A tri-port MIMO antenna designed for Micro/Pico Cell applications with self-decoupled structure

Author

Wang Han ; Liu Longsheng ; Zhang Zhijun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

11

Issue

11

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A tri-port MIMO antenna designed for Micro/Pico-Cell application is proposed. It is based on printed elements with X-shaped arms, which are oriented to 0°, 120° and 240° in the azimuth plane. The arms of these elements are connected, with which a self-decoupled structure is formed. The mutual coupling between adjacent elements is below -15dB. Meanwhile, it size is compact and bidirectional radiation patterns with around 4dBi Gain and 92° 3dB beam width is achieved, which can provide good pattern diversity and full azimuth coverage in real applications.

Keywords

antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; bidirectional radiation patterns; full azimuth coverage; good pattern diversity; micro-pico cell applications; mutual coupling; self-decoupled structure; tri-port MIMO antenna; 5G mobile communication; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; MIMO; Microcell networks; Mutual coupling; Ports (Computers); MIMO antenna; antenna diversity; mutual coupling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, China

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1673-5447

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/CC.2014.7004518

Filename

7004518