4-Element Concentric Pentagonal Slot-Line-Based Ultra-Wide Tuning Frequency Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna System

In this communication, a novel, compact, ultrawideband tuning, concentric pentagonal slot-line-based frequency-reconfigurable multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system is presented. It consists of a four-element antenna design on a commercially available FR-4 substrate with the dimensions of $60\times 120\times 1.56$ mm3. All the antenna elements are planar in structure, which are etched out from ground plane. Frequency reconfigurability is achieved using varactor diodes by reactively loading the antennas. Each capacitance value of the varactor diode results in the triband operation. Proper capacitive reactance loading enables the antenna to resonate over a wide frequency band. The proposed MIMO antenna system is tuned over an ultrawide frequency band, and a smooth variation of the resonance frequencies is observed from 1.32 to 1.49 and 1.75 to 5.2 GHz. Moreover, the unique feature of the proposed antenna system is the effectiveness of reactively loading the slot over all the resonating bands. The proposed antenna system is compact and suitable to be used in wireless handheld devices and mobile terminals for cognitive radio applications. The envelope correlation coefficient did not exceed 0.186 in the entire operating band of the MIMO antenna operation. The maximum measured gain of the MIMO antenna is 4.5 dBi with a maximum efficiency of 81%.

[1]  Joseph Mitola,et al.  Cognitive Radio Architecture Evolution , 2009, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[2]  Lev Pazin,et al.  Reconfigurable Rotated-T Slot Antenna for Cognitive Radio Systems , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[3]  Z. H. Hu,et al.  Wide tunable balanced antenna for mobile terminals and its potential for MIMO applications , 2011, 2011 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference.

[4]  Mohammad S. Sharawi,et al.  Annular Slot-Based Miniaturized Frequency-Agile MIMO Antenna System , 2017, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[5]  Mohammad S. Sharawi,et al.  Printed MIMO Antenna Engineering , 2014 .

[6]  A. N. Kulkarni,et al.  Frequency Reconfigurable Microstrip Loop Antenna Covering LTE Bands With MIMO Implementation and Wideband Microstrip Slot Antenna all for Portable Wireless DTV Media Player , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[7]  Tsenchieh Chiu,et al.  Dual-Band Reconfigurable Antenna Design Using Slot-Line With Branch Edge , 2015, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[8]  L. Jofre,et al.  RF MEMS Integrated Frequency Reconfigurable Annular Slot Antenna , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[9]  T. I. Yuk,et al.  Frequency-reconfigurable multiple-input–multiple-output monopole antenna with wide-continuous tuning range , 2016 .

[10]  Hui Li,et al.  A Simple Compact Reconfigurable Slot Antenna With a Very Wide Tuning Range , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[11]  Tae-Yeoul Yun,et al.  Simultaneous Frequency and Isolation Reconfigurable MIMO PIFA Using PIN Diodes , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[12]  R. A. Sadeghzadeh,et al.  Completely Independent Multi-Ultrawideband and Multi-Dual-Band Frequency Reconfigurable Annular Sector Slot Antenna (FR-ASSA) , 2017, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[13]  Liping Han,et al.  Compact Frequency-Reconfigurable Slot Antenna for Wireless Applications , 2016, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[14]  Dipankar Raychaudhuri,et al.  Future Directions in Cognitive Radio Network , 2009 .

[15]  Hui Li,et al.  An Electrically Small Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna With a Wide Tuning Range , 2011, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[16]  C. Sim,et al.  A Frequency Reconfigurable Half Annular Ring Slot Antenna Design , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[17]  Ross D. Murch,et al.  A Port and Frequency Reconfigurable MIMO Slot Antenna for WLAN Applications , 2016, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[18]  Sonia Sharma,et al.  Frequency Reconfigurable U-Slot Antenna for SDR Application , 2015 .

[19]  Peter Hall,et al.  Wide tunable dual-band reconfigurable antenna , 2009 .

[20]  K. Sarabandi,et al.  Dual-band reconfigurable antenna with a very wide tunability range , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[21]  Yi Huang,et al.  A Transparent Dielectric-Loaded Reconfigurable Antenna With a Wide Tuning Range , 2016, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[22]  Huiqing Zhai,et al.  Frequency-Reconfigurable Bow-Tie Antenna With a Wide Tuning Range , 2014, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[23]  Yi Huang,et al.  Compact Low-Profile Dual-Port Single Wideband Planar Inverted-F MIMO Antenna , 2013, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[24]  Mohammad S. Sharawi,et al.  Wide-band frequency agile MIMO antenna system with wide tunability range , 2016 .