Electromagnetic analysis of planar array structures with MPIE-MoM method and neighborhood mutual coupling

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 2746-2754
Author(s):  
P. Padilla de la Torre ◽  
J.M. Fernández ◽  
M. Sierra-Castañer
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Sun ◽  
Minglei Yang ◽  
Baixiao Chen

Sparse planar arrays, such as the billboard array, the open box array, and the two-dimensional nested array, have drawn lots of interest owing to their ability of two-dimensional angle estimation. Unfortunately, these arrays often suffer from mutual-coupling problems due to the large number of sensor pairs with small spacing d (usually equal to a half wavelength), which will degrade the performance of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. Recently, the two-dimensional half-open box array and the hourglass array are proposed to reduce the mutual coupling. But both of them still have many sensor pairs with small spacing d, which implies that the reduction of mutual coupling is still limited. In this paper, we propose a new sparse planar array which has fewer number of sensor pairs with small spacing d. It is named as the thermos array because its shape seems like a thermos. Although the resulting difference coarray (DCA) of the thermos array is not hole-free, a large filled rectangular part in the DCA can be facilitated to perform spatial-smoothing-based DOA estimation. Moreover, it enjoys closed-form expressions for the sensor locations and the number of available degrees of freedom. Simulations show that the thermos array can achieve better DOA estimation performance than the hourglass array in the presence of mutual coupling, which indicates that our thermos array is more robust to the mutual-coupling array.


1989 ◽  
Vol 72 (10) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihiko Konishi ◽  
Hitoshi Mizutamari ◽  
Shin-Ichi Sato ◽  
Seiji Mano ◽  
Takashi Katagi

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quanjiang Zhu ◽  
Shiwen Yang ◽  
Ruilin Yao ◽  
Zai-Ping Nie

1998 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Darwood ◽  
P.N. Fletcher ◽  
G.S. Hilton

1987 ◽  
Vol 23 (21) ◽  
pp. 1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Kitchener ◽  
K. Raghavan ◽  
C.G. Parini
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