Graphene based quad port terahertz MIMO antenna for wireless indoor communications

This research paper presents, an octagonal shaped graphene based terahertz patch antenna is designed for indoor communications. For a unit cell, a single graphene layer with a thickness of 10 nm has been layered over a quartz (SiO4) substrate with a thickness of 100 mu m to increase the effectiveness of the multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antenna. The MIMO antenna is chosen to operate at a frequency of 0.3 THz. For a quad-port MIMO configuration, the element cells have been arranged orthogonally. The total cross-sectional area of the terahertz (THz) MIMO antenna is 1325 x 1325 mu m(2). The suggested MIMO antenna device achieves a bandwidth of 113 GHz over a frequency range of 0.257-0.370 THz. Moreover, the mutual coupling coefficient is less than - 15 dB. The designed THz MIMO antenna's diversity performance is analyzed and the obtained diversity matrices are the diversity gain (DG) (< 9.96 dB), envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) (< 0.01), channel capacity loss (CCL) (< 0.35 bps/Hz), and total active reflection coefficient (TARC) (< - 10 dB), respectively.

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This research paper presents the design of an octagonal shaped graphene based terahertz patch antenna for indoor communications. A single graphene layer with a thickness of 10 nm is layered over a quartz substrate with a thickness of 100 μm to enhance the effectiveness of the MIMO antenna. The suggested MIMO antenna achieves a bandwidth of 113 GHz over a frequency range of 0.257-0.370 THz, with a mutual coupling coefficient of less than -15 dB. The diversity performance of the designed THz MIMO antenna is analyzed, and the obtained diversity matrices include diversity gain, envelope correlation coefficient, channel capacity loss, and total active reflection coefficient.