Mutual Coupling Reduction in Closely Spaced MIMO Dielectric Resonator Antenna in H-Plane Using Closed Metallic Loop

Abstract

In this study, the mutual coupling in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is reduced by employing closed metallic loops. The loops are wrapped around the adjacent edges of the dielectric resonators (DR) where magnetic coupling is significant. The proposed method employs only the conductive metallic strips for mutual coupling reduction and this makes the entire design very simple and compact. The impedance bandwidth varies from 4.73 to 5.1 GHz, covering the Sub-6 GHz 5G band. The realized MIMO DRA has an isolation of 28 dB at the resonant frequency with a measured peak gain at each port of 3.5 dBi and a peak radiation efficiency of 93%. The obtained measured results yield a low correlation coefficient (< 0.05) mostly at the entire band that contribute to diversity gain (> 9.8 dB) to increase the capacity of communication system, is reported in this paper. The proposed antenna was fabricated and the closed loop strip is wrapped around using in house facility. Furthermore, some issues related to the fabrications tolerance have been investigated to justify the difference between some simulated and measured results.