Dual Band-Notched UWB MIMO Antenna

Jian-Feng Li, Duo-Long Wu, Yan-Jie Wu Gary Zhang

School of Physics of Optoelectronic Engineering, School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University
Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Guangdong, China Zhanggh@gdut.edu.cn
li.jf01@gdut.edu.cn
edlwu@gdut.edu.cn

Abstract—A compact dual band-notched ultra-wideband gbw=0.5

aw=9
(UWB) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna is Metal on the front side Ground
designed. A second-order notched band with uniform Branch

al=14
Metal on the back side gbl=16
performance for 5.15–5.825 GHz is achieved, which is because Element 1 Element 2
the LQWHUSOD\EHWZHHQDȜRSHQ-end slot anGDȜSDUDVLWLF Parasitic strip 1 Parasitic strip 2 f
aw/2

VWULS $  Ȝ open-end slot is also applied for the 3.3-3.7 GHz pl pw
reject band. The two slots connected together at their open end, y Slot 1_1 Slot 1_2 fw/2

2.5
l2 sl1
and that can help to get the whole UWB band. A bandwidth with Unit: mm 0.4
Slot 2_2 sl2
Slot 2_1

gl =6.3
z
|S11_ ”-10 dB, |S21_ ”-17 dB and frequency ranged from 3.1 to x 0.3 fw sl3
Port 1 50¡microstrip line Port 2
10.9GHz, excluding the two rejected bands, is achieved.
gw=35
Figure 1 Structure of the proposed UWB MIMO antenna
Keywords—MIMO antenna; UWB antenna; diversity antenna
one with width of 0.4mm is named slot 1_1 or slot 1_2, the
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) other one with width of 0.3mm is called slot 2_1 or slot 2_2,
Ultra-wideband (UWB) system can resistant against and they are connected together at their open end.
frequency selective fading but UWB system suffers from
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
multipathfading, thus the development ofUWB technology is
restrained. Meanwhile, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) The proposed MIMO UWB antenna is fabricated, and the
technology has attracting major interests for its abilities to photographs are shown in Fig. 2. The simulated and measured
enhance the data rate and reliability in rich scattering S-parameters are shown in Fig.3, with |S11| ”-10 dB and |S21_”
environments [1]. Inrecent years, UWB MIMO technology is -17 dB, the bandwidth of the proposed UWB MIMO antenna
a rising research field to solve themulti-path fading and low covers 3.1-10.9 GHz excluding the two rejected bands, and
SNR problems of UWB system [2], and selective fading uniform reject performance for 5.15-5.825GHz is achieved.
problem of MIMO system also canbe improved.
To minimize the potential EM interferences between UWB
MIMO system and the narrowband systems, various band-
notched methods were used. TheUWB MIMO antenna in [3]
rejected the WLAN 5.5 GHz, and UWBantenna in [4] showed
a rejection in 4.75-6.12 GHz. The high isolation UWB MIMO (a) front view, (b) back view
antenna obtained dual rejection bands in [5]. But, high isolation Figure 2 Photographs of the fabricated UWB MIMO antenna
UWB MIMOantenna with dual notched band is still difficult 0
|S11| |S12|_Simualted |S11| |S12|_Measured
to be obtained, especially forthe second-order notched band.
2:1 VSWR
S_Parameter(dB)

-10
In this paper, a compact dual band-notched UWB MIMO
antenna with a second-order notched band of 5.15–5.825 GHz -20
and high isolation for the whole UWB band is proposed. The -30
simulated and measured results are in a good agreement.
-40
II. ANTENNA DESIGN
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
The proposed MIMO UWB antenna consists of symmetric Frequency (GHz)
antenna element 1 and 2, as shown in Fig.1. With size of Figure 3 Measured and simulated S-parameters of the proposed antenna
9×16.5 mm2, the antenna element is printed on the front side of A. Improvement of Bandwidth
the FR4 substrate , which with dimensions 35 × 23 × 1.6 mm3 Rectangular monopole antenna usually is applied for UWB
and relative permittivity Hr = 4.4. Two symmetric parasitic operation band, and our design is also based on this kind of
strips and the ground plane (gl =6.3mm, gw=35mm) are printed antenna. The variation of f has great effect on |S11| curve,
on the other side of the FR4 substrate, and the length of the especially for the frequencies at about 7GHz. But the high
parasitic strip is pl PP ZKLFKLVDERXW  ȜDW *+] frequencies of UWB band still not are covered. Slot 1-1 and
There are two kinds of slots are etched into the ground plane, slot 2-1 share one open end, slot 1-2 and slot 2-2 share one

