A 3-Port Antenna for MIMO applications
Conference: INICA 2007 - International ITG-Conference on Antennas
03/28/2007 - 03/30/2007 at Munich, Germany
Proceedings: INICA 2007
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Oikonomopoulos-Zachos, Christos; Rembold, Bernhard (Institute of High frequency Technology, RWTH Aachen University)
Abstract:
As well known, the capacity of a radio frequency channel can be enlarged by Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system. By using identical antennas with the same orientation, a certain antenna distance must be respected for achieving the full MIMO gain. On mobile terminals, usually only a limited surface area for antennas is available. Therefore multiport antennas with small dimensions are requested, which offer sufficient decoupling between the ports. The present paper describes a 3-port antenna, operating at 5.6GHz, which can be used e.g. for MIMO-WLAN applications. The design is outlined and simulated and measured results are given.