Electromagnetic coupling reduction in high-profile monopole antennas using single-negative magnetic metamaterials for MIMO applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2894-2902

  Bait Suwailam, Mohammed M ^a   Boybay, Muhammed Said ^a   Ramahi, Omar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic materials; metamaterial; monopole antennas; multiple input multiple output (MIMO); mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC MATERIALS; BROADSIDE-COUPLED; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC INCLUSIONS; MAGNETIC METAMATERIALS; MIMO APPLICATIONS; MONOPOLE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEM; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; MUTUAL COUPLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY BANDS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETISM; METAMATERIALS; MIMO SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956373612     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2052560     Document Type: Article

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