A Two-Element UWB-MIMO Antenna With Quad Narrowband Frequency Rejection Characteristics

A Two-Element UWB-MIMO Antenna with Quad
Narrowband Frequency Rejection Characteristics

Kai Yu,Yuanyuan Kong, Yingsong Li*
College of Information and Communications Engineering,
Harbin Engineering University,
Harbin 150001, China
*liyingsong@ieee.org
Abstract—A two-element ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple-

input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with quad II. ANTENNA CONFIGURATION
narrowband frequency rejection characteristics is presented in This paper designed a two-element UWB-MIMO
this communication. A pair of L-shaped slots (LSSs) and a pair antenna with quad narrowband frequency rejection
of square ring short stub loaded resonators (SRSSLRs) are characteristics. The detail configuration and the dimensions
utilized to produce four notched bands, including 3.1GHz- of the UWB-MIMO antenna are given in Fig.1. The UWB-
3.7GHz for WiMAX, 4.2GHz-4.7GHz for C-band, 5.6GHz-5.9 MIMO antenna is printed on a substrate with a relative
GHz for WLAN and 7.9GHz-8.3GHz for X-band applications.
The proposed antenna consisting of two identical UWB
permittivity of İr =2.65 and a loss tangent of į=0.001, and it
antennas has a small size of 40×40×0.5 mm3. The simulated includes two identical fan-shaped UWB antenna elements,
results show that it covers entire UWB band except the four which are set in parallel.
frequency stop-bands with respect to VSWR.
Keywords—MIMO antenna; quad notched-band; SRSSLR;
UWB antenna
I. INTRODUCTION
Since ultra-wideband (UWB) technology have many
advantages, such as high speed data, small size, low cost,
low complexity, its outlook is getting a wide range of
attention [1]. To construct such system, many UWB
antennas have been designed and manufactured in a recent
period. Although UWB technology has many advantages, it
still has many issues because several narrowband systems
are used in UWB band, such as WLAN (5.725—5.825GHz),
WiMAX (3.3-3.69GHz) and X-band(7.9-8.25GHz). Aiming
to reduce the potential interferences between the UWB and
narrowband systems, the design of UWB antennas with (a)Top Layer
band notch is amazing. Recently, many notched UWB
antennas are reported with only single [2], dual [3] or three
[4] notch bands, making its prospect is limited. In addition,
the multipath fading and capacity embarrassment are
another urgent challenges, which can greatly affect the
performance of communication systems. A lot of methods
have been presented to reduce the influence of multipath
fading and to increase the capacity. The multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the most satisfactory
techniques [5]. Therefore, the research on the UWB antenna
with MIMO technology has a very broad prospect in the
modern communication system.
In this paper, a UWB-MIMO antenna with quad band-
notched characteristics is proposed based on an original
UWB antenna in [6], which is realized by using a pair of
LSSs and a pair of SRSSLRs in [7]. The proposed antenna
can not only provide four designated reject bands, but also
has a high isolation. The size of the antenna is 40×40×0.5
(b)Bottom Layer
mm3, which is compact for MIMO-UWB communication Fig. 1 Geometry of two-element UWB-MIMO antenna with quad
applications. narrowband frequency rejection characteristics
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The top layer shown in Fig.1(a) contains a pair of LSSs The radiation patterns of the proposed UWB-MIMO
which is etched on the two symmetric fan-shaped radiation antenna at 4GHz, 7GHz and 10GHz are demonstrated in Fig.
patches and a pair of SRSSLRs which are settled closed to 4. It can be seen that the radiation patterns are all
the 50 Ohm microstrip feeding lines to give four desired omnidirectional in both XOZ (E) and YOZ (H) planes.
notch bands. The bottom layer shown in Fig. 1(b) with a
netted slot is to achieve a high isolation.
III. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
The VSWR & return loss of the proposed UWB-MIMO
antenna is depicted in Fig. 2, which is obtained by using
HFSS. It can be seen that the UWB-MIMO antenna covers
entire UWB band (3.1-10.6GHz) with a VSWR less than 2
or return loss less than -10 dB, and it has four rejection
bands operating at 3.1GHz-3.7GHz, 4.2GHz-4.7GHz,
5.6GHz-5.9GHz and 7.9GHz-8.3GHz. The proposed UWB-
MIMO antenna can achieve a high isolation, which is less
(a) (b)
than -19.3dB, and in most of the UWB band is less than - Fig. 4 Radiation patterns: (a) YOZ plane, (b) XOZ plane.
20dB. General speaking, the isolation is less than -20dB
from 3.1 GHz to 12GHz except 5.4 GHz nearby. IV. CONCLUSION
A compact two-element UWB-MIMO antenna with
quad frequency rejection band characteristics has been
proposed and investigated numerically. The antenna can
provide a bandwidth of 135% for VSWR<2 except the four
notch bands. A pair of LSSs and a pair of SRSSLRs were
employed to create four band notches to reject the
narrowband signals from 3.1GHz-3.7GHz, 4.2GHz-4.7GHz,
5.6GHz-5.9GHz and 7.9GHz-8.3GHz. The further results
will be included in the presentation.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This paper is funded by the International Exchange
Fig. 2 VSWR & return loss of the proposed antenna Program of Harbin Engineering University for Innovation-
The impedance and the gain of the proposed UWB- oriented Talents Cultivation. This paper is also supported by
MIMO antenna is illustrated in Fig. 3. It is found that the International Science & Technology Cooperation Program
real of the antenna is about 50 Ohm and the imaginary is of China (2014DFR10240) and the Fundamental Research
around 0, which means that the antenna has a good Funds for the Central Universities (HEUCFD1433).
impedance matching in UWB band. At the WiMAX, C-
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Abstract—A two-element ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple-

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