Miniature 4-Element MIMO Antenna System Designed From Transparent Glass Substrate and Aluminum Foil Radiator

Nassrin Ibrahim Mohamed Elamin^1,

¹Faculty of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, International University of Africa (IUA), Khartoum, Sudan

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Nassrin Ibrahim Mohamed Elamin. Miniature 4-Element MIMO Antenna System Designed From Transparent Glass Substrate and Aluminum Foil Radiator. American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2021; 9(1):1-6. doi: 10.12691/AJEEE-9-1-1

Abstract

The use of transparent antennas has been gaining popularity in recent years. Today many types and designs of display apparatus can be seen along city streets and for buildings as a backup power supply. Transparent antennas can be used for cladding the modern glass buildings. Transparent antennas also can be placed directly on top of solar cells and resolve the issue of competing for limited surface real estate. Like integration with the solar panels of small satellites, where limited surface area is an issue for mounting antennas, solar cells, and space instruments. This paper discuss the methods and materials used to design a transparent antennas that can be integrated with solar cells to solve the issue of competing for limited surface real estate and backup the short of electricity in the sunny country Sudan. In this paper a proposed a 4-element meander line MIMO Multiple Inputs Multiple Outputs antenna system designed from Aluminum foil radiator over transparent glass substrate this design is transparent partially. Despite of the unfamiliar materials used for the antenna design and it is a limited size MIMO system the simulated and measured results showed XBand matched bandwidth. In this work the antenna is designed and the solar cell module has been proposed theoretically.

Keywords

MIMO, Transparent substrate, XBand, Integrated Glass buildings

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