Perspectives in Antenna Technology: Recent Advances and Systems Applications

The definitive volume of recent innovations in antenna technology developed for a wide variety of system applications at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Antenna technology plays a key role in enabling next-generation sensing and communications for ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne systems across a wide spectrum of frequencies and applications. Advances in RF microelectronics, commercial high-volume manufacturing and packaging, high-fidelity modeling and simulation tools, and affordable high-speed digital signal processing offer new options for next-generation antenna systems. Perspectives in Antenna Technology, by Jeffrey S. Herd, Alan J. Fenn, and M. David Conway, describes a variety of antenna research and development projects from MIT Lincoln Laboratory over the past fifteen years. In addition to highlighting current systems applications for the new antenna technologies, the book provides a modern perspective on the evolution of antenna technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

The contributors to this book are all from MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The developments covered include those aimed at reducing the cost of phased array antennas by leveraging high-volume printed circuit board manufacturing and highly integrated packaging techniques; novel solutions to enable ultra-lightweight deployable antennas for space and airborne applications; vector sensor arrays; two unique imaging radar systems, a video-rate microwave imaging system for person-borne concealed threat detection and a system capable of ultrawideband imaging of satellites; simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) antennas; a variety of novel wideband array antennas, including dual-polarized stepped-notch arrays and coupled dipole arrays; and several types of custom millimeter wave (mmWave) antennas.

Jeffrey S. Herd is Group Leader of the RF Technology Group in the Advanced Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Alan J. Fenn is Senior Staff in the RF Technology Group in the Advanced Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

M. David Conway is Senior Staff in the RF Technology Group in the Advanced Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.