In this paper a novel method for computing the radiation pattern and also the input impedance of a planar rectangular micro-strip antenna array with consideration of mutual coupling and mutual impedance is presented. Each two triangles with a common edge make an Edge element or RWG. Any such edge element is considered as an infinitesimal dipole. The electrical currents over each dipole can be c...

Habib and Rupp [3] provided analytical results for mutual coupling between multiple dipole antennas with angular or spatial separation. However, the method of deriving mutual coupling from mutual impedance involved several inconsistencies on which depend the final results of multiple antenna system capacity presented in their paper. First, the expression of mutual impedance matrix (12) in [3] i...

The performance of ESPRIT in direction of arrival estimation at linear array monopole antennas operating at 2.4GHz is investigated. The mutual coupling that occurs between elements of the array is compensated for by using two techniques. The first technique is the open-circuit voltage method and the second method involves redefining the mutual impedance so that it can characterise the mutual co...

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems promise higher data rates and better quality of service for wireless communications, by using multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver. However, applying MIMO technology at small portable wireless devices is faced with the problem of mutual coupling between antenna elements due to the limited space to put multiple antennas. It is shown...

Recently, a widely use of High Impedance Surface (HIS) structures in several applications such as in radar and telecommunication systems have been described in the literature. An interesting characteristic of the High Impedance Surface (HIS) is that it can be used to reduce the mutual coupling between microstrip antennas. In this paper, firstly the band-gap features of three types of high imped...

A new model for tacking mutual coupling in wireless communications is introduced. A new concept of receiving mutual impedance is introduced and explained theoretically. Receiving mutual impedances for typical antenna arrays are obtained. Application of the new method is demonstrated in several arrays for direction finding, adaptive nulling, and MIMO communications.

An equivalent circuit model for predicting the frequency response of a square ring slot frequency selective surface (SRS-FSS) for normal incidence is described. The proposed FSS consists of an array of square patches centered within a wire grid. The presented circuit model is formed by the impedance of the wire grid that is parallel with the impedance of the patch array, also the mutual couplin...