Design of a compact mimo antenna with asymmetric coplanar strip-fed for UWB applications

This article presents a new compact asymmetric coplanar strip -fed UWB MIMO antenna. The UWB MIMO antenna consists of two identical elements which have quarter elliptical ring radiating element with asymmetric coplanar strip-fed. By designing the antenna using asymmetric coplanar strip-fed, the antenna size can be reduced (its size is only 6 x 2.6 cm(2)). The distance between the two antenna elements equals 0.37 (0)-The single antenna element is operated at frequencies from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz with reflection coefficient lower than -10 dB. In addition, the designed antenna elements have less than 15 dB coupling isolation between the two input ports. The diversity performance between two antenna elements such as envelope correlation coefficient and diversity gain are investigated and they are within their allowed limits. This analysis confirms that the designed antenna is suitable for portable UWB MIMO applications. The proposed antenna is designed; simulated and measured. There is a good agreement between the simulated and measured results. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 59:31-36, 2017