Research Article

Two-Step Decoupling Design of a Microstrip Antenna Array by Using Waveguided Complementary Split-Ring Resonators and a Fully Connected Neural Network

Table 1

Comparison of simulated and measured results of the proposed arrays by different design methods.

DesignGeometric parameters (mm)S21 (dB)S11 (dB)
SimulatedMeasuredSimulatedMeasured

FCNNL = 8a = 9.23b = 14.0D = 2.3−38.24−39.09−17.89−29.11
L = 7a = 9.32b = 13.0D= 2.5−40.45−41.05−28.02−37.34
L = 6a = 9.42b = 12.6D = 2.5−62.20−52.33−33.12−30.60

EML = 8a = 9.34b = 12.3D = 3.6−29.48−31.32−30.68−26.81