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A Novel Compact Highly Isolated UWB MIMO Antenna with WLAN Notch
Muhammad Awais1, Shahid Bashir1, Awais Khan1,2, Muhammad Asif2, Nasim Ullah3,*, Hend I. Alkhammash4
1 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Bannu, 28100, Pakistan
3 Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering Taif University,
Al-Hawiyah, Taif, P.O. Box 888, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author: Nasim Ullah. Email:
Computers, Materials & Continua 2023, 75(1), 669-681. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.033939
Received 01 July 2022; Accepted 07 September 2022; Issue published 06 February 2023
Abstract
This paper presents a compact Multiple Input Multiple Output
(MIMO) antenna with WLAN band notch for Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
applications. The antenna is designed on 0.8 mm thick low-cost FR-4 substrate
having a compact size of 22 mm × 30 mm. The proposed antenna comprises
of two monopole patches on the top layer of substrate while having a shared
ground on its bottom layer. The mutual coupling between adjacent patches
has been reduced by using a novel stub with shared ground structure. The stub
consists of complementary rectangular slots that disturb the surface current
direction and thus result in reducing mutual coupling between two ports. A
slot is etched in the radiating patch for WLAN band notch. The slot is used
to suppress frequencies ranging from 5.1 to 5.9 GHz. The results show that the
proposed antenna has a very good impedance bandwidth of |S11| < −10 dB
within the frequency band from 3.1–14 GHz. A low mutual coupling of less
than −23 dB is achieved within the entire UWB band. Furthermore, the
antenna has a peak gain of 5.8 dB, low ECC < 0.002 and high Diversity Gain
(DG > 9.98).
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M. Awais, S. Bashir, A. Khan, M. Asif, N.Ullah et al., "A novel compact highly isolated uwb mimo antenna with wlan notch,"
Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 75, no.1, pp. 669–681, 2023. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.033939