MIMO reference antennas for OTA applications

Author

Shuai Zhang ; Kun Zhao ; Bangguo Zhu ; Zhinong Ying ; Sailing He

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., KTH-R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

2556

Lastpage

2557

Abstract

In this paper, MIMO reference antennas with different correlation coefficients are proposed for Over-The-Air (OTA) applications. The correlation can be simply controlled through a slot etched on a dual-feed PIFA with the similar total efficiency. Three kinds of situations are investigated with the proposed method: high correlation (HC), mid correlation (MC), and low correlation (LC). In order to verify the introduced idea, the measurements of correlations and efficiencies are carried out in a reverberation chamber. The simulation and measurement agree well with each other.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna feeds; correlation methods; planar inverted-F antennas; reverberation chambers; slot antenna arrays; HC; LC; MC; MIMO reference antennas; OTA applications; correlation coefficients; correlation measurement; dual-feed PIFA; efficiency measurement; high correlation; low correlation; mid correlation; multiple-input-and-multiple-output technology; over-the-air applications; reverberation chamber; Correlation; MIMO; MIMO; OTA; antenna array;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546758