A new dual feed PIFA diversity antenna

Author

Alja´afreh, Saqer S. ; Yi Huang ; Lei Xing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

2800

Lastpage

2803

Abstract

A new wideband, very low profile (3 mm), PIFA antenna is proposed. It utilizes two collinear feeds, ground plane slots and modified top radiating plate to reduce the mutual coupling between the feeds and improve the impedance matching. The proposed antenna has a 10-dB impedance bandwidth from 2.25 to 3.2 GHz or a fractional bandwidth of 35 %. It covers several important wireless applications such as 2.4 GHz WLAN, bluetooth, four LTE bands (bands 7, 38, 40 and 41) and S-DMB band 2.63-2.655 GHz. Both simulated and measured results are presented to quantify and validate the antenna performance. It is demonstrated that this new antenna is an excellent candidate for mobile diversity/MIMO applications.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; impedance matching; LTE bands; MIMO applications; S-DMB band; WLAN; bandwidth 2.25 GHz to 3.2 GHz; bluetooth; collinear feeds; dual feed PIFA diversity antenna; ground plane slots; impedance bandwidth; impedance matching; mobile diversity; radiating plate; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; MIMO; Wireless communication; Diversity antenna; impedance matching and PIFA antenna; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna; wideband antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902408

Filename

6902408