Investigation of planar and conformal printed arrays for MIMO performance analysis

Author

Tunc, Celal Alp ; Irci, Erdinc ; Bakir, Onur ; Aktas, Defne ; Erturk, Vakur B. ; Altintas, Ayhan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bilkent Univ., Ankara

fYear

2006

fDate

6-10 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

MIMO channel capacity of printed arrays with dipole elements is analyzed. A MIMO channel model based on electric fields is used. The effects of mutual interactions among the array elements through space and surface waves are included into the channel matrix using a full-wave hybrid Method of Moments (MoM)/Green´s function technique in the spatial domain. MIMO capacity of printed arrays is then compared with that of free standing thin wire dipole arrays. Results show better performance of printed arrays.

Keywords

MIMO communication; channel capacity; method of moments; Green function; MIMO channel capacity; MIMO performance analysis; channel matrix; conformal printed arrays; method of moments; planar printed arrays; Antenna arrays; Channel capacity; Green´s function methods; Light scattering; MIMO; Mutual coupling; Performance analysis; Surface waves; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmitters; MIMO; conformal printed arrays; mutual coupling; planar printed arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2006. EuCAP 2006. First European Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

978-92-9092-937-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUCAP.2006.4584847

Filename

4584847