Mutual Coupling Reduction In Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays Using Simple Microstrip Resonator

Abstract

Abstract In this paper a novel ladder resonator is introduced to decrease mutual coupling effect between two microstrip patch antennas. Applied patch antennas are operating at 2.45 GHz frequency (ISM band), which specially used for multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The edge-to-edge distance between two microstrip patch antennas is 0.05 λ. The proposed ladder resonator impressively blocks the surface current between two patch antennas at the operating frequency, which results in mutual effect reduction. The proposed configuration has been fabricated and tested. Scattering parameters with and without of proposed resonator has been investigated. The results show that, the proposed configuration increases isolation between two microstrip patch antennas about 42dB.