A compact low coupling orthogonal bi-polarized multi-antenna for MIMO channel measurements

Author

Yan, Gang ; Du, Zhengwei ; Gong, Ke

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2005

fDate

3-8 July 2005

Firstpage

18

Abstract

A compact low mutual coupling multi-antenna with two orthogonal dipole antennas and integrated baluns is proposed for MIMO channel measurements in this paper. The phase centers of the two printed antennas are compact to distinguish the space fading in small scale in the channel measurements. The two printed antennas are arranged without intersection of the conductors except at the ground plate to lower the close current circle between two feed ports, so the mutual coupling of the two compact printed antennas is low. Moreover, the far-field of each printed antenna is close to that of an idea dipole antenna, so the multi-antenna maintains the correlation characteristics of the MIMO channel in the measurements.

Keywords

MIMO systems; adaptive antenna arrays; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; baluns; correlation methods; dipole antenna arrays; electromagnetic coupling; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microstrip antenna arrays; MIMO channel measurements; antenna far-field; compact low coupling multi-antenna; correlation characteristics; feed ports; integrated baluns; mutual coupling; orthogonal bi-polarized multi-antenna; orthogonal dipole antennas; phase centers; printed antennas; space fading; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Electric variables measurement; Impedance matching; MIMO; Microwave measurements; Mutual coupling; Polarization; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8883-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2005.1552727

Filename

1552727