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A 4-port MIMO Antenna for LTE Femtocell using Cross Decoupler

Cross Decoupler를 이용한 LTE 펨토셀용 4-port MIMO 안테나

  • Received : 2014.03.10
  • Accepted : 2014.04.11
  • Published : 2014.04.30
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Abstract

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and measurement of a 4-port femtocell MIMO antenna for LTE 700MHz(Band12, 13, 14, 17, 28, 44) applications. Based on microstrip patch antenna, an impedance matching is achieved by short pin. In order to obtain sufficient bandwidth and isolation between antenna elements in a limited dimension, a cross decoupler is used. With a Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR)${\leq}2$, the measured result of the fabricated antenna provides 105MHz(0.698~0.803MHZ) bandwidth and shows the gain with 1.97dBi and isolation above 13dB. As one of the key parameters for MIMO performance evaluation, correlation coefficient of MIMO is achieved within 0.2.

본 논문에서는 LTE 700MHz(Band12, 13, 14, 17, 28, 44) 대역에서 동작 가능한 4개의 포트를 가진 펨토셀(Femtocell) MIMO 안테나를 설계 제작하였다. 마이크로스트립 패치 안테나를 기반으로 임피던스 매칭을 위하여 쇼트핀을 이용하였고, 한정된 크기에서 충분한 안테나 격리도를 얻기 위해 십자형 디커플러를 이용하였다. 시뮬레이션에 의한 최적화된 파라미터를 가지고 제작하였으며, 제작된 안테나는 VSWR${\leq}2$에서 105MHz(0.698~0.803) 대역폭을 만족하고 1.97dBi의 이득과 격리도는 13dB이상의 값을 얻었다. MIMO 안테나의 성능을 판단하는 주요 파라미터인 안테나간 상관계수는 0.2 이하의 결과를 얻었다.

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