Small Antennas:Miniaturization Techniques & Applications - Hardcover

Volakis, John; Chen, Chi-Chih; Fujimoto, Kyohei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071625534 ISBN 13: 9780071625531

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2010

Synopsis

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Next-generation small antenna design techniques

This authoritative text provides the most up-to-date methods on the theory and design of small antennas, including an extensive survey of small antenna literature published over the past several years. Written by experts at the forefront of antenna research, Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques & Applications begins with a detailed presentation of small antenna theory--narrowband and wideband--and progresses to small antenna design methods, such as materials and shaping approaches for multiband and wideband antennas.

Generic miniaturization techniques are presented for narrowband, multiband, and wideband antennas. Two chapters devoted to metamaterials antennas and methods to achieve optimal small antennas, as well as a chapter on RFID technologies and related antennas, are included in this comprehensive volume. Coverage includes:

• Small antenna theory and optimal parameters
• Theory and limits of wideband electrically small antennas
• Extensive literature survey of small antenna designs
• Practical antenna miniaturization approaches
• Conformal wideband antennas based on spirals
• Negative refractive index (NRI) metamaterial and electromagnetic band gap (EBG) based antennas
• Small antennas based on magnetic photonic and degenerate band edge crystals
• Impedance matching for small antennas using passive and active circuits
• RFID antennas and technology

About this title

From the Publisher

Describes some of the more up-to-date developments in the design of small antennas from both the analytical and practical aspects, taking as examples the discretely- and continuously-loaded wire antennas. Discusses the principles of small antenna design and examines analytically the performance of small antennas when affixed onto real-life objects. Coverage encompasses applications and requirements for small and low-profile antennas, fundamental principles associated with small antenna design--particularly bandwidth and efficiency requirements, types of wire antennas (with and without discrete loadings, either passive or active), an alternative method of loading to give height reduction, performance of antennas located on or near real size objects, and much more. Includes a user's guide to small antenna types now available. Illustrated.

About the Author

John L. Volakis, Ph.D., is Dean of Engineering & Computing and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Previously, he was the Chope Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University and Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory. He is the editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill's Antenna  Engineering Handbook.

Chi-Chih Chen, Ph.D., is a research scientist at the ElectroScience Laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of the Ohio State University.

Kyohei Fujimoto is a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and consulting professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University, China.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0071625534
• ISBN 13: 9780071625531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448