Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design & Engineering

by Frank Gross

Overview

The state of the art in antenna design and engineering

Edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on smart antennas and featuring contributions from global experts, Frontiers in Antennas discusses the latest advances in antenna design and engineering. This pioneering guide deals primarily with frontier antenna designs and frontier numerical methods. Many of the concepts presented have emerged within the last few years and are still in a rapid state of development. Each chapter provides in-depth details on a unique and modern antenna technology.

Frontiers in Antennas covers:

• Ultra-wideband antenna arrays using fractal, polyfractal, and aperiodic geometries
• Smart antennas using evolutionary signal processing methods
• The latest developments in Vivaldi antenna arrays
• Effective media models applied to artificial magnetic conductors and high impedance surfaces
• Novel developments in metamaterial antennas
• Biological antenna design methods using genetic algorithms
• Contact and parasitic methods applied to reconfigurable antennas
• Antennas in medicine: ingestible capsule antennas using conformal meandered methods
• Leaky-wave antennas
• Plasma antennas which can electronically appear and disappear
• Numerical methods in antenna modeling using time, frequency, and conformal domain decomposition methods

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071637947
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/22/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Frank B. Gross, Ph.D., served as a professor in Electrical Engineering at the Florida State University for 18 years, teaching and performing research in antennas, radar, sonar, microwave engineering, energy conversion, propagation, and electromagnetics. He earned an award as the Tau Beta Pi Teacher of the Year. Dr. Gross worked with the MITRE Corporation, Georgia Tech Research Institute, SAIC, and is currently a senior scientist at Argon ST. He has more than 35 years of experience in radar, smart antennas, electromagnetics, antenna design, and propagation. Dr. Gross wrote Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications with Matlab and contributed to Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Ultra-wideband Arrays; Chapter 2. Smart Antennas; Chapter 3. Vivaldi Arrays; Chapter 4. Fragmented Patch Arrays; Chapter 5. Artificial Magnetic Conductors/High Impedance Surfaces; Chapter 6. Metamaterial Antennas; Chapter 7. Biological Antenna Design; Chapter 8. Reconfigurable Antennas; Chapter 9. Fabric/Body Worn Antennas; Chapter 10. Small Antennas; Chapter 11. Leaky Wave Antennas; Chapter 12. Plasma Antennas; Chapter 13. Recent Advances in Antenna Modeling Codes