Printed/additively Manufactured and Compact Antennas for Iot and Wearable Applications

To my father, mother, brother iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express the deepest appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Manos Tentzeris, who has the attitude and the substance of a genius: he continually and convincingly conveyed a spirit of adventure in regard to research. Without his guidance and support this dissertation would not have been possible. I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Andrew Peterson and Dr. Waymond Scott, for being excellent professor and providing me with insightful feedback on this work. I am highly indebted and thoroughly grateful to Jimmy Hester for his persistent support and untiring teaching. My sincerest gratitude goes out to my fellow ATHENA lab for their constant guidance and their support in completing this endeavor. I would like to express my special gratitude and thanks to Michael Isakov for providing me novel materials to study. Finally and most importantly, I would like to thank my roommates, friends and family for bringing best out of me. None of this would have been possible without their unending love and support.