Reducing mutual coupling for an extremely closely-packed tunable dual-element PIFA array through a resonant slot antenna formed in-between

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2771-2776

  Zhang, Shuai ^a,b   Khan, Salman Naeem ^c   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Process and Energy Systems Engineering Center PRESTIGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Diversity antennas; mutual coupling; planar inverted F antenna (PIFA); slot antenna

Indexed keywords

COUPLING POWER; DIRECT COUPLING; DIVERSITY ANTENNA; EDGE-TO-EDGE; FOLDED-SLOT ANTENNA; FREE SPACE; GROUND PLANES; HIGH ISOLATION; IN-BETWEEN; MUTUAL COUPLING; NARROW SLOT; PLANAR INVERTED F ANTENNA (PIFA); PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; REDUCTION METHOD; SIMULATION RESULT; WLAN BANDS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 77955458626     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2050432     Document Type: Article

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