Broadband Microstrip Antennas

Girish Kumar, K.P. Ray9781580532440, 1-58053-244-6

Look to this new, cutting-edge microstrip antenna book for the first exhaustive coverage of broadband techniques, including the most up-to-date information to help you choose and design the optimum broadband microstrip antenna configurations for your applications, without sacrificing other antenna parameters. The book shows you how to take advantage of the lightweight, low volume benefits of these antennas, by providing clear explanations of the various configurations and simple design equations that help you analyze and design microstrip antennas with speed and confidence.
This practical resource offers you a comprehensive understanding of the radiation mechanism and characteristic of microstrip antennas, and provides guidance in designing new types of planar monopole antennas with multi-octave bandwidth. You learn how to select and design proper broadband microstrip antenna configurations for compact, tunable, dual-band and circular polarization applications. Moreover, the book compares all the broadband techniques and suggests the most attractive configuration. Extensively referenced with over 300 illustrations and 140 equations.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Broadband Microstrip Antennas……Page 2
Contents……Page 8
Foreword……Page 18
Preface……Page 20
Acknowledgments……Page 24
1 An Introduction to Microstrip Antennas……Page 26
2 Regularly Shaped Broadband MSAs……Page 54
3 Planar Multiresonator Broadband MSAs……Page 114
4 Multilayer Broadband MSAs……Page 156
5 Stacked Multiresonator MSAs……Page 196
6 Compact Broadband MSAs……Page 230
7 Tunable and Dual-Band MSAs……Page 276
8 Broadband Circularly Polarized MSAs……Page 334
9 Broadband Planar Monopole Antennas……Page 382
Appendix A: MSA Substrates……Page 404
Appendix B: Expressions for Various Parameters of RMSAs……Page 408
Appendix C: MNM for RMSAs……Page 416
Acronyms……Page 428
List of Symbols……Page 430
About the Authors……Page 432