Impact of Antenna Design on MIMO Performance for Compact Terminals With Adaptive Impedance Matching

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1454-1465

  Vasilev, Ivaylo ^a   Plicanic, Vanja ^b   Lau, Buon Kiong ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Network Research Laboratory Research and Technology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

antenna measurements; impedance matching; MIMO systems

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MIMO SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE IMPEDANCE MATCHING; ANGULAR SPREADS; ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; CIRCUIT DESIGNS; MEAN EFFECTIVE GAIN; NONUNIFORM CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PROPAGATION CHANNELS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84963971172     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2016.2521885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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