A decoupling technique for increasing the port isolation between two strongly coupled antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3650-3658

  Chen, Shin Chang ^a   Wang, Yu Shin ^a   Chung, Shyh Jong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decoupling network; High isolation antennas; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Pattern diversity; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC LINES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; PORTS AND HARBORS; TRELLIS CODES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

DECOUPLING NETWORK; HIGH ISOLATION ANTENNAS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO); PATTERN DIVERSITY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN);

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 60149103154     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2005469     Document Type: Article

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