• DocumentCode
    1355449
  • Title

    TLM analysis of the mutual coupling of microstrip patch antenna arrays

  • Author

    Yang, S. ; Gosling, I.G. ; Tan, I. G Gosling S H ; Sorwar, M.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore
  • Volume
    147
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    207
  • Lastpage
    210
  • Abstract
    The transmission-line matrix (TLM) method is used to simulate the mutual coupling effect between two rectangular microstrip patch antennas, which are covered with a dielectric layer. A novel graded Heaviside absorbing layer (HAL) is used as the absorbing boundary condition to truncate the computational space. The numerical results obtained are compared with those of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method as well as the published theoretical and experimental results of other authors, and good agreements are obtained
  • Keywords
    antenna theory; electromagnetic coupling; microstrip antenna arrays; transmission line matrix methods; Heaviside absorbing layer; TLM analysis; absorbing boundary condition; dielectric layer; microstrip patch antenna arrays; mutual coupling; numerical results; rectangular microstrip patch antennas; transmission-line matrix method;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, IEE Proceedings
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1350-2417
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/ip-map:20000433
  • Filename
    850630