Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition

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Название:Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition

Автор John Volakis

Издательство: McGraw-Hill

Год: 2007

Страниц:1755

Язык: English

Формат: pdf

Размер: 62 Mb

The "bible of antenna engineering" fully updated to provide state-of-the-art coverage in antenna design and applications

Edited by John L. Volakis, one of the world's leading authorities in antenna engineering, this trusted resource covers all the classic antenna types plus many new types and designs used in communications systems, satellites, radars, and emerging applications from WLAN to automotive systems to biomedical to smart antennas.

You will also find expert discussion of topics critical to successful antenna design and engineering, such as measurement techniques and computational methods, a materials guide, wave propagation basics, microwave circuits, and matching techniques, as well as diversity and MIMO propagation models, frequency selective surfaces, and metamaterials. Packed with 1,500 illustrations, the 4th Edition of Antenna Engineering Handbook presents:

Step-by-step guidance on most antennas (modern and classic)

59 chapters with 21 new chapters and 38 fully updated chapters from the previous edition

Contributions from over 80 well-known antenna experts

Full-color insert illustrating many commercial and military antennas

Get Quick Access to All of Today's Cutting-Edge Antennas

• Printed and Conformal Antennas • Wideband Patch Antennas • Wideband Arrays • Leaky-Wave Antennas • EBG Antennas • UWB Antennas and Arrays • Portable TV Antennas • Reconfigurable Antennas • Active Antennas • Millimeter Wave and TeraHertz Antennas • Fractal Antennas • Handset and Terminal Antennas • Biomedical Antennas • ECM and ESM antennas • Dielectric Resonator Antennas • Lens Antennas • Radiometer Antennas • Satellite Antennas • Reflector and Earth Station Antennas • and Dozens More!

Table of contents

Part 1: Introduction and Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Ants,Arrays & Mobile Communications

Chapter 2: Frequency Bands for Military and Commercial Applications

Chapter 3: Arrays of Discrete Elements

Part 2: Types and Design Methods

Chapter 4: Dipoles and Monopoles

Chapter 5: Loop Antennas

Chapter 6: Small Antennas

Chapter 7: Microstrip Antennas

Chapter 8: Slot Antennas

Chapter 9: Waveguide Slot Antenna Arrays

Chapter 10: Surface-Wave Antennas

Chapter 11: Leaky Wave Antennas

Chapter 12: Helical Antennas

Chapter 13: Frequency Independent Antennas

Chapter 14: Horn Antennas

Chapter 15: Reflector Antennas

Chapter 16: Wideband Microstrip Antennas

Chapter 17: Dielectric Resonator Antennas

Chapter 18: Lens Antennas

Chapter 19: Ultrawide Bandwidth Antenna Design

Chapter 20: Phased Arrays

Chapter 21: Array Phase Shifters: Theory and Technology

Chapter 22: Conformal and Low-Profile Arrays

Chapter 23: Millimeter-Wave and Teraherz Antennas

Chapter 24: Ultra Wideband Arrays

Chapter 25: Smart Antennas

Chapter 26: Methods of Polarization Synthesis

Part 3: Applications

Chapter 27: Low- and Medium-Frequency Antennas

Chapter 28: HF Antennas

Chapter 29: VHF and UHF Antennas for Communications

Chapter 30: Portable TV Antennas

Chapter 31: Reconfigurable Antennas

Chapter 32: Active Antennas

Chapter 33: Fractal Antennas

Chapter 34: Low Profile Antenna Performance Enhancement Utilizing Engineered Electromagnetic Materials

Chapter 35: Reflectarray Antennas

Chapter 36: Mobile Handset Antennas

Chapter 37: Broadband Planar Antennas for High Speed Wireless Communications

Chapter 38: Antennas for Medical Applications

Chapter 39: Automobile Antennas

Chapter 40: Aircraft Antennas

Chapter 41: Radiometer Antennas

Chapter 42: Antenna Tracking

Chapter 43: Microwave Beacon Antennas

Chapter 44: Satellite Antennas

Chapter 45: Earth Station Antennas

Chapter 46: Seeker Antennas

Chapter 47: Direction Finding Antennas and Systems

Chapter 48: ESM and ECM Antennas

Chapter 49: Radio-Telescope Antennas

Chapter 50: Indoor Antenna Measurements

Part 4: Topics Associated with Antennas

Chapter 51: Transmission Lines and Waveguides

Chapter 52: Impedance Matching, Broadbanding, and Baluns

Chapter 53: Randomes

Chapter 54: Propagation

Chapter 55: Materials and Design Data

Chapter 56: Frequency Selective Surfaces

Chapter 57: Propagation Models and Antennas for MIMO

Chapter 58: Multipath Techniques for Handset/Terminal Antennas

Chapter 59: Computational Electromagetics for Antennas

Author comments

John L. Volakis is the Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor of Engineering and also serves as Director of the Electroscience Laboratory. A native of Chios, Greece, Dr. Volakis obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1982 and was a professor at The University of Michigan (1984-2002) prior to returning to The Ohio State University. He has co-authored over 240 journal articles and 350 conference papers, and is co-author of the books: Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (IEE Press) Finite Element Method for Electromagnetics (IEEE Press-Wiley), and Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods in Electromagnetics (Morgan & Claypool). Dr. Volakis is a Fellow of IEEE and a former President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He graduated/mentored over 50 Ph.D. students/post-docs and is listed by ISI among the top 250 most referenced authors in Engineering/Computer Science.