TY - JOUR AU - Ahmad H. Abdelgwad, AU - Mohammod Ali, PY - 2020/11/07 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Isolation Improvement between Closely-Spaced Antennas Using EBG JF - The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal (ACES) JA - ACES Journal VL - 35 IS - 11 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/ACES/article/view/7501 SP - 1304 AB - <p>Isolation improvement between two closely spaced antennas using a single column EBG is proposed for compact wireless devices. The proposed design developed for the 2.4 GHz WLAN band achieves more than 17 dB isolation improvement between two planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) compared to the no-EBG case. As a result, improved MIMO capacity is also achieved. The proposed design can be scaled up or down in frequency and may be implemented for small devices such as, smart watches, Wi-Fi routers, internet of things (IoT) devices etc.</p> ER -