Название: Antennas for Industrial and Medical Applications with Optimization Techniques for Wireless Communication
Автор: S. Kannadhasan, R. Nagarajan
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 219
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 30.9 MB

The text begins by covering the fundamental concepts and new advances in the field of antenna theory, antenna hardware, and propagation. It further explains the designing of metamaterials microstrip patch antennas for medical applications, photonic crystals of millimeter wave signals for 5G communications, dual-band miniaturized circular antennas for wireless networks, and ultra-thin compact flexible antennas for wearable applications.

In recent years, antenna design has gotten a lot of attention. This is due to a surge in interest in a variety of applications, ranging from IoT to low‑frequency long‑range applications to high‑frequency mmWave 5G mobile technology. Future phones and base stations will need multimode antenna technology that is both energy efficient and can function in the millimeter wave band in conjunction with legacy 4G and sub‑6 GHz 5G. Antennas should be small in size, but they must meet technical criteria such as greater power, wider bandwidth, higher gain, and insensitivity to human users’ hand‑held influence. This necessitates highly creative antenna design solutions that can function in both single and MIMO/Array configurations. Low‑cost, intelligent antennas, and new radio propagation modeling and prediction tools for future wireless networks must arise to support the new frequency bands and wireless system topologies, among other difficulties in the antenna and propagation sectors. In this regard, possible solutions include mmWave beamforming, massive MIMO methods, and distributed antenna systems, which transform the current notion of wireless access networks (cellular structures with fixed base station locations) to a user‑ or even service‑oriented perspective. 5G will enable the full potential of the Internet of Things by delivering much higher mobile broadband rates, reduced latency, and dependable communications (IoT).

This book:

Presents the design and development of S-shaped and T-shaped microstrip path antennas for industrial applications.
Highlights the use of W-shaped and metamaterials microstrip patch antennas for medical applications.
Covers photonic crystals of millimeter wave signals for 5G communications.
Showcases the importance of compact and wideband slot antenna for wireless communications.
Illustrates the design of an ultra-thin compact flexible antenna for wearable applications.

It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, antenna design, and microwave engineering.