Structure-Shared Planar UWB MIMO Antenna With High Isolation for Mobile Platform

A two-port structure-shared planar ultrawideband (UWB) antenna with high isolation is presented in this communication. The proposed antenna consists of a planar monopole and two back-to-back tapered slots etched on the monopole. The monopole and the tapered slots are fed by the microstrip line and the differential feeding network, respectively. The differential feeding network of the tapered slots excites the modes, which are orthogonal to those of the monopole. Therefore, high isolation between the two ports can be achieved without additional decoupling structures. The measured results show that the proposed antenna can operate from 3 to 10 GHz with the reflection coefficient of the two ports lower than −10 dB and the isolation higher than 38 dB. The measured realized peak gains are above 2.6 dB, and the measured envelope correlation coefficients are less than 9 \times 10^{-5} . The proposed UWB multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna can be applied in the MIMO communication systems, especially those requiring high isolation.