Alibakhshikenari, MohammadVirdee, Bal S.Shukla, PanchamkumarSee, Chan H.Abd-Alhameed, RaedKhalily, MohsenFalcone Lanas, Francisco JavierLimiti, Ernesto2019-05-222019-05-2220182079-929210.3390/electronics7090198https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/33110This paper presents a new approach to suppress interference between neighbouring radiating elements resulting from surface wave currents. The proposed technique will enable the realization of low-profile implementation of highly dense antenna configuration necessary in SAR and MIMO communication systems. Unlike other conventional techniques of mutual coupling suppression where a decoupling slab is located between the radiating antennas the proposed technique is simpler and only requires embedding linear slots near the periphery of the patch. Attributes of this technique are (i) significant improvement in the maximum isolation between the adjacent antennas by 26.7 dB in X-band and >15 dB in Ku and K-bands; (ii) reduction in edge-to-edge gap between antennas to 10 mm (0.37 ); and (iii) improvement in gain by >40% over certain angular directions, which varies between 4.5 dBi and 8.2 dBi. The proposed technique is simple to implement at low cost.11 p.application/pdfeng© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.Mutual coupling suppression|Slotted array antennasSynthetic aperture radar (SAR)Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systemsDecoupling methodinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAcceso abierto / Sarbide irekia