Design and development of MIMO antennas for WiGig terminals

Shoaib, S., Shoaib, N., Y. Khattak, R. Y., Shoaib, I., Ur Rehman, M. and Yang, X. (2019) Design and development of MIMO antennas for WiGig terminals. Electronics, 8(12), 1548. (doi: 10.3390/electronics8121548)

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Abstract

This article presents a design for high-gain MIMO antennas with compact geometry. The proposed design is composed of four antennas in MIMO configuration, wherein, each antenna is made up of small units of microstrip patches. The overall geometry is printed on the top layer of the substrate, i.e., Rogers RT-5880 with permittivity of 2.2, permeability of 1.0, dielectric loss of 0.0009, and depth of 0.508 mm. The proposed design covers an area of 29.5 × 61.4 mm2, wherein each antenna covers an area of 11.82 × 25.28 mm2. The dimensions of the microstrip lines in each MIMO element were optimized to achieve a good impedance matching. The design is resonating at 61 GHz, with a wide practical bandwidth of more than 7 GHz, thereby covering IEEE 802.11ad WiGig (58−65 GHz). The average value of gain ranges from 9.45 to 13.6 dBi over the entire frequency bandwidth whereas, the average value of efficiency ranges from 55.5% to 84.3%. The proposed design attains a compact volume, wide bandwidth, and good gain and efficiency performances, which makes it suitable for WiGig terminals.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:This research work is a part of the project titled “Design and Fabrication of 5G MIMO Antenna for Mobile Communication”, funded by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan, under Grant no. 1319.
Keywords:MIMO, array, high gain, WiGig, millimeter wave.
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Ur Rehman, Dr Masood
Creator Roles:
Ur Rehman, M.Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review and editing
Authors: Shoaib, S., Shoaib, N., Y. Khattak, R. Y., Shoaib, I., Ur Rehman, M., and Yang, X.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Autonomous Systems and Connectivity
Journal Name:Electronics
Publisher:MDPI
ISSN:2079-9292
ISSN (Online):2079-9292
Published Online:16 December 2019
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2019 The Authors
First Published:First published in Electronics 8(12): 1548
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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