Title
Compact Built-In Handset Mimo Antenna Using L-Shaped Folded Monopole Antennas
Abstract
A compact built-in handset antenna for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system at 2 GHz, comprising two elements array of newly proposed L-shaped folded monopole antenna (LFMA), is evaluated under the multipath radio wave propagation environments. By analyzing the fundamental characteristics, mean effective gain (MEG), correlation, and channel capacity, the significant enhancement in the capability, as a handset MIMO antenna under practical use conditions, was confirmed. The performances were also compared to those of an array antenna comprising two planar inversed-F antenna (PIFA) elements in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed antenna. The results show that the equivalent or improved performances can be realized, by using the proposed LFMA array with a compact size, taking only the volume of 44% of a PIFA array. The LFMA array provides almost the same bandwidth and enhanced isolation compared with a PIFA array, and the sufficiently low correlation and acceptable effective gain are obtained under the multipath radio wave propagation environments. In addition, a greater channel capacity than a PIFA array is achieved especially when the proposed LFMA array is inclined for the display-viewing mode, and moreover, an almost doubled increase in the channel capacity is obtained by using MIMO transmission compared with single-input single-output (SISO). This study also show that the MEG has much effects on the channel capacity, rather than the correlations, for the proposed antenna.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.6.1743
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
handset terminal, folded monopole, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), correlation coefficient, mean effective gain (MEG)
Multipath propagation,Dipole antenna,Antenna (radio),Telecommunications,Computer science,Folded inverted conformal antenna,MIMO,Monopole antenna,Array gain,Acoustics,Channel capacity,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E91B
6
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.63
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongho Kim120.63
Toshiteru Hayashi220.97
Yoshio Koyanagi3265.95
Hisashi Morishita4199.72