Performance improvement of a wideband MIMO system by using two-port RLWA

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 830-834

  Piazza, Daniele ^a,b   D'Amico, Michele ^b   Dandekar, Kapil R ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Reconfigurable antennas; Smart antennas

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGE; ANTENNA DESIGN; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMMUNICATION DEVICE; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; FIELD MEASUREMENT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIPES; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RADIATION BEAMS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; UNIT CELLS; WIDE-BAND;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DRAG REDUCTION; METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MIMO SYSTEMS; SMART ANTENNAS;

TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

EID: 77956197475     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2026594     Document Type: Article

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