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Performance Of Polarization Diversity In A Linear Array Antenna, Amean S. Al_Safi

Amean S Al_Safi

Multiple antennas systems require a separation distance between these antennas greater than or equal half wavelength. In this paper, we study the ability to reduce these separation distance by virtue of polarization diversity, i.e each two adjacent antenna replaced by one dual polarized antenna .The obtained results show that the use of polarization will reduce the required separation distance between antennas and the performance will be best, and these improvement will be more useful at the systems with greater number of antennas, increasing the correlation between antennas due to the separation angle will reduce the channel capacity. The results also …