CPW Fed Double T-Shaped Array Antenna with Suppressed Mutual Coupling英文文献资料.docVIP

Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2010, 3, 190-195 doi:10.4236/ijcns.2010.32027 Published Online February 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns/). CPW Fed Double T-Shaped Array Antenna with Suppressed Mutual Coupling A. DANIDEH , A. A. Lotfi NEYESTANAK 1 2* Department of Electrical Engineering, Islamic Azad University (IAU), Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran Department of Electrical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shahr_e_Rey Branch, Tehran, Iran 1 2 E-mail: alexdanideh@, alotfi@iust.ac.ir Received November 6, 2009; revised December 11, 2009; accepted January 16, 2010 Abstract A compact CPW-fed double T-Shaped antenna is proposed for dual-band wireless local area network (WLAN) operations. For the proposed antenna, the -10 dB return loss bandwidth could reach about 25.5% for the 2.4 GHz band and 5.7 % for the 5 GHz band, which meet the required bandwidth specification of WLAN standard. To reduce the mutual coupling and get high isolation between two dual-band antennas, we proposed the novel electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures. When the EBG structure is employed, a -13dB and -30dB mutual coupling reduction is achieved at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz. It shows that the features of small size, uniplanar structure, good radiation characteristics and small mutual coupling are promising for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) applications. Keywords: CPW, T-Shaped Antenna, WLAN, MIMO, Mutual Coupling 1. Introduction (MIMO) systems have also received significant attention for their ability to increase the channel capacity. Wireless communications, especially the wireless local area network (WLAN) communication, have evolved at astonishing rate during the last decade. Therefore, design of broad dual and multi-band antennas with low-profile, lightweight, flush mounted and single-feed to fit the lim- ited equipment space of