Closely-packed UWB MIMO/diversity antenna with different patterns and polarizations for USB dongle applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4372-4380

  Zhang, Shuai ^a,b   Lau, Buon Kiong ^c   Sunesson, Anders ^d,e   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Lite On Mobile AB   (Sweden)

^e EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE ERIC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); mutual coupling; pattern diversity; polarization diversity; ultrawideband (UWB) antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; ANTENNA STRUCTURES; ENVELOPE CORRELATION; GROUND PLANES; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MUTUAL COUPLING; PATTERN DIVERSITY; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; TOTAL EFFICIENCY; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; USB DONGLE; UWB-MIMO; WIDE-BAND;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MIMO SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; SLOT ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84866089071     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207049     Document Type: Article

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