Optimal single-port matching impedance for capacity maximization in compact MIMO arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3566-3575

  Fei, Yuanyuan ^a   Fan, Yijia ^b   Lau, Buon Kiong ^c   Thompson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Antenna measurements; Impedance matching; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECODING; FADING (RADIO); MIM DEVICES; MIMO SYSTEMS; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; PORTS AND HARBORS; POWDERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL MATRIXES; CLOSED FORMS; COMPACT ARRAYS; COUPLING EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; INPUT IMPEDANCES; MATCHING CONDITIONS; MATCHING NETWORKS; MIMO ARRAYS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; MUTUAL COUPLING; NUMERICAL FINDINGS; OPTIMUM MATCHING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SYSTEM MODELS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 57149125170     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2005463     Document Type: Article

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