Printed Antennas for Wireless Communications

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 453
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Printed antennas, also known as microstrip antennas, have a variety of beneficial properties including mechanical durability, conformability, compactness and cheap manufacturing costs. As such, they have a range of applications in both the military and commercial sectors, and are often mounted on the exterior of aircraft and spacecraft as well as incorporated into mobile radio communication devices.

Printed Antennas for Wireless Communications offers a practical guide to state-of-the-art printed antenna technology used for wireless systems. Contributions from renowned global experts within both academia and industry enable the reader to design printed antennas and associated technologies, and offer valuable insights into important breakthroughs in these areas.

• Divided into 3 sections covering fundamental wideband printed radiating elements for wireless systems, small printed antennas for wireless systems, and advanced concepts and applications in wireless systems.
• Provides experimental data and applies theoretical models to present design performance trends and to give the reader an in-depth coverage of the area.
• Presents summaries of different approaches used in solving wireless systems such as WPAN (wireless personal area network) and MIMO (multi-input/ multi-output), offering the reader an overall perspective of the pros and cons of each.
• Focuses on practical design, examples and ‘real world’ solutions.

Printed Antennas for Wireless Communications offers an excellent insight on printed antennas from the theoretical to the practical; hence it will appeal to practicing design engineers within commercial and governmental/ military organistations, as well as postagraduate students and researchers in communications technologyContent:
Chapter 1 Wireless Systems and Printed Antennas (pages 1–35): Dr. Rod Waterhouse and Dalma Novak
Chapter 2 Multilayered Patch Antennas (pages 37–68): Wayne S. T. Rowe
Chapter 3 Printed Quasi?Yagi Antennas (pages 69–102): Kevin M. K. H. Leong and Tatsuo Itoh
Chapter 4 Printed Spiral Antennas (pages 103–132): Chi?Chih Chen and John Volakis
Chapter 5 Printed Folded Beverage Antennas (pages 133–159): Dr. Rod Waterhouse and Dalma Novak
Chapter 6 Printed Tapered Slot Antennas (pages 161–194): Amin M. Abbosh, Marek E. Bialkowski and Hing K. Kan
Chapter 7 Planar Inverted?F Antennas (pages 195–227): Peter S. Hall, E. Lee and C. T. P. Song
Chapter 8 Small Patch?Based Antennas (pages 229–255): Hing K. Kan, Dr. Rod Waterhouse, Dean Pavlickovski and Andrew Y. J. Lee
Chapter 9 Small Multiband Printed Monopole Antennas (pages 257–279): Karu Esselle and Yuehe Ge
Chapter 10 Printed Antennas in Packages (pages 281–296): Jennifer T. Bernhard
Chapter 11 Printed Reflectarray Antennas (pages 297–330): Marek E. Bialkowski, Jose A. Encinar, J. A. Zornoza?Ramirez and F. C.?E. Tsai
Chapter 12 Antennas on Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Other Impedance Surfaces (pages 331–353): Daniel F. Sievenpiper
Chapter 13 Transceiver Architectures for Highly Integrated RF Front?Ends (pages 355–378): Sanjay Raman and Richard M. Svitek
Chapter 14 Frequency?Agile Antennas for a Software?Defined and Cognitive Radio (pages 379–405): J. T. Aberle, S.?H. Oh and G. A. Taylor
Chapter 15 Antenna Evaluation for Communications with Diversity/MIMO (pages 407–445): Rodney Vaughan