A MIMO antenna for mobile applications

Author

Di Wu ; Cheung, S.W. ; Yuk, T.I. ; Sun, X.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2013

fDate

4-6 March 2013

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

90

Abstract

A multiband Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna for mobile phones applications in the next generation is proposed. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of two identical elements, each having three branches to generate two frequency bands, a wide higher and narrow lower frequency bands. Simulation results show that these two frequency bands can cover the lower band for Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the DCS1800, PCS1900 and UMTS-2100 bands, the Wibro Band, the 2.4-GHz band for the WLAN system and also the upper band for the WiMAX. By cutting a slit on the printed circuit board (PCB) serving the ground plane, a great enhancement of isolation between the two antenna elements can be achieved for the two frequency bands.

Keywords

MIMO communication; WiMax; mobile handsets; multifrequency antennas; wireless LAN; DCS1800; Long-Term Evolution; MIMO antenna; PCB; PCS1900; UMTS-2100 bands; WLAN system; WiMAX; Wibro band; antenna elements; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency bands; ground plane; mobile phones applications; multiband antenna; multiple-input multiple-output antenna; printed circuit board; Antenna radiation patterns; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Mutual coupling; Wireless LAN; Long-Term Evolution (LTE); MIMO antennas; WLAN; WiMax; isolation; mobile terminals; multiband antenna; slit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2013 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Karlsruhe

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2830-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2829-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAT.2013.6518305

Filename

6518305