Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2014
Session Number:FR1E
Session:
Number:FR1E_01
3-element super-directive endfire array with decoupling network
Akira Noguchi, Hiroyuki Arai,
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Publication Date:2014/12/2
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
This paper presents a 3-element super-directive array antenna as a small and high gain antenna. Super-directive array is closely spaced array antenna and its directivity of an end-fire liner array of N isotropic radiators is N2. However, antenna characteristics are degraded by strong mutual coupling. The proposed antenna can achieve antenna gain of 8.14dB by using decoupling network to suppress mutual coupling effect.