Abstract:

In this paper, we focus on antenna array design for mobile phone with finite volume and propose a novel antenna element structure by capacitive feeding and capacitive loading method based on the planar inverted F antenna (PIFA). State-of-the-art development on this issue is reviewed. Then, a novel capacitively fed and capacitively loaded PIFA structure is proposed and studied. The results of the experiments showed that our structure can reduce the coupling of antenna elements from 13.4 dB to 24.5 dB. Finally, a design with a bandwidth of 100 MHz centered at 2.35 GHz and envelopment correlation coefficient of 0.01 2 is provided and the diversity performance of the dual-element modified PIFA array is evaluated in both simulation and measurement. In a word, our novel design reaches broadband, miniaturization, high isolation and offers excellent diversity performance.

Key words:

MIMO, PIFA, isolation, capacitive feed, capacitive load