A new compact wideband MIMO antenna – the double-sided tapered self-grounded monopole array
Journal article, 2014

We present a new compact wideband multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna—the double-sided 4-port arm-tapered self-grounded monopole array, briefly referred to as the butterfly antenna, in the communication. The antenna is very compact with low correlation between ports and high diversity gain. The genetic algorithm optimization scheme has been employed in the design. Simulation results have been verified against measurements. The measured reflection coefficients at all ports are below -7 dB over 0.5–9 GHz and below -4.5 dB over 0.4–0.5 GHz and 9–15 GHz. The measured correlation coefficients are below 0.4 over 0.4–15 GHz and lower than 0.1 in most of the frequency band. This new MIMO antenna is developed as a transmit antenna in reverberation chambers, and we believe that it will find more applications in other systems, such as micro base station antennas in wireless communication systems.

embedded radiation efficiency

self-grounded antenna

genetic algorithm (GA) optimization

UWB antenna

multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna

Correlation

Author

Ali Al-Rawi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Ahmed Hussain

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Jian Yang

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Magnus Franzén

Bluetest

Charlie Orlenius

Bluetest

A. Kishk

Concordia University

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

0018926x (ISSN) 15582221 (eISSN)

Vol. 62 6 3365 - 3369 6756971

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2014.2309985

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