Table of Contents

 

 

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1. General Information About Printed Antennas

1.1. Physical characteristics

1.2. Properties, limitations, and applications

1.3. Printed rectangular antenna viewed as a wide microstrip line

1.4. Manufacturing processes

1.5. Microwave substrates

 

Chapter 2. Transmission Line Model

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Equivalent circuit

2.3. Input impedance

 

Chapter 3. Cavity Model

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Formulation of the electromagnetic problem

3.3. Calculation of expressions for fields and currents of a
rectangular patch

3.4. Expressions for principal modes

3.5. Cartography of modal currents and associated radiation patterns

 

Chapter 4. Radiation of a Printed Antenna

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Modelization using two equivalent radiating slots

4.3. Calculation of the field radiated by a horizontal radiating slot

4.4. Calculation of the field radiated by the rectangular patch

4.5. Determination of the radiation pattern in the principal planes

4.6. Influence of height

4.7. Influence of the ground plane

4.8. Polarization

4.9. Directivity

4.10. Influence of the substrate on resonant frequency: parametric
study based on antenna RCS

 

Chapter 5. Electrical Equivalent Circuit of a Printed Antenna

5.1. Energy considerations

5.2. Equivalent circuit

5.3. Determination of W_E, W_M, and B for a rectangular patch

5.4. Modeling using a tank circuit

5.5. Quality factor of an antenna

5.6. Calculation of radiation quality factor

5.7. Calculation of efficiency

5.8. Influence of surface waves on bandwidth and efficiency

 

Chapter 6. Feeding Circuits for Microstrip Antennas

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Direct coupling by coaxial probe

6.3. Excitation by proximity coupling

6.4. Excitation by slot coupling

 

Chapter 7. Circularly Polarized Antennas

7.1. Principles of circular polarization

7.2. Parasitic radiation — degradation of circular polarization

7.3. Patch fed by single or dual excitation

7.4. Sequential array

7.5. Spiral and quadrifilar helix antennas

7.6. Conclusion

 

Chapter 8. Wideband Antennas

8.1. Multiresonant antennas

8.2. Traveling wave antennas

8.3. Frequency independent antennas

8.4. Ultra‐wideband antennas

8.5. Conclusion

 

Chapter 9. Miniature Antennas

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Which types of antennas should be used for integration?

9.3. Integration limits in a finite volume

9.4. Resonant antennas in fundamental mode

9.5. Bulk reduction techniques

9.6. Multiresonant antennas

9.7. Synthesis and discussion

 

Chapter 10. Reconfigurable Antennas

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Basic topologies and constraints

10.3. Switched components: available technologies

10.4. Frequency reconfigurable antennas (FRAs)

10.5. Introduction to RAs in terms of polarization and
radiation pattern

10.6. Polarized reconfigurable antennas (PRAs)

10.7. Radiation pattern reconfigurable antennas (RPRAs)

 

Chapter 11. Introduction to Antenna Diversity

11.1. Benefits of antenna diversity

11.2. Performance of multiantenna systems

11.3. Multiantenna systems

11.4. Conclusion and looking toward MIMO

 

Bibliography

 

List of Authors

 

Index