{"title":"Mutual scattering mode for LTE MIMO antennas and its application to correlation reduction","authors":"Shuai Zhang, Z. Ying, Sailing He","doi":"10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333124","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A - mutual scattering mode -is introduced in this paper as a novel method to reduce the correlation for the LTE MIMO antenna arrays. This mode is mainly based on the increase of the Q factor for the closely-positioned MIMO antenna elements. With the increased Q factor, each element becomes a scatter for the other elements. Consequently, without adding any structure in the MIMO system, the radiation patterns will be separated to achieve a low correlation (even close to zero) in LTE 700 MHz bands. In practice, this high Q factor is realized through better impedance matching, which makes this mode quite easy to excite. When the effective MIMO element distance is larger than a certain value, better matching (higher Q factor) can not only reduce the correlation but also improve the efficiency (even though the mutual coupling becomes stronger).","PeriodicalId":178493,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333124","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A - mutual scattering mode -is introduced in this paper as a novel method to reduce the correlation for the LTE MIMO antenna arrays. This mode is mainly based on the increase of the Q factor for the closely-positioned MIMO antenna elements. With the increased Q factor, each element becomes a scatter for the other elements. Consequently, without adding any structure in the MIMO system, the radiation patterns will be separated to achieve a low correlation (even close to zero) in LTE 700 MHz bands. In practice, this high Q factor is realized through better impedance matching, which makes this mode quite easy to excite. When the effective MIMO element distance is larger than a certain value, better matching (higher Q factor) can not only reduce the correlation but also improve the efficiency (even though the mutual coupling becomes stronger).