Planar Soft Surfaces and Their Application to Mutual Coupling Reduction
Journal article, 2009

This paper presents a numerical study of the behavior of a planar version of traditional soft surfaces. The application of these structures, although limited to one direction, can be enough for many applications where the directions along which the waves must be suppressed are clearly defined. The proposed soft surface is compact and its design is flexible due to the different parameters of the structure. This work analyzes the effects of all these parameters in both the position and size of the bandgap or stop band. Also a practical application to reduce mutual coupling in patch antennas is presented. The work is supported by experimental results.

soft surface

band

ground planes

Bandgap

surface wave

substrate

patch

ebg structure

mutual coupling

Author

Eva Rajo

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Oscar Quevedo Teruel

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

L. Inclan-Sanchez

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

0018926x (ISSN) 15582221 (eISSN)

Vol. 57 12 3852-3859 5061599

Subject Categories

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2009.2024226

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