Evaluation of antenna coupling based on measurements and numerical simulations

Integration of antenna measurements in numerical simulations, based on the equivalent current technique, has been validated in previous activities [1-8]. A link, enabling the export of an accurate numerical model, derived from the measured antenna pattern, to a number of commercial Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) solvers has been created and validated [9-14]. The equivalent current processing and the link have been implemented in the commercial INSIGHT software [4]. This tool has recently been applied to antenna placement problems to investigate the antenna radiation pattern in embedded conditions [1-3]. This paper discuss an extension of the link between measurements and simulations in antenna placement scenarios applied to the evaluation of antenna coupling problems.

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