TY - JOUR ID - uneatlantico6977 TI - Triple-Band Notched Ultra-Wideband Microstrip MIMO Antenna with Bluetooth Band KW - ultra-wideband communication; microstrip antenna; sharpness edges; MIMO AV - public A1 - El-Gendy, Mohamed S. A1 - Ali, Mohamed Mamdouh M. A1 - Bautista Thompson, Ernesto A1 - Ashraf, Imran IS - 9 N2 - In this paper, a novel ultra-wideband UWB antenna element with triple-band notches is proposed. The proposed UWB radiator element operates from 2.03 GHz up to 15.04 GHz with triple rejected bands at the WiMAX band (3.28?3.8 GHz), WLAN band (5.05?5.9 GHz), and X-band (7.78?8.51 GHz). In addition, the radiator supports the Bluetooth band (2.4?2.483 GHz). Three different techniques were utilized to obtain the triple-band notches. An alpha-shaped coupled line with a stub-loaded resonator (SLR) band stop filter was inserted along the main feeding line before the radiator to obtain a WiMAX band notch characteristic. Two identical U-shaped slots were etched on the proposed UWB radiator to achieve WLAN band notch characteristics with a very high degree of selectivity. Two identical metallic frames of an octagon-shaped electromagnetic band gap structure (EBG) were placed along the main feeding line to achieve the notch characteristic with X-band satellite communication with high sharpness edges. A novel UWB multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radiator is proposed. The proposed UWB-MIMO radiator was fabricated on FR-4 substrate material and measured. The isolation between every two adjacent ports was below ?20 dB over the FCC-UWB spectrum and the Bluetooth band for the four MIMO antennas. The envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) between the proposed antennas in MIMO does not exceed 0.05. The diversity gains (DG) for all the radiators are greater than 9.98 dB. JF - Sensors Y1 - 2023/// SN - 1424-8220 UR - http://doi.org/10.3390/s23094475 VL - 23 ER -