A Study of the Radiation Characteristics of an Origami Enabled MIMO Antenna

In this work, a reconfigurable Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna is proposed. The effects of folding on the radiation characteristics of this antenna are investigated. As a proof-of-concept, an eight element MIMO antenna is created using microstrip dipoles operating at 2.4 GHz. The antenna is implemented on a 3D printed modified scissor lift mechanism which allows the antenna characteristics to be varied as a function of inter-element spacing. The linearly polarized elements are sufficiently isolated by employing polarization diversity.