Design of Dual Band MIMO Antenna For Wlan/Wimax Application
Design of Dual Band MIMO Antenna For Wlan/Wimax Application
Design of Dual Band MIMO Antenna For Wlan/Wimax Application
and Communication Technology (IJRECT 2016) Vol. 3, Issue 4 Oct. - Dec. 2016 ISSN : 2349 - 3143 (Print)
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Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract
Recently, there is a demand to increase the data rate of existing wireless communication systems. The application of diversity techniques,
most commonly assuming two antennas in a mobile terminal, can enhance the data rate and reliability without sacrificing additional
spectrum or transmitted power in rich scattering environments. MULTIPLE-INPUTMULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) technology has
attracted attention in modern wireless communication systems Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems transmit the same
power using multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver thereby increasing the channel capacity without the need of additional
bandwidth or power. In this paper a novel microstrip feed bowtie antenna for WLAN/ WiMAX operating at the frequency range of
2.3719-2.5839 and 4.8658-5.4368 is designed. The proposed antenna consists of bowtie patches loaded with slots above and below
the substrate, The microstrip feed is designed in such a way that the two strips are narrower at the bottom and wider at the middle
and again becomes narrower . Simulated impedance bandwidth of the frequency 2.3719-2.5839 and 4.8658-5.4368 is 8.4% and 22%
respectively. The proposed antenna is designed in the ANSYS High Frequency Electromagnetics Suite(HFSS)
Keywords
MIMO, Bowtie, WLAN, WiMAX, Impedance Bandwidth
(b)
Fig 1:Structure of the single band MIMO antenna (a)Top view Fig. 5 : shows the reflection coefficient for the dual band MIMO
(b) Bottom view antenna
The designed antenna is an MIMO antenna which consists of Reflection coefficient S11 of the proposed dual band bowtie
two antennas , antenna 1 is present on the top of the substrate antenna is shown in Fig 5. Simulated impedance bandwidth
and antenna 2 is present on the bottom of the substrate. Bowtie of the frequency band for 2.3719-2.5839 and 4.8658-5.4362 are
microstrip antennas have become attractive candidates in the 8.4% and 22.8% respectively.
present day communication due to their size that is smaller than
the size of the conventional rectangular patch although they have 2. Radiation Pattern
similar characteristics and operations at the same frequency. The radiation pattern is a graphical depictions of the relative field
A bowtie antenna is otherwise called as butterfly antenna or strength transmitted from or received by the antenna and shows
a biconical antenna. The bowtie antenna is a simplied two- side lobes or backlobes .As antenna radiates in space often several
dimensional structure using two triangular shapes separated by curves are necessary to describe the antenna .The proposed antenna
a small gap that resembles the shape of a bowtie. The bowtie is circularly polarized. If the electric field vector propagates in
antenna concentrates the energy and provides a good localization the clockwise direction it is called as the right hand circular
of electric eld inside the feed gap, providing a strong near-eld polarization, If the electric field vector propagates in the anti
enhancement. The substrate used here is FR-4 substrate whose clockwise direction it is called left hand circular polarization The
dielectric constant is 4.4 and the thickness of the substrate is right hand circular polarization and left hand circular polarization
1.6mm.The overall dimension of the substrate is 63x63x1.6.A at 2.5 GHz is shown in Fig 6a and 6b.Similarly Fig 6c and 6d
single band MIMO antenna without any slot on the patch is shown shown the right hand polarization and left hand polarization at
in the fig1.The bowtie antenna has an arm length of L1 and arm 5.15 at phi equal to zero degree.
width of W1.The optimized parameter of the antenna in accordance
to the configuration in Fig1 are asfollows:L1=17mm,W1=14mm,L
f1
=6mm,Lf2=21mm;Lf3=11mm;Lf4=5mm,Lf5 =7mm,Lf6 =1mmFig
1a and Fig 1b shows the dual band MIMO antenna etched with
slots in the radiating bowtie patches. One Slot is etched on the top
in one arm of the bowtie antenna and another slot is etched in the
bottom on the other arm of the bowtie antenna. After various trials
the length and width of the slot is optimized to be 10 mm and 0.5
mm respectively. By etching slots in the edge of the bowtie dual
resonance takes place ,i.e antenna resonates at two frequencies
2.5 GHz and 5.15 GHz. Similarly slots are etched on the radiating
patches of the substrate found below the substrate. (a)
1. Reflection Coefficient
S11 represents how much power is reflected from the antenna and
hence is known as reflection coefficient .S11= -10 dB implies that
if 3 dB of the power is delivered to the antenna then -7dB is the
reflected power. For an antenna to operate efficiently the return
loss should be less than 10dB. .
(b)
IV. Conclusion
A compact dual band MIMO antenna fed by microstrip line has
(c) been presented .The slots are etched on each arm of the bowie
antenna present above and below the substrate to excite the
antenna with extra frequency there by satisfying the dual band
nature .The structure of the antenna is simple and easy to fabricate
since microstrip feed is used. Since the FR-4 substrate is used
as the dielectric material the proposed antenna is cost effective
.Since the antenna is circularly polarized it is more resistant to
signal degradation due to atmospheric conditions and has higher
link reliability. Combining the features of MIMO antenna with
circular polarization makes the antenna more attractive for wireless
applications like WLAN and WiMAX .To design an antenna to
resonate at multiple frequency might be the future work of this
paper.
(d)
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