Huang / Edwards Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit Wireless Communications

A Practical Guide to Design and Analysis in a System Context
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-71213-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Complete and comprehensive application-focused reference onmillimetre wave antennas
Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit WirelessCommunications covers a vast wealth of material with a strongfocus on the current design and analysis principles of millimetrewave antennas for wireless devices. It provides practisingengineers with the design rules and considerations required indesigning antennas for the terminal. The authors include coverageof new configurations with advanced angular and frequency filteringcharacteristics, new design and analysis techniques, and methodsfor filter miniaturization. The book reviews up-to-date researchresults and utilizes numerous design examples to emphasize computeranalysis and synthesis whilst also discussing the applications ofcommercially available software.
Key Features:
* Advanced and up-to-date treatment of one of the fastest growingfields of wireless communications
* Covers topics such as Gigabit wireless communications and itsrequired antennas, passive and active antenna design and analysistechniques, multibeam antennas and MIMO, IEEE 802.15.3c,WiMedia®, and advanced materials and technologies
* Offers a practical guide to integrated antennas for specificconfigurations requirements
* Addresses a number of complex, real-world problems that systemand antenna engineers are going to face in millimetre-wavecommunications industry and provides solutions
* Contains detailed design examples, drawings and predictedperformance
This book is an invaluable tool for antenna professionals(engineers, designers, and developers), microwave professionals,wireless communication system professionals, and industries withmicrowave and millimetre wave research projects. Advanced studentsand researchers working in the field of millimetre wave engineeringwill also find this book very useful.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huang, Kao-Cheng

Edwards, David J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations
1 Gigabit Wireless Communications
1.1 Gigabit Wireless Communications
1.2 Regulatory Issues
1.3 Millimetre Wave Characterisations
1.4 Channel Performance
1.5 System Design and Performance
1.6 Antenna Requirements
1.7 Link Budget
1.8 Summary
References
2 Critical Antenna Parameters
2.1 Path Loss and Antenna Directivity
2.2 Antenna Beamwidth
2.3 Maximum Possible Gain-to-Q
2.4 Antenna Polarisation
References
3 Planar Antennas
3.1 Printed Antennas
3.2 Slot Antennas
3.3 Quasi-Yagi Antennas
3.4 Bow-Tie Antennas
3.5 Reflector Antennas
3.6 Millimetre Wave Design Consideration
3.7 Production and Manufacture
References
4 Horn Antennas
4.1 Waveguide Modes
4.2 Multimode Horn Antenna
4.3 Integrated Horn
4.4 Cylinder Horn and Circular Polarisation
4.5 Tilt Horn
4.6 Dielectric Sectoral Horn
References
5 Dielectric Antennas
5.1 Dielectric Resonator Antennas
5.2 Dielectric Rod Antenna
5.3 Maximum Gain Rod Antenna
5.4 Dual Rod
5.5 Patch-Fed Circular Rod
5.6 Rod Array and Phase Compensation
5.7 Optimisation of a Rod Antenna
References
6 Lens Antennas
6.1 Luneberg Lens
6.2 Hemispherical Lens
6.3 Extended Hemispherical Lens
6.4 Off-Axis Extended Hemispherical Lens
6.5 Planar Lens Array
6.6 Metal Plate Lens Antennas
References
7 Multiple Antennas
7.1 The 60 GHz Multibeam Antenna
7.2 Antenna Array
7.3 Millimetre Wave Arrays
7.4 Mutual Coupling between Antennas
References
8 Smart Antennas
8.1 Beam-Switching Antennas
8.2 Beam-Steering/Forming Antennas
8.3 Millimetre Wave MIMO
8.4 Mode-Tracking Antennas
References
9 Advanced Antenna Materials
9.1 Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
9.2 Liquid Crystal Polymer
9.3 CMOS
9.4 Left-Handed Material
9.5 High-Temperature Superconducting Antenna
9.6 Nano Antennas
References
10 High-Speed Wireless Applications
10.1 V-Band Antenna Applications
10.2 E-Band Antenna Applications
10.3 Distributed Antenna System
10.4 Wireless Mesh Networks
References
Index