Abstract
A compact dual wide-band multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radiator is presented in this article. The MIMO radiator is developed on a 1.5 mm thick FR-4 substrate. The proposed structure is composed of U-shaped patches which are connected with small rectangular slit loaded circular rings and partial ground plane with chamfer edges. This arrangement is placed symmetrically at a far distance of 2.5 mm to achieve dual-operating bands with a high amount of isolation, radiation efficiencies and group delay between two radiators. The proposed compact dual-band radiator is resonating at 2.5/6.4 GHz frequencies and it provides isolation greater than 20 dB over the operating bands. The proposed design has a size of 0.45 λ0 × 0.291 λ0 × 0.03λ0 mm and |S11| of about 41.25 dB and 14.58 dB. This design has a wide impedance matching in the range of frequencies from 2.38 GHz to 3.17 GHz & 5.14 GHz to 7.39 GHz with |S21| < 15 dB. The performance of diversity is calculated through diversity gain (DG) higher than 9.99, and Envelope Correlation Coefficient (ECC) which is less than 0.04 over the operating bands.