Study of mutual coupling between circular stacked-patch antennas on a sphere

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1834-1844

  Sipus, Zvonimir ^a   Skokic, Sinisa ^a   Bosiljevac, Marko ^a   Burum, Niksa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUBROVNIK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Conformal antennas; Method of moments (MoM); Microstrip arrays; Mutual coupling; Spherical antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MECHANISMS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ROTATION;

ADDITION THEOREMS; ANALYSIS METHODS; ANGULAR VARIATIONS; ANTENNA ELEMENTS; AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS; CLOSED FORM; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; COUPLING MECHANISMS; CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS; CURVATURE (SORI); ELECTRO MAGNETIC SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM); EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; FIELD REPRESENTATIONS; INPUT IMPEDANCES; LABORATORY MODELING; LEGENDRE FUNCTIONS; LEGENDRE TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSES; MUTUAL COUPLING (MC); NEW APPROACHES; PATCH ANTENNA ARRAYS; PATCH ANTENNAS; PATCH ARRAYS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SINGLE PATCH; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS (SPHARM); SPHERICAL(PIVOT); STRUCTURE PARAMETERS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 47249125352     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924687     Document Type: Article

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