700-960MHz MIMO antenna for picocell applications

L.H. Trinh (1) , Fabien Ferrero (1) , Robert Staraj (1) , Jean-Marc Ribero (1)

1 LEAT - Laboratoire d'Electronique, Antennes et Télécommunications

This article presents the design and simulation of a MIMO antenna dedicated to picocell applications. Satisfying the compactness of a mini-residential gateway, the proposed concept is made up of two folded IFAs with PI matching circuits on a FR4 epoxy substrate. The antenna operates in the frequency range of 700 to 960 MHz with a S11 lower than -10 dB. It can be integrated in a picocell base station which has a total size of 175×140×35 mm 3 and exhibits in this case, efficiencies greater than 81%.

Mots clés: MIMO; Logic gates; Base stations; Wireless communication; Correlation; Microwave antennas; MIMO communication; picocellular radio; planar inverted-F antennas; UHF antennas

Domaines: Electromagnétisme

L.H. Trinh, Fabien Ferrero, Robert Staraj, Jean-Marc Ribero. 700-960MHz MIMO antenna for picocell applications. IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI Symposium, Jul 2013, Orlando, United States. 366-367 / Session: Antenna Systems for MIMO Communications. Paper Code: 132.2, ⟨10.1109/APS.2013.6710844⟩. ⟨hal-00855759⟩