Research Articles
Isolation improvement of compact LTE MIMO terminal using combination of neutralisation line and modified ground structure
Authors:
HS Singh ,
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, IN
About HS
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
RM Shubair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
About RM
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Abstract
A multi-wideband MIMO antenna is presented for LTE MIMO terminals. The proposed antenna covers LTE700, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS, LTE2500, and Wi-Fi frequency bands. The multi-antenna elements are placed at the top two corners of printed circuit board (PCB) in the mirror image position. Each antenna element consists of a driven element and a shorted radiating element. To make the compact antenna structure, radiating element is meandered, folded, and shorted to the ground through copper wire. The size of each radiator is 15 × 25 × 4 mm3. Further, a combination of neutralisation line and modified ground structure is designed and deployed between radiating elements to reduce the mutual coupling between them. According to the measurement results of the fabricated antenna prototype, the isolation between two antenna ports is better than -12 dB over the operating frequency band. The simulated and measured results are found in close agreement. Moreover, to investigate the performance of the proposed antenna on the real application platform, mobile environment and user proximity analyses are carried out. Besides, total radiated power (TRP), channel capacity loss (CCL) and specific absorption rate (SAR) to peak location spacing ratio (SPLSR) are calculated and found well below the limit of Federal Communication Commission (FCC) standard.
How to Cite:
Singh, H. and Shubair, R., 2020. Isolation improvement of compact LTE MIMO terminal using combination of neutralisation line and modified ground structure. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 48(3), pp.251–263. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jnsfsr.v48i3.9158
Published on
01 Dec 2020.
Peer Reviewed
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