Capabilities and fundamental limitations of multi-mode antennas in an array environment
Paper in proceeding, 2016

A numerical study on beam-steering arrays of multi-mode antenna (MMA) elements is presented. Each MMA is capable of supporting multiple orthogonal modes (e.g. differential and common modes) to increase the beam coverage or angular diversity of the array antenna. The goal is to investigate how the performance of such MMAs in terms of maximum scan range and bandwidth is modified by the array mutual coupling environment, in particular for dense regular arrays of connected MMA elements with an element spacing smaller than half wavelength. The final results for sparse irregular arrays are presented and considered to be the favorable array environment.

multi-mode antennas

differential and common modes

array antennas

Author

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

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Sevastopol State University

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

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Stellenbosch University

10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016, Davos, Switzerland, 10-15 April 2016

2164-3342 (ISSN)


978-8-8907-0186-3 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481893

ISBN

978-8-8907-0186-3

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10/8/2017