Tunable decoupling and matching network for diversity enhancement of closely spaced antennas
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2012
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A tunable decoupling and matching network (DMN) for a closely spaced two-element antenna array is presented. The DMN achieves perfect matching for the eigenmodes of the array and thus simultaneously isolates and matches the system ports while keeping the circuit small. Arrays of closely spaced wire and microstrip monopole pairs are used to demonstrate the proposed DMN. It is found that monopoles with different lengths can be used for the design frequency by using this DMN, which increases the design flexibility. This property also enables frequency tuning using the DMN only without having to change the length of the antennas. The proposed DMN uses only one varactor to achieve a tuning range of 18.8% with both return loss and isolation better than 10-dB when the spacing between the antenna is 0.05λ. When the spacing increases to 0.1λ, the simulated tuning range is more than 60%. |
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IEEE |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48528/1/2011-12-30-APL-manuscript.pdf DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2012.2188773 Tang, Xinyi, Mouthaan, Koenraad, & Coetzee, Jacob (2012) Tunable decoupling and matching network for diversity enhancement of closely spaced antennas. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 11, pp. 268-271. |
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Copyright 2012 IEEE |
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School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Science & Engineering Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #090699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified #antenna arrays #compact arrays #mutual coupling #antenna decoupling #antenna diversity #MIMO |
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Journal Article |