A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.

This paper presents a four-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with compact size, wideband operation, and high isolation characteristics. The wideband performance is achieved by generating two adjacent resonances, which are respectively produced by a half-wavelength slot and a metasur...

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Main Authors: Anh Tran-Tuan, Thao Hoang-Thi-Phuong, Yem Vu-Van, Hung Tran-Huy
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321602
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author Anh Tran-Tuan
Thao Hoang-Thi-Phuong
Yem Vu-Van
Hung Tran-Huy
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Thao Hoang-Thi-Phuong
Yem Vu-Van
Hung Tran-Huy
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description This paper presents a four-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with compact size, wideband operation, and high isolation characteristics. The wideband performance is achieved by generating two adjacent resonances, which are respectively produced by a half-wavelength slot and a metasurface (MS). Four MIMO elements are arranged in a 2 [Formula: see text] 2 configuration with zero spacing between the MIMO elements to achieve the compact size feature. For mutual coupling reduction, the adjacent elements are positioned so that their polarizations are perpendicular. Meanwhile, the coupling between the opposite elements is suppressed with the aid of shorting pins. The final design has compact size of 1.08 [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] 0.89 [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] 0.07 [Formula: see text] and center-to-center element spacing of 0.35 [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the free-space wavelength at 5.2 GHz. The measured operating bandwidth, in which the reflection and transmission coefficients are respectively smaller than -10 and -20 dB, is from 4.9 to 5.8 GHz. Across this band, the proposed design has peak broadside gain of 4.5 dBi and good MIMO diversity performance. Compared to other related works, the proposed design has advantages of wideband, high isolation, while keeping a compact size characteristic.
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spelling doaj-art-69760d4934f744bb95e7b7fe9a0bf6592025-08-20T03:08:27ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01205e032160210.1371/journal.pone.0321602A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.Anh Tran-TuanThao Hoang-Thi-PhuongYem Vu-VanHung Tran-HuyThis paper presents a four-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with compact size, wideband operation, and high isolation characteristics. The wideband performance is achieved by generating two adjacent resonances, which are respectively produced by a half-wavelength slot and a metasurface (MS). Four MIMO elements are arranged in a 2 [Formula: see text] 2 configuration with zero spacing between the MIMO elements to achieve the compact size feature. For mutual coupling reduction, the adjacent elements are positioned so that their polarizations are perpendicular. Meanwhile, the coupling between the opposite elements is suppressed with the aid of shorting pins. The final design has compact size of 1.08 [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] 0.89 [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] 0.07 [Formula: see text] and center-to-center element spacing of 0.35 [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the free-space wavelength at 5.2 GHz. The measured operating bandwidth, in which the reflection and transmission coefficients are respectively smaller than -10 and -20 dB, is from 4.9 to 5.8 GHz. Across this band, the proposed design has peak broadside gain of 4.5 dBi and good MIMO diversity performance. Compared to other related works, the proposed design has advantages of wideband, high isolation, while keeping a compact size characteristic.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321602
spellingShingle Anh Tran-Tuan
Thao Hoang-Thi-Phuong
Yem Vu-Van
Hung Tran-Huy
A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.
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title A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.
title_full A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.
title_fullStr A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.
title_full_unstemmed A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.
title_short A simple technique to improve performance of four-port wideband MIMO antenna using shorting pins.
title_sort simple technique to improve performance of four port wideband mimo antenna using shorting pins
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321602
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