Minimization of Mutual Coupling Interferences Between Nearby Antenna Arrays to Retain Their Beam Steering Functionality

Autor: Hsi-Tseng Chou, Chen-Yi Chang, Danai Torrungrueng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 11, Pp 87430-87441 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3305253
Popis: This paper presents an effective excitation synthesis algorithm of phased arrays of antennas to optimize the radiation patterns under minimum mutual coupling/induction interferences between two nearby arrays. The optimization goal is to minimize the inter-array interferences in an attempt to retain their radiation beam characteristics. Furthermore, a cost function is defined to reduce the inter-array reaction and the excitation weighting deviations from the desired ones for directional beam radiations by embedding a coupling reduction factor (CRF). The resulting solutions are in a simple closed-form for easy implementation. Besides, the mutual coupling/induction mechanisms are effectively interpreted using the singular-value decomposition (SVD) method to create an eigenspace for signal representations and the complementary null space. Finally, theoretical and numerical full-wave simulation examples are presented to validate the proposed mutual coupling/induction suppression method.
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