Dual-Band Meta-Absorber for Reduced Cross Talk between 5G MIMO Antenna Arrays

TL;DR

This paper presents a dual-band meta-absorber designed to reduce cross talk in 5G MIMO antenna arrays, featuring high absorption efficiency, polarization insensitivity, and tunable response under different incident angles.

Contribution

The study introduces a novel dual-band meta-absorber with arrow-shaped unit cells that effectively minimizes cross talk in 5G MIMO systems, with detailed analysis of its absorption and polarization properties.

Findings

Achieves absorption peaks of 96% and 99.99% at 31.11 GHz and 33.77 GHz

Exhibits polarization insensitivity due to structural symmetry

Maintains performance under various incident angles

Abstract

Metamaterials have great potential to construct ultrathin, miniaturized, and cost-effective microwave and optical devices for future wireless communication systems. Here, a dual-band meta-absorber comprising four arrows-shaped unit cells is investigated. The absorption features are numerically studied and analyzed in a microwave frequency spectrum from 28 - 36 GHz. The proposed meta-absorber illustrates the two independent absorption peaks of 96% and 99.99% at the corresponding operating points of 31.11 GHz and 33.77 GHz, respectively, within the 5G spectrum. Due to structure symmetry, the proposed meta-absorber exhibits insensitive polarization performance under the influence of different polarization angles of the incoming EM waves. The absorption characteristics of the absorber are also analyzed for different obliquity of the incident EM waves, and their absorption peaks are tuned under these operating conditions. Further, to realize the absorption behavior of this absorbing device, the surface electric field profile and current distributions are also studied at the aforementioned two operating frequency points. This absorber type remains prudent to minimize the coupling and cross-talk between the elements of the MIMO antenna operating in the 5G band.