Dense transmit and receive antenna arrays

Author

Yeang, C.-P. ; Wornell, G.W. ; Zheng, L. ; Krieger, J.

Author_Institution

IHPST, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

11-17 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Recent progress in millimeter-wave and microwave integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing technology has created new opportunities for the development of novel, low-cost antenna array architectures. In such systems, the associated specifications on RF components such as phase-shifters, oscillators, and amplifiers, can be challenging to meet in a cost-effective manner. In this paper, we develop a dense antenna array to ease such RF circuit requirements without sacrificing performance, and demonstrate its effectiveness for transmit and receive beamforming. We also investigate the effects of mutual coupling and impedance matching on the system performance.

Keywords

impedance matching; linear antenna arrays; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; RF circuit; amplifiers; dense transmit antenna arrays; impedance matching; low-cost antenna array architectures; microwave integrated circuit manufacturing technology; millimeter-wave IC technology; mutual coupling effect; oscillators; phase-shifters; receive beamforming; transmit beamforming; uniform linear antenna array; Antenna arrays; Mutual coupling; Quantization; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2010.5561155

Filename

5561155