@inproceedings{1f680ceb9103456dba72809e917f62c0,
title = "Compact and low-profile MIMO terminal antenna employing bidirectional Yagi-Uda array",
abstract = "This paper proposes a compact and low-profile multi-input multi-output (MIMO) terminal antenna employing the bidirectional Yagi-Uda array. The parasitic antennas that function as a director are designed to maximize the MIMO channel capacity. A parasitic antenna optimization method, in which a 'parasitic channel' is defined, is also proposed. This method is effective in finding the optimum design with a very low computational load. Based on numerical analysis of an indoor environment, the proposed and optimally designed antenna enhances the channel capacity by more than 10% compared to an antenna without parasitic elements even when the space for the antennas is limited such as in a PC card terminal.",
keywords = "MIMO, Parasitic antenna, Pattern, Yagi-Uda array",
author = "N. Honma and K. Nishimori and Y. Takatori and A. Ohta and S. Kubota",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1049/ic.2007.0997",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780863418426",
series = "IET Seminar Digest",
number = "11961",
booktitle = "2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2007",
edition = "11961",
note = "2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2007 ; Conference date: 11-11-2007 Through 16-11-2007",
}