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The desired properties of the broadband dielectric wave tilting structure (DWTS) are determined by using quasi-conformal transformation electromagnetics (QCTE). Next, the permittivity profile of the DWTS is realized by employing air-hole technology, which is based on the effective medium theory, and the DWTS is fabricated using the additive manufacturing (3D printing) technique. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified by designing two-element patch-based MIMO antenna prototypes operating at 3 GHz, 5 GHz, and 7 GHz, respectively. The proposed technique helped to reduce the correlation coefficient \u03c1 in the range of 37% to 99% in the respective operating bandwidth of each MIMO antenna, thereby, in each case, improving the isolation between antenna elements by better than 3 dB, which is an excellent performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21227577","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,15]],"date-time":"2021-11-15T20:46:47Z","timestamp":1637009207000},"page":"7577","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Field Decorrelation and Isolation Improvement in an MIMO Antenna Using an All-Dielectric Device Based on Transformation Electromagnetics"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0873-2997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Usman","family":"Qureshi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Studies, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Umar","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Studies, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4450-8212","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad S.","family":"Sharawi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, QC H3T 1J4, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1848-4862","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shah Nawaz","family":"Burokur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LEME, UPL, Univ Paris Nanterre, F92410 Ville d\u2019Avray, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Raj","family":"Mittra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"198","DOI":"10.1109\/JPROC.2003.821915","article-title":"An overview of MIMO communications-A key to gigabit wireless","volume":"92","author":"Paulraj","year":"2004","journal-title":"Proc. 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