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 open end too, the current distribution of ground plane is Co-pol_3.2GHz Co-pol_4.5GHz Co-pol_8.0GHz
changed, and that FDQKHOSWKHDQWHQQDHOHPHQWH[FLWHVWKHȜ Cross-pol 3.2GHz Cross-pol 4.5GHz Cross-pol 8.0GHz
90
resonant model at about 10.8GHz successfully. Therefore, the 0 0
90

135 45
high cut-off frequency of |S11| goes toward the higher -20 -20
135 45

frequencies to cover the whole UWB operation band. -40 -40

(dB)

(dB)
180 0 180 0
B. Study of Notched Performance -40 -40
The length of slot 1_1 is sl1 =12.5mm, which is about 1/4 Ȝ -20 -20
at 3.5GHz, the slot makes the input impedance singular for the 0
225 315
0
225 315

frequencies at about 3.5GHz, and the notched band of 3.3- (a) x-z plane,
270

(b) y-z plane.

270

3.7GHz is obtained. The length of the length of the slot 2-1 is Figure 5 Measured radiation patterns of the proposed MIMO antenna
(Sl2+ Sl3+ Sl4 PPZKLFKLVDERXWȜDWDERXW GHz.
But the notched band produced by slot 2-1 cannot cover the
whole 5.5 GHz notched band. Thus, symmetrical parasitic
strips 1 and 2 with length of ȜDWDERXW*+]DUHDSSOLHG.
The two notched bands produced by the slot 2-1 and parasitic
strip 1 are coupled together to shape a single notched band
with second-order characteristics, uniform performance within
the reject band of 5.15-5.825GHz is achieved.
As a proof of above conclusion, current distributions of the
MIMO antenna without the ground branch are displayed in
Fig.4, element 1is excited, and element 2 is terminated with a
50 ȍ load. For the cases of 3.5 and 5.7 GHz, the currents
mainly distribute on slot 1_1 and slot 2_1, respectively. For the
frequencies at about 5.3 GHz, the currents distributing on the
parasitic strip is strong.
(a) f=3.5GHz
(b) f=5.3GHz (c) (c) f=5.7GHz
Figure 4 Current distributions of the MIMO antenna without ground
branch (back view)
C. Radiation Characteristics and Diversity Performance
For our design, a protruded ground branch is applied. By
adjusting the size of the protruded ground branch, the isolation
within the whole UWB operation band but the two notched
band is improved.
The normalized radiation patterns of the proposed antenna
at 3.2, 4.5 and 8.0 GHz are plotted in Fig.5. The MIMO
antenna has quasi-omnidirectional pattern in the H-plane (xz
plane) and dipole-like pattern in the E-plane (yz plane), which
is typical for monopole antennas.
The MEG ratios are calculated [6], except for the two reject
bands, the maximum value of the ratios is smaller 1.0 dB. ȡe
can be derived from the following formula[7]˖
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S
iiSij  S
jiS jj [7] + 3DXO 7KH VLJQL¿FDQFH RI UDGLDWLRQ HI¿FLHQFLHV ZKHQ XVLQJ 6-
Ueij 2 2 2 2
| (1- Sii - S ji )(1- S jj - Sij )K radiK radj |1/ 2
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0.04 ȡe12
Correlation coefficient
ȡe21
0.03
0.02
0.01
0.00
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Frequency (GHz)
Figure 6 Correlation coefficient of the proposed UWB MIMO antenna
Based on the measured data, the ȡe is calculated and shown in
Fig.6. Within the whole operation band, ȡe is smaller than 0.01.
IV. CONCLUSION
A compact dual band-notched UWB MIMO antenna has
been presented and studied. Excluding the two rejected
bands(3.3-3.7 GHz and 5.15-5.825 GHz), the |S11_ ” -10 dB
impedance bandwidth of the proposed UWB MIMO antenna is
3.1 to 10.9 GHz, and the isolation is larger than 17 dB. All the
results indicate the proposed UWB MIMO antenna is good
candidate for UWB MIMO systems.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by Postdoctoral Science
Foundation of China (402140011), Guangzhou Science and
Technology Project 㸦 12C42081659 㸧 and Application of
Engineering Technology of the Chip and System of the Internet
of Things of Guangdong Province (14ZK0035).
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