Reduction of Coupling between Flush-Mounted Antennas

Authors

  • Prathap Valale Prasannakumar Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado, USA, 80309
  • Mohamed A. Elmansouri Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado, USA, 80309
  • Maxim Ignatenko Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado, USA, 80309
  • Dejan Filipovic Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado, USA, 80309

Keywords:

Bed of nails, coupling, method of moments

Abstract

This paper discusses some numerical aspects of the coupling study between two flush-mounted antennas. It is shown that a bed of nails embedded between flush-mounted quad-ridge horns separated by 20 cm (4 lambda 6 GHz) edge-to-edge greatly reduces coupling by about 17 dB at lower frequency end, where the electrical distance between antennas is the shortest. The considered antenna system operates from 6-19 GHz and has |S11| < -10 dB, and coupling < -60 dB. The numerical modelling is carried out using MoM and FEM solvers. The computed results are in good agreement with measurements.

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Published

2021-07-22

How to Cite

[1]
Prathap Valale Prasannakumar, Mohamed A. Elmansouri, Maxim Ignatenko, and Dejan Filipovic, “Reduction of Coupling between Flush-Mounted Antennas”, ACES Journal, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 1154–1155, Jul. 2021.

Issue

2018: Vol 33 Iss 10

Section

General Submission