Gain and isolation enhancement of a wideband MIMO antenna using metasurface for 5G sub-6 GHz communication systems

Md Mhedi Hasan; Mohammad Tariqul Islam; Md Samsuzzaman; Mohd Hafiz Baharuddin; Mohamed S Soliman; Ahmed Alzamil; Iman I M Abu Sulayman; Md Shabiul Islam

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-13522-5

Gain and isolation enhancement of a wideband MIMO antenna using metasurface for 5G sub-6 GHz communication systems

Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 8;12(1):9433. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-13522-5.

Authors

Md Mhedi Hasan^{1

2}, Mohammad Tariqul Islam^{3

4}, Md Samsuzzaman⁵, Mohd Hafiz Baharuddin⁶, Mohamed S Soliman⁷, Ahmed Alzamil⁸, Iman I M Abu Sulayman⁷, Md Shabiul Islam⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Malaysia. p106258@siswa.ukm.edu.my.
² Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Faculty of Engineering, Comilla University, Cumilla, 3506, Bangladesh. p106258@siswa.ukm.edu.my.
³ Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Malaysia. tariqul@ukm.edu.my.
⁴ Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, 81481, Saudi Arabia. tariqul@ukm.edu.my.
⁵ Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.
⁶ Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Malaysia. hafizb@ukm.edu.my.
⁷ Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, PO Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, 81481, Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Faculty of Engineering (FOE), Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Abstract

This work proposes a compact metasurface (MS)-integrated wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for fifth generation (5G) sub-6 GHz wireless communication systems. The perceptible novelty of the proposed MIMO system is its wide operating bandwidth, high gain, lower interelement gap, and excellent isolation within the MIMO components. The radiating patch of the antenna is truncated diagonally with a partially ground plane, and a metasurface has been employed for enhancing the antenna performance. The suggested MS integrated single antenna prototype has a miniature dimension of 0.58λ × 0.58λ × 0.02λ. The simulated and measured findings demonstrate a wideband characteristic starting from 3.11 to 7.67 GHz including a high realized gain of 8 dBi. The four-element MIMO system has been designed by rendering each single antenna orthogonally to one another while retaining compact size and wideband properties between 3.2 and 7.6 GHz. The suggested MIMO prototype has been designed and fabricated on a low loss Rogers RT5880 substrate with a miniature dimension of 1.05λ × 1.05λ × 0.02λ and its performance is evaluated using a suggested 10 × 10 array of a square enclosed circular split ring resonators within the same substrate material. The inclusion of the proposed metasurface with a backplane significantly reduces antenna backward radiation and manipulates the electromagnetic field, thus improving the bandwidth, gain and isolation of MIMO components. The suggested 4-port MIMO antenna offers a high realized gain of 8.3 dBi compared to existing MIMO antennas with an excellent average total efficiency of 82% in the 5G sub-6 GHz spectrum and is in good accordance with measured results. Furthermore, the developed MIMO antenna exhibits outstanding diversity characteristics in respect of envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) less than 0.004, diversity gain (DG) close to 10 dB (> 9.98 dB) and high isolation between MIMO components (> 15.5 dB). Therefore, the proposed MS-inspired MIMO antenna substantiates its applicability for 5G sub-6 GHz communication networks.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Equipment Design
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Wireless Technology*