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Design of a Novel Nine Shaped Tri-Band MIMO Antenna for LTE Applications
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Figure 1. Microstrip Circular patch antenna Table I. Design Parameters specifications of Antenna
Parameter Measurements
Radius of circular patch 7mm
Design and Analysis Substrate
Input impedance
FR4-epoxy
50 ohm
In this design procedure, thickness and dielectric con- Dielectric constant of FR4 4.4
stant of the substrate are selected initially. The radius of a Height of substrate 1.56mm
monopole microstrip antenna is designed keeping the reso- Conducting material copper
nant frequency in observation for LTE band, FR4 is used as Feeding Technique Transmission Line
substrate with dielectric constant of r =4.4 and with method
loss tangent of 0.02 and substrate height (h) 1.56mm[9]. The
resonant frequency of an antenna can be found using follow- The measured values for the given specification are,
ing formula [1][3]. 0.0136
Resonant Frequency,
where, Thus the antenna was designed for the above said resonant
frequency. The simulated antenna has two element of novel
nine shaped monopole antenna. Each of which antenna reso-
nating at each resonant frequencies obtained at 0.550-
(2) 1.3GHz, 4.3-5.1 GHz and 6.93-7.5GHz.
where,
ae=effective radius of the patch Results and Discussion
fr=resonating frequency
a=radius of the circular patch The novel nine shape monopole patch antenna is simulat-
ae=effective radius of the patch ed using Ansoft HFSS v13. Fig.2 shows the design of an
h=height of the substrate antenna model, Fig 3 shows the S-parameters and Fig 4
c=speed of the light shows the VSWR of the antenna. It can be seen from
r=dielectric constant of the substrate. S11-parameter that the frequency coverage of 0.550-1.3 GHz,
4.3-5.1 GHz and 6.9-7.3 GHz. And also VSWR is found to
be 1.04 between the bands 4.5-5.1 GHz [11].
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Design of a Novel Nine Shaped Tri-Band MIMO Antenna for LTE Applications
ISSN:2321-1156
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very close to the centre of the smith chart. simulation of proposed design is done using Ansoft HFSS
v13 software. The simulated results are in good terms with
standard values.
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Acknowledgment
The authors are thankful to M.S.R.I.T Bangalore for
providing lab facilities for carrying out this research work.
Authors also like to thank I.I.S.C Bangalore for providing
facilities for testing our fabricated antenna.
Biographies
SANGEETHA.G. completed her B.E in Instrumentation
Technology from M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Presently she is pursuing her
final year M.Tech in Digital Communication Engineering
from M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology and the proposed
research work in this paper is part of her M.Tech thesis. Her
area of interest include robotics and MIMO Antenna design.
Ms.Sangeetha can be reached at
sangeetha.sunitha@gmail.com
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