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1242 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNASAND PROPAGATION,VOL. 41,NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 1993 An Analysis of Antenna Coupling Between Arrays on a Polyhedron Structure Hiroaki Miyashita, Member, ZEEE, Yonehiko Sunahara, Member, IEEE, Ryuji Ishii, Takashi Katagi, Senior Member, IEEE, and Tsutomu Hashimoto, Fellow, IEEE Abstract-Antenna coupling between arrays on a polyhedron is applied to the calculation of the mutual admittance structure is investigated. First of all, a high-frequency asymp- between them, and it gives a closed-form result. Mutual totic closed-form formula is derived for the mutual admittance between two linearly polarized circular microstrip antennas coupling between two elements is calculated from the located on different faces of a perfectly conducting wedge. The result. microstrip antennas are modeled by the cavity model, and the In Section I11 the method is extended to the calculation mutual coupling caused by the wedge-diffracted field is analyzed of antenna coupling between arrays on a polyhedron by the EMF method using Kellers GTD diffraction coefficients structure. The antenna coupling is defined as mutual for the diffracted field. Next, the antenna coupling between arrays is calculated and compared with an experimental result. couplings between a radiating element in one array and Good agreement between them supports the theory. Finally, the all radiating elements in the other array. properties of the antenna coupling are described by some nu- In SectionIV an experimentalverification of the method merical simulations. is carried out. Mutual couplings between a circular MSA and a phased array which has 128circular MSA elements located on different faces of a polyhedron are measured. I. INTRODUCTION The measured coupling level due to beam steering of the ULTIFUNCTION antennas are required for re- array and the level calculated by the theory are in good Mc