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Electronics 2018, 7(12), 361.
Metamaterial-Based Highly Isolated MIMO Antenna for Portable Wireless Applications
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Department of Electrical Engineering, CECOS University of IT and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
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Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hashemite University, Zarqa 13115, Jordan
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National Engineering School of Sfax, Electrical Engineering Department, Sfax 3038, Tunisia
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea
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Electronics 2018, 7(10), 267; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics7100267
Received: 6 September 2018 / Revised: 28 September 2018 / Accepted: 19 October 2018 / Published: 22 October 2018
(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
In this paper, a metamaterial structure is presented to lower the mutual coupling between the closely spaced microstrip patch antenna elements. Two elements Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna is closely placed with each other at edge to edge separation of 0.135 (7 mm). Isolation improvement of 9 dB is achieved by keeping the metamaterial structure in between the MIMO elements. With the proposed structure, the isolation is achieved around −24.5 dB. Due to low ECC, high gain, low channel capacity loss and very low mutual coupling between elements, the proposed antenna is a good candidate for the MIMO applications. The proposed antenna is fabricated and tested. A reasonable agreement between simulated and measured results is observed.
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Keywords:
MIMO; patch antenna; S-parameters; mutual coupling
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Iqbal, A.; A Saraereh, O.; Bouazizi, A.; Basir, A. Metamaterial-Based Highly Isolated MIMO Antenna for Portable Wireless Applications. Electronics 2018, 7, 267. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics7100267
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Iqbal A, A Saraereh O, Bouazizi A, Basir A. Metamaterial-Based Highly Isolated MIMO Antenna for Portable Wireless Applications. Electronics. 2018; 7(10):267. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics7100267
Chicago/Turabian StyleIqbal, Amjad; A Saraereh, Omar; Bouazizi, Amal; Basir, Abdul. 2018. "Metamaterial-Based Highly Isolated MIMO Antenna for Portable Wireless Applications" Electronics 7, no. 10: 267. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics7100267
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