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Characteristic mode based tradeoff analysis of antenna-chassis interactions for multiple antenna terminals

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Summary, in English

The design of multiple antennas in compact mobile terminals is a significant challenge, due to both practical and fundamental design tradeoffs. In this paper, fundamental antenna design tradeoffs of multiple antenna terminals are presented in the framework of characteristic mode analysis. In particular, interactions between the antenna elements and the characteristic modes and their impact on design tradeoffs are investigated in both theory and simulations. The results reveal that the characteristic modes play an important role in determining the optimal placement of antennas for low mutual coupling. Moreover, the ability of antenna elements to localize the excitation currents on the chassis can significantly influence the final performance. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a dual-band, dual-antenna terminal is designed to provide an isolation of over 10 dB for the 900 MHz band without additional matching or decoupling structures. A tradeoff analysis of bandwidth, efficiency, effective diversity gain and capacity is performed over different antenna locations. Finally, three fabricated prototypes verify the simulation results for representative cases.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

490-502

Publication/Series

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volume

60

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • mobile communication
  • MIMO systems
  • Antenna array mutual coupling

Status

Published

Research group

  • Electromagnetic theory
  • Radio Systems

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0018-926X