1st Edition

Low-Visibility Antennas for Communication Systems

By Albert Sabban Copyright 2016
    295 Pages 33 Color & 304 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    295 Pages 33 Color & 304 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Low-visibility antennas have many attractive features, such as being low-profile, flexible, lightweight, small-volume, and low-cost. Low-Visibility Antennas for Communication Systems provides explicit guidelines for the development of these antennas. Offering valuable insight into emerging antenna technologies, the book:

    • Introduces the fundamental theory of electromagnetics and antennas with few integral and differential equations, improving accessibility while providing sufficient mathematical detail
    • Presents state-of-the-art advancements in microstrip, millimeter (mm) wave microstrip, wearable, wearable tunable printed, wideband wearable meta-material, and fractal printed antennas
    • Discusses microwave integrated circuits (MICs), monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC)

    Low-Visibility Antennas for Communication Systems delivers a comprehensive and cutting-edge study of the design and application of low-visibility antennas, complete with design considerations, computed and measured results, and an extensive exploration of radio frequency and antenna measurements.

    Electromagnetic Theory and Transmission Lines
    Definitions
    Electromagnetic Waves
    Transmission Lines
    Matching Techniques
    Coaxial Transmission Line
    Microstrip Line
    Materials
    Waveguides
    Circular Waveguide
    References

    Basic Antenna Theory
    Introduction to Antennas
    Antenna Parameters
    Dipole Antenna
    Basic Aperture Antennas
    Horn Antennas
    References

    Low-Visibility Printed Antennas
    Microstrip Antennas
    Two-Layer Stacked Microstrip Antennas
    Stacked Monopulse Ku Band Patch Antenna
    Loop Antennas
    Wired Loop Antenna
    Radiation Pattern of a Loop Antenna Near a Metal Sheet
    Planar Inverted-F Antenna
    References

    Antenna Array
    Introduction
    Array Radiation Pattern
    Broadside Array
    End-Fire Array
    Printed Arrays
    Stacked Microstrip Antenna Arrays
    Ka Band Microstrip Antenna Arrays
    Series Fed Microstrip Arrays
    Stacked Series Fed Microstrip Eight-Element Array
    Stacked Series Parallel Fed Microstrip 64-Element Array
    Conclusions
    References

    Applications of Low-Visibility Printed Antennas
    Introduction
    Low-Visibility Microstrip Antenna Arrays with High Efficiency
    W Band Microstrip Antenna Detection Array
    Medical Applications of Microstrip Antennas
    Conclusion
    References

    Wearable Antennas for Medical Applications
    Introduction
    Dually Polarized Wearable 434-MHz Printed Antenna
    Loop Antenna with a Ground Plane
    Antenna S11 Variation as a Function of Distance from the Body
    Wearable Antennas
    Compact Dual Polarized Printed Antenna
    Helix Antenna Performance on the Human Body
    Compact Wearable RFID Antennas
    Conclusions
    References

    Wearable Tunable Printed Antennas for Medical Applications
    Introduction
    Varactor Theory
    Dually Polarized Tunable Printed Antenna
    Antenna S11 Variation as a Function of Distance from the Body
    Tunable Antenna Varactors
    Measurements of Tunable Antennas
    Folded Dual Polarized Tunable Antenna
    Medical Applications for Tunable Antennas
    Conclusions
    References

    New Wideband Wearable Meta-Material Antennas for Communication Applications
    Introduction
    New Antennas with SRRs
    Folded Dipole Meta-Material Antenna with SRRs
    Stacked Patch Antenna Loaded with SRRs
    Patch Antenna Loaded with SRRs
    Meta-Material Antenna Characteristics in the Vicinity of the Human Body
    Meta-Material Wearable Antennas
    Wideband Stacked Patch with SRR
    Small Meta-Material Antenna Analysis
    Conclusion
    References

    Fractal Printed Antennas
    Introduction
    Fractal Structures
    Fractal Antennas
    Antiradar Fractals and/or Multilevel Chaff Dispersers
    Definition of Multilevel Structure
    Advanced Antenna System
    Comparison between Euclidean and Fractal Antennas
    Multilevel and Space-Filling Ground Planes for Miniature and Multiband Antennas
    Applications of Fractal Printed Antennas
    New Fractal Printed Antennas Using Double-Layer Hilbert Curves
    Conclusions
    References

    Microwave and MM Wave Technologies
    Introduction
    Microwave Integrated Circuits
    Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
    MEMS Technology
    LTCC and HTCC Technology
    Conclusions
    References

    Radio Frequency Measurements
    Introduction
    Multiport Networks with N Ports
    Scattering Matrix
    S-Parameter Measurements
    Transmission Measurements
    Output Power and Linearity Measurements
    Antenna Measurements
    Antenna Range Setup
    References

    Biography

    Albert Sabban holds a Ph.D from the University of Colorado Boulder, USA; an M.Sc from Tel Aviv University, Israel; and a US patent on wideband microstrip antennas. Dr. Sabban is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at ORT Braude College, Karmiel, Israel. He was previously a senior R&D scientist and project leader at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Haifa, Israel; a teaching assistant in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; and a research assistant in the Microwave and Millimeter Wave Computer Aided Design Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.

    "… focused on small antennas, where interactions with small volume objects and with the human body have utmost importance. … provides detailed information on how to understand and design small antennas in such environments. Antenna designers will gain fresh ideas from insight into the author's experience."
    —Prof. Ely Levine, Afeka College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel