Four-port MIMO antenna loaded with FSS in FR2 band for wireless applications
摘要
This work reports a four-port MIMO antenna integrated with a novel wideband frequency-selective surface (FSS). The proposed MIMO antenna is fabricated on Rogers-dielectric with permittivity 2.20 and thickness of 0.254 mm with an overall area of 30 × 36 mm2. The radiating patch is achieved by merging three ring-hexagonal geometries, which are fed by an asymmetric tapered transmission line with a partial-rectangular ground printed on another surface with a pair of rectangular slots and an open-ended slot beneath the feedline. A novel de-coupling structure achieves isolation of more than 10.0 dB in MIMO configuration with a pair of radiating elements placed mirrored-adjacent sequence and the other pair placed oppositely. A novel 7 × 7 frequency-selective-surface of dimension 56 mm × 56 mm with an operating bandwidth of 10–43.30 GHz is also fabricated on the same substrate as an antenna and is placed 10.0 mm apart from the MIMO-antenna, which enhances the average peak-realized-gain by 8.0 dBi. The MIMO antenna achieves − 10.0 dB bandwidth of 3.45–7.25 GHz (Band-A) and 19.70–82.10 GHz (Band-B). The MIMO-FSS antenna achieves better diversity parameter with ECCM−FSS