DocumentCode
2895542
Title
Mutual coupling reduction in waveguide-fed slot array antenna using uniplanar compact EBG (UCEBG) structure
Author
Ghahramani, E. ; Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali ; Boroomandisorkhabi, B. ; Kolagari, M. Hasanalizadeh
Author_Institution
Fac. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., K.N. Toosi Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
fYear
2013
fDate
11-12 Nov. 2013
Firstpage
634
Lastpage
636
Abstract
Reducing mutual coupling is an important topic in array antenna design. This paper proposes a uniplanar compact electromagnetic band-gap (UC-EBG) structure in order to reduce mutual coupling between waveguide-fed slot array antennas by suppressing the unwanted surface waves. The paper proposes a UC-EBG arrays configuration and a waveguide broadside resonant slot arrays of 2 × 5 elements at X-band.
Keywords
antenna feeds; photonic band gap; planar antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; UC-EBG arrays configuration; array antenna design; broadside resonant slot arrays; mutual coupling reduction; uniplanar compact EBG structure; uniplanar compact electromagnetic bandgap structure; waveguide-fed slot array antenna; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Electromagnetic waveguides; Mutual coupling; Periodic structures; Slot antennas; mutual coupling reduction; slot array antenna; uniplanar compact electromagnetic band-gap (UC-EBG);
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2013 Loughborough
Conference_Location
Loughborough
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LAPC.2013.6711978
Filename
6711978
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