New Techniques to Isolate Compact MIMO Antennas
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metasurfaces; MIMO antennas; circularly polarized dielectric resonator antennas; reflectarrays; SIW
Interests: MIMO antennas; metamaterials design for isolation enhancement; DRA antennas; UWB antennas; FSS surface design; mm-wave antenna design; array design
Interests: circularly polarized antennas; reconfigurable dielectric resonator antennas; millimeter-wave on-chip antennas and filter circuits; D-band antennas; 140 GHz power amplifiers
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Special Issue Information
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology is gaining significant attention in modern wireless communication. It addresses key requirements such as higher data transfer rates, improved spectrum efficiency, and enhanced reliability without increasing power. MIMO antennas are the key essential components that can meet the data rate demands of future technologies. In such systems, multiple antennas are deployed at both the transmitting and receiving ends to improve spectral efficiency, sensing capabilities, and signal quality, which enhances the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). MIMO has a wide range of applications. For example, in densely populated areas, it significantly boosts network capacity, allowing the system to support more users. In military applications, MIMO's robustness against interference and jamming makes it highly valuable. However, designing MIMO antennas poses several challenges due to the large number of elements, limited space, and proximity of operations. A major issue is the mutual coupling between antenna elements, which can degrade performance factors such as bandwidth, efficiency, gain, the envelope correlation coefficient, diversity gain, and channel capacity.
This Special Issue aims to showcase recent advancements, current trends, and future developments in MIMO antenna technology. We invite researchers to submit original research or review papers focused on innovative design techniques, analysis, optimization, and experimental results in this field. Submissions can cover both conceptual and applied research, including but not limited to the following topics:
MIMO antenna design;
5G, 6G MIMO antennas;
Optimization of MIMO antennas;
Metasurface-based MIMO antennas;
Reconfigurable MIMO antennas;
Massive MIMO antennas;
Diversity techniques in MIMO antennas;
Millimeter-wave/terahertz MIMO antennas;
Decoupling in MIMO antennas;
Phased array and beamforming MIMO antennas;
Channel capacity estimation of MIMO antennas;
Wearable MIMO antennas;
Transmission and detection techniques in MIMO antennas.
Dr. Manzoor Elahi
Dr. Shahid Khan
Dr. Amir Altaf
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIMO antennas
- 5G/6G
- isolation
- diversity gain
- envelope correlation coefficient
- characteristic mode analysis
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