A Wideband Decoupling Technique for Two Inverted-F Antennas Using a Capacitively Loaded Ground Cut

In this letter, an efficient wideband decoupling technique is introduced for two inverted-F antennas (IFAs). By introducing a capacitively loaded ground cut, two extra coupling paths can be exploited and co-tuned to mitigate the mutual coupling between two IFAs at two frequencies. Therefore, two tra...

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Published in:IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters 2024-10, Vol.23 (10), p.3058-3062
Main Authors: Tang, Wei, Sui, Jiangwei, Li, Junru, Li, Du, Zhu, Xiangwei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna decoupling
Antennas
Broadband
Capacitors
Couplings
Decoupling method
Equivalent circuits
Filtering theory
Impedance matching
in-band full-duplex (IBFD)
inverted-F antenna (IFA)
MIMO communication
multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO)
Mutual coupling
Wideband
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Summary:In this letter, an efficient wideband decoupling technique is introduced for two inverted-F antennas (IFAs). By introducing a capacitively loaded ground cut, two extra coupling paths can be exploited and co-tuned to mitigate the mutual coupling between two IFAs at two frequencies. Therefore, two transmission zeros can be obtained so that a wideband and deep decoupling is achieved. An equivalent circuit is presented for the proposed antennas to reveal the decoupling mechanism. Three examples are designed to justify the proposed method, showing that wideband isolation and impedance matching are obtained with 19.6% fractional bandwidth for 30 dB isolation and 11.2% for 40 dB isolation. Moreover, the average total efficiency is 86%, with the size of the decoupling structure only about 0.04 × 0.06λ 2 .
ISSN:1536-1225
1548-5757
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2024.3423364