Novel Printed MIMO Antenna With Pattern and Polarization Diversity

In this letter, a novel compact antenna system for diversity/multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) application is proposed for WLAN (5.8 GHz) band with good isolation between the two input ports. The novelty of the proposed MIMO antenna system is, though the resonators are physically separated by a distance of 0.029λ ( λ is the free-space wavelength at 5.8 GHz) equal to the thickness of the substrate (1.524 mm) used for the fabrication of the antenna system, the isolation between them is enough for practical application of the antenna for MIMO. The MIMO system possesses good pattern diversity and polarization diversity with good isolation without the use of any isolation enhancement techniques. Moreover, the concept can be extended to the realization of an MIMO antenna system to operate at other frequencies with suitable scaling and optimization of geometrical parameters of the antenna topology.

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