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Abstract—A high isolation two-element MIMO antenna array that the MIMO antenna array has a high isolation of 33 dB in
is proposed by using embedded meta-material structure. The term of the transmission coefficients.
proposed meta-material is comprised of two layers at different
level and the two layers are connected together by shorted pins. II. CONFIGURABTION OF THE MIMO ANTENNA
Five proposed meta-material cells are embedded in the FR-4 The configuration of the MIMO antenna array is shown in
substrate, which is installed between the two antenna elements, to
Fig.1. The MIMO antenna is comprised of two identical
improve the isolation of the two-element MIMO antenna array.
rectangle patch antennas, five meta-material cells. The MIMO
The proposed MIMO antenna array with meta-material isolation
elements are created by the HFSS and its performance is also antenna array is printed on a FR-4 substrate with a relative
investigated in detail. The experimental results show that the permittivity of 4.4, a loss tangent of 0.02 and a thickness of 1.6
proposed meta-material cells can provide a mutual coupling mm. The distance between the two patch antennas is 0.13 and
reduction of 18 dB in terms of the transmission coefficients. the patch antennas are fed by using coaxial feed lines. The
designed decoupling structure is a two-layer meta-material.
Keywords—Multi-meta-meterial structure; high isolation The upper layer is a T-shaped stub structure which is
antenna array; MIMO antenna; mutual coupling reduction embedded in the FR-4 substrate, which has a distance of
0.1mm to the top surface of the substrate. The lower layer is
I. INTRODUCTION comprised of two inverted U-shaped patches, which is
embedded in the FR-4 substrate with a distance of 0.8mm to
MIMO technique is a potential application for next- the bottom of the FR-4 substrate. The upper layer and the lower
generation mobile communication systems due to it can layer are connected by using two shorted pins. The proposed
improve the channel capacity and the quality of the structure of the two-layer meta-material is shown in Fig.2. The
communication [1-3]. Recently, the MIMO antenna has been dimensions of the proposed two-element MIMO antenna with
becoming a hot topic for portable terminal applications [1-10].
Since the size of these portable terminals are small, and then
the space of the terminals are limited. If several antennas are
integrated into the portable terminals to form a MIMO antenna
array, the closed installed antennas will increase the mutual
coupling between the antenna elements. The mutual coupling
may deteriorate the quality of the communication and might
reduce the channel capacity [1-11].
Many mutual coupling reduction methods have been
presented to improve the isolation between the antenna
elements, such as neutralization line technology [4],
electromagnetic bandgap [5-8], mush-room like decoupling
structures [9] and meta-material decoupling [9-11]. By using
these decoupling structures, the isolation can be improved in
comparison with the MIMO antenna without these decoupling
structures. However, some of the decoupling structures are Fig. 1 Geometry of the proposed two-element MIMO antenna array
large in size and others are complex in design. In recent years,
the meta-material structures have attracted much more
attention and have been widely studied for various applications.
As a potential application, the meta-material structures have
been applied for antenna array decoupling.
In this paper, a two-element MIMO antenna with high
isolation is proposed. The high isolation is implemented by
using five dual layer meta-material cells which are embedded
into the FR-4 substrate and are installed in the middle of the
two antenna elements. The proposed MIMO antenna array is
investigated by the HFSS and the experimental results show
Fig. 2 Configuration of the proposed two-layer meta-material cell