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
fDate :
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, IEE Proceedings
DOI :
10.1049/ip-map:20000433
