Multiple antenna systems with inherently decoupled radiators

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 1, 2012, Pages 503-515

  Pelosi, Mauro ^a   Knudsen, Mikael Bergholz ^b   Pedersen, Gert Frølund ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand phantom; Isolation; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; Small antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA IMPEDANCE; ANTENNA ISOLATION; DECOUPLING TECHNIQUE; ENVELOPE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HAND PHANTOM; INVERTED F-ANTENNAS; ISOLATION; MULTIPLE ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEMS; MUTUAL COUPLING; NARROW BANDS; NOVEL DESIGN; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SMALL ANTENNA; TOTAL LOSS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FREQUENCY BANDS; MIMO SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SETS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84857003791     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173437     Document Type: Article

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