Broadband Planar Antennas Meet Customer Demands for Smaller and Low Profile Designs.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c31186 ) has announced the addition of Broadband Planar Antennas: Design and Applications to their offering.

The increasing demand for wireless communications has revolutionised the lifestyle of today's society and one of the key components of wireless technology is antenna design. Traditional antenna designs can be used but the increasingly sophisticated customer is demanding smaller, low profile designs. Communication devices today often need to operate over multiple bands and broad bands due to various applications such as GSM, WCDMA and WLAN etc. and thus, there is the need for antennas with broad bandwidths in terms of impedance, gain and radiation performance. Broadband planar antennas are the newest generation of antennas boasting the attractive features required, such as low profile, light-weight, low cost and ease of integration into arrays, to make them ideal components of modern communications systems.

Research into small and broadband antennas has been spurred by the rapid development of portable wireless communication devices such as cell phones, laptops and personal digital assistants. This all-encompassing volume, Broadband Planar Antennas: Design and Applications, systematically describes the techniques for all planar antennas from microstrip patch antennas, suspended plate antennas and planar inverted-L/F antennas to planar dipole antennas. Also discussed are some of the most recent outcomes such as broadband antenna issues in promising ultra-wideband applications. It clearly describes the fundamentals of planar antennas and categorises them according to their radiation characteristics. Introduces the advanced progress in broadband planar antennas for modern wireless communications. Includes a wealth of case studies, design guidelines, figures and tables. This text is essential reading for antenna, RF and microwave engineers and manufacturers within the telecommunications industry. Its highly accessible approach will also appeal to researchers, postgraduate students and academic lecturers.

Topics Covered

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Planar Radiators.

--1.1 Introduction.

--1.2 Bandwidth Definitions.

--1.3 Planar Antennas.

--1.4 Overview of this Book.

--References.

2 Broadband Microstrip Patch Antennas.

--2.1 Introduction.

--2.2 Important Features of Microstrip Patch Antennas.

--2.3 Broadband Techniques.

--References.

3 Broadband Suspended Plate Antennas.

--3.1 Introduction.

--3.2 Techniques to Broaden Impedance Bandwidth.

--3.4 Arrays with Suspended Plate Elements.

--References.

4 Planar Inverted-L/F Antennas.

--4.1 Introduction.

--4.2 The Inverted-L/F Antenna.

--4.3 Broadband Planar Inverted-F/L Antenna. 4.3.1 Planar Inverted-F Antenna.

--4.4 Case Studies.

5 Planar Monopole Antennas and Ultra-wideband Applications.

--5.1 Introduction.

--5.2 Planar Monopole Antenna.

--5.3 Planar Antennas for UWB Applications. 5.3.1 Ultra-wideband Technology.

--5.4 Case Studies.

--References.

--Index

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