A general model of the mutual impedance between Hertzian Dipoles

We derive a new formula describing the mutual impedance between Hertzian dipoles. The Hertzian dipole model is an antenna model describing the behaviour of very small and infinitessimally thin antennas. In a system of N such dipoles their behaviour is modeled by the impedance matrix Z. The diagonal elements of Z are the self-impedances of the dipoles, whereas the nondiagonal elements contain the respective mutual impedances between the dipoles. In the case of parallel oriented planar placed dipoles a formula describing the mutual impedance has already been derived in 2009. We extend this formula in this Thesis to arbitrary oriented and positioned Hertzian dipoles. This has applications to classical information theory, especially in the MIMO area.