.45 to 2.8 GHz. At the same time, the reflection coefficients of the ports of the elements are less than -15 dB. Finally, a prototype of the proposed MIMO microbase station antenna was fabricated and tested, and the experimental results are proximity with the simulation responses.

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This study presents a compact high-isolation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) microbase station antenna consisting of two dual-polarized antenna elements. The antenna uses symmetrical magnetic coupling feeding network and parasitic square patches to improve isolation and radiation characteristics, and a modified closed-loop metasurface unit is designed to construct an isolation wall that achieves a maximum increase of 9.17 dB at 2.6 GHz.