Analysis of broadband power combiners and coupled antennas with stochastic load matching in a random field for mm-wave applications

Abstract

In this paper, we present design and experimental verification of integrated power combiners and closely coupled antennas. Several design variants are proposed for assessing effects of stochastic matching on antenna correlations as function of frequency up to 110GHz. Broadband equivalent circuit models accounting for radiation effects are extracted for proper random EM-Fields-Circuit Co-Design and Co-Analysis. Perspectives for Cognitive Built-In-Self-Test implementing real-time tuning of stochastic matching with EM-Thermal energy harvesting are drawn for mm-Wave MIMO and Phased-Array applications.