Investigation of planar and conformal printed arrays for MIMO performance analysis
Author
Tunç, Celal Alp
Ircı, Erdinç
Bakır, Onur
Aktaş, Defne
Ertürk, Vakur B.
Altıntaş, Ayhan
Date
2006Source Title
Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2006
Print ISSN
0379-6566
Publisher
IEEE
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
MIMO channel capacity of printed arrays with dipole elements is analyzed. A MIMO channel model based on electric fields is used. The effects of mutual interactions among the array elements through space and surface waves are included into the channel matrix using a full-wave hybrid Method of Moments (MoM)/Green's function technique in the spatial domain. MIMO capacity of printed arrays is then compared with that of free standing thin wire dipole arrays. Results show better performance of printed arrays.
Keywords
Conformal printed arraysMIMO
Mutual coupling
Planar printed arrays
Channel capacity
Electric fields
Electromagnetic waves
Green's function
Channel matrix