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Abstract

This paper presents a wideband four-port microstrip antenna operating from 2.75 GHz to 6.75 GHz with frequency reconfigurability and controllable notch characteristics. The antenna employs an asymmetric radiating structure to realize circular polarization around 5.5 GHz, while multilayer graphene(MLG) pads are introduced to enable bias-controlled frequency tuning and adjustable band rejection. The four-port configuration, implemented on an RT/Duroid 5880 substrate (ε_r = 2.2, thickness = 1.6 mm), achieves inter-element isolation better than 20 dB without additional decoupling structures. The proposed design also exhibits strong diversity performance with an envelope correlation coefficient below 0.02 and diversity gain above 9.97 dB. The results demonstrate that the proposed antenna provides a compact and low-complexity solution for wideband and reconfigurable sub-6 GHz wireless communication applications.

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