A Fast Calculation Method for the Receiving Mutual Impedances of Uniform Circular Arrays

A fast and accurate method is introduced for the determination of the receiving mutual impedances of uniform circular arrays (UCAs) with omnidirectional antenna elements. By using the symmetry consideration for UCAs, the number of unknown receiving mutual impedances is reduced by at least 2(N-1) tim...

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Published in:IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters 2012, Vol.11, p.893-896
Main Authors: Du, Wei, Su, Donglin, Xie, Shuguo, Hui, Hon Tat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna arrays
Dipole antennas
Impedance
Mutual coupling
Mutual coupling (MC)
Receiving antennas
receiving mutual impedance
uniform circular array (UCA)
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Summary:A fast and accurate method is introduced for the determination of the receiving mutual impedances of uniform circular arrays (UCAs) with omnidirectional antenna elements. By using the symmetry consideration for UCAs, the number of unknown receiving mutual impedances is reduced by at least 2(N-1) times of that by using a full characterization method. A further improvement of using only a single calibration signal coming from a single incident angle makes the new method much more efficient in facilitating the determination of the receiving mutual impedances of UCAs by either theoretical calculations or by an experimental measurement. Our simulation results and a direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation example study demonstrate the efficiency and validity of the new method.
ISSN:1536-1225
1548-5757
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2012.2211329