An Ultra-Wideband Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna With MIMO Configuration
Mohammad Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary
Abstract
A Coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed multi-permittivity and stair shaped dual rectangular dielectric resonator antenna (RDRA) has been designed for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications in multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. Isolation improvement has been obtained by means of modified CPW feeding and a metallic diagonal stub in the proposed structure. The simulated results have been validated by prototype designing and performing measurements. The electrical size of the proposed antenna configuration is 1.12λ <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> × 1.12λ <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> × 0.25λ <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> . The measured input impedance bandwidth of the antenna is 153.6% (1.6-12.2 GHz) with a minimum of 25 dB isolation between the radiators in the operating band. Measured results illustrate the satisfactory performance of proposed UWB MIMO antenna with a low envelope correlation coefficient and low mutual coupling throughout the desired frequency range.