An eigen-analysis of compact antenna arrays and its application to port decoupling

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 360-370

  Volmer, Christian ^a   Weber, Jörn ^a   Stephan, Ralf ^a   Blau, Kurt ^a   Hein, Matthias A ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Compact antenna arrays; Decorrelation; Decoupling; Mobile communication

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CORRELATION THEORY; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; COMPACT ANTENNA ARRAYS; DECORRELATION; DECOUPLING; POWER MATCHING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 40549121311     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.915450     Document Type: Article

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