Tachism: Tri-Port Antenna with Triple Notching Characteristic and High Isolation System for MIMO Application

Abstract

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) KAYI-shaped and common KITE-shaped ground plane tri-port antenna is proposed. The proposed research work has a small size of (30 × 30 × 1.6 mm3). The MIMO antenna elements are placed in a KAYI-shaped (Y-shaped) with a symmetric phase shift of 120∘ between the nearby MIMO antennas element improving the isolation. The antenna’s gain is more than 5 dBi for the entire bands of WiMax, WLAN, and X-band satellite communication. The suggested work includes notches at 3.2 GHz, 5.2 GHz, and 8.9 GHz, respectively. The notching characteristics are made possible by L-shaped slits for the WiMax band, the inverted U-shaped slot for WLAN, while the third is created by the interaction between the L-shaped and U-shaped notching elements. Results were measured after making the prototype antenna on the FR-4 substrate. The proposed antenna has good impedance matching for 2–20 GHz and three notching characteristics with high isolation among the MIMO elements. Mean effective gain (MEG), envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), and total active reflection coefficient (TARC) are the diversity metrics of MIMO antennas which are in good comparison to the proposed antenna. The antenna is a good candidate for deployment in wireless communication and MIMO applications.