Compact 4 x 4 UWB-MIMO antenna with WLAN band rejected operation

A compact planar UWB-MIMO antenna array with WLAN band rejection is presented. The array consists of four monopole radiators and a common ground plane. These monopoles are placed in such a way that the polarisation diversity of nearly placed radiators is exploited, resulting in high isolation. The proposed MIMO antenna array is electrically small (50 x 39.8 mm2), printed on a low loss 1.524 mm thick Rogers TMM4 laminate with a dielectric constant of 4.5 and a loss tangent of 0.002. A band-stop design was inserted on the ground plane to behave similar to a LC band-stop filter and reject the WLAN band. Simulation and measurement results satisfy the return loss requirement of better than 10 dB and isolation better than 17 dB over the entire 2.7-5.1 and 5.9-12 GHz bandwidths.