Stacked Patch Mimo Antenna Array for C-band Applications

Microstrip antenna arrays are one of the popular antenna configurations for nowadays wireless communication system. The paper proposes a compact novel design of multiple elements electromagnetically coupled stacked antenna array which operates in Cband. The antenna resonates at 6 GHz and shows bandwidth of 521 MHz with 5.84dBi gain. The proposed antenna shows the ECC to be 0.03 which indicated quite perfect behaviour for the MIMO antenna array system. The proposed MIMO system offers good capacity for data transfer. The simulated results of the antenna in terms of return loss, diversity gain and radiation pattern, capacity of the antenna system is presented in this paper. Simulations are carried out with CST MWS’14 and capacity plots are made using MATLAB R’11b. KeywordsStacked, Bandwidth, ECC, MIMO, Array, C-band, Return loss, Diversity gain, CST MWS’14, MATLAB R’11b.