A Decoupling Network for Resonant and Non-Resonant Sub-1 GHz MIMO Mobile Terminal Antennas with Improved Compactness and Efficiency

  • Wai Loon Cheor
  • , Azremi Abdullah Al-Hadi
  • , Ping Jack Soh
  • , Mohd Faizal Jamlos
  • , Ahmed Mohamed Elshirkasi
  • , Xiaoming Chen
  • , Prayoot Akkaraekthalin

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Abstract

In this work, the design procedure of a new decoupling network for different antennas is presented for mobile terminals operating in the Sub-1 GHz band (from 0.698 to 0.96 GHz). To evaluate its applicability for different resonant and non-resonant antenna types, two antenna elements have been chosen to be decoupled using the proposed decoupling network: a printed inverted-F antenna and a capacitive coupling element antenna. Simulation and measurement results showed that the decoupling network offer promising improvements in terms of impedance matching, port isolation, envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), and total efficiency. In addition, the antennas are also investigated with the ergodic capacity, multiplexing efficiency, gain, and diversity gain (both calculated using maximal ratio combining technique). Due to the contribution of the decoupling network, the ECC of both types of multiple antennas are less than 0.3, with a 30 % improvement in total efficiency and an inter-element spacing miniaturization of 34 %.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9405996
Pages (from-to)59475-59485
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Access
Volume9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Decoupling networks
  • low frequency
  • mobile terminal antennas
  • multi-input multi-output
  • mutual coupling

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