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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Decoupling Network Comprising Transmission Lines and Bridge Resistance for Two-Element Array Antenna

Shumo LI, Naoki HONMA

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This paper presents a novel decoupling network consisting of transmission lines and a bridge resistance for a two-element array antenna and evaluates its performance through simulations and measurements. To decouple the antennas, the phase of the mutual admittance between the antenna ports is rotated by using the transmission lines, and a pure resistance working as a bridge resistance is inserted between the two antenna ports to cancel the mutual coupling. The simulation results indicate that the proposed decoupling network can provide a wider bandwidth than the conventional approach. The proposed decoupling network is implemented and tested as a demonstration to confirm its performance. The measurement results indicate that the mutual coupling between the two antenna ports is lowered by about 47dB at the resonant frequency.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E97-B No.7 pp.1395-1402
Publication Date
2014/07/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1395
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Antennas and Propagation

Authors

Shumo LI
  Iwate University
Naoki HONMA
  Iwate University

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