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An improved mutual coupling compensation in circularly polarized (CP) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is presented in this paper. Using trimming approach, the mutual coupling (MC) between closely spaced DRA units at 0.3λ has been significantly reduced while axial ratio performance has been maintained. Mutual coupling reduction is obtained by trimming the DRA to ensure low mutual coupling below −20dB. The exclusive features of the proposed MIMO DRA include wide impedance matching bandwidth (BW), triple band circular polarization, and suppressed MC between the radiating elements. The impedance bandwidth matches perfectly with a triple band's 3 dB axial ratio (AR). It is designed with characteristic mode analysis with good agreement of the measurement that has been obtained. Using the probe feed method, the DRA and patch strip are coupled together to allow bandwidth widening of the pro-posed DRA. An impedance bandwidth of 34% at a lower frequency to around 2% at a higher frequency was achieved in all resonance frequencies. Thus, we refer to our newly designed DRA as a proposed method for effectively reducing the mutual coupling between DRAs. Additionally, the 3 dB AR bandwidth matched at 3.3 GHz, 4.6 GHz, and 6.3 GHz with a percentage of 11.66%, 3.04%, and 2.22% obtained at the three different frequencies. Note that the proposed DRA exhibits low mutual coupling (below −20 dB) at the targeted frequencies, which is suitable for better signal reception for MIMO applications. By computing, the metrics envelop correlation coefficient, diversity gain, channel capacity loss, and total active reflection coefficient, the MIMO performance of the proposed antenna is verified. The experiments show a close result between simulated and computed validation of the proposed DRA.

In this Research article, a circularly polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) that operates in the sub-6 GHz spectrum for future 5G New Radio (5G NR) applications has been proposed. The novel design consists of a Roman Three shaped conformal metal strip excited through a singly fed mechanism. The proposed technique is responsible for circular polarization by exciting the higher-order degenerate modes, i.e., TExδ13 and TEy1δ3.Initially, the roman three shape design produces a narrow 10-dB impedance bandwidth of 10.68% (3.23–3.59 GHz) and axial ratio bandwidth of just 1.47% (3.35–3.41 GHz); to cover the whole 5G NR Bands (n77/n78), the parasitic patch has been introducing at an optimum location on rectangular DRA, such arrangement not only improves impedance matching |S11 | ≤ −10 dB bandwidth by 180 %, i.e., 27.73% (3.26 – 4.35 GHz) but also cover the desired band. Along with this, a noteworthy improvement of ∼ 250% in 3-dB overlapping axial ratio (AR) bandwidth has been attained. In parallel to the Sub-6 GHz 5G NR Bands applications, this antenna can be used for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) applications. Finally, the fabricated antenna prototype is tested and offers decent performance in desired parameters. The measured results agree reasonably with simulation results.