Abstract
A theoretical and experimental investigation of the mutual coupling in large two-dimensional periodic planar phased arrays of thin cylindrical monopoles is addressed. A plane wave representation of the active input impedance is used to analyze an infinite array of monopoles. A finite array analysis is used to compute the center element gain pattern and input impedance as a function of the array size and element position. The center element gain pattern is shown to have omnidirectional vertical polarization with a null on-axis and peak gain in the vicinity of 50\deg from broadside. Measurements of the element gain pattern and mutual coupling for a 121-element passively terminated monopole square lattice array are shown to be in good agreement with the theory. The results of the infinite array analysis are compared to theoretical and experimental data in the literature for hexagonal lattice arrays.
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