A Compact Dual-Band MIMO Slot Antenna for WLAN Applications

A very compact dual-band two-element multiple-input-multiple-output antenna for wireless local area network applications is presented in this letter. The antenna occupies an overall area of 24 x 25 mm(2). A microstrip-line-fed antenna with two quarter-wavelength slots of different lengths, which radiate at 2.5 and 5.6 GHz, is used as an antenna element. The proposed antenna uses a simple decoupling network, based on a wide slot and a pair of narrow slots, to achieve good isolation (better than 20 dB) between the ports. Moreover, the envelope correlation coefficient of the proposed antenna is within the acceptable limit.