Planar antennas are common components in sensing applications due to their low cost, low profile and simple integration with systems. They can be used commonly at frequencies as high as 77 GHz and above, for example in automotive sensing. Also, new ultra-wideband communication systems operating around 60 GHz will heavily rely on planar antennas due to their unique properties. One special advant...

Many of the technical requirements proposed for the LWA are significantly expanded compared with the LWDA. Among the most significant changes in requirements is the wider operating band of the LWA, nominally 20 MHz to 80 MHz [1], compared with 60 MHz to 80 MHz for the LWDA. This presents new challenges in designing many of the system components including the antenna. Requirements for an LWA ant...

A wideband planar inverted-F MIMO antenna with high isolation is proposed in this letter. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of two back-to-back planar inverted-F antennas and a forkshaped decoupling stub. The two planar inverted-F antennas are merged together with a shorting strip connected to the ground plane. In order to enhance the isolation, a fork-shaped decoupling stub connected to the g...

A computationally efficient global optimization method, the adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO), is proposed for the synthesis of uniform and Gaussian amplitude arrays of two cases, i.e., the prior constraint in the synthesis of the element positions for both the cases is dmin = 0.5 λ, where dmin is the minimum distance between two adjacent elements. The upper limit in the distance betw...

The authors have developed high-efficiency and mass-producible planar slot array antennas using unique singlelayer waveguide structures. Four types of planar waveguides, all belonging to single-layer waveguide, are structurally quite simple and low cost while they inherit low loss characteristics from waveguides. They are leading candidates for high-gain planar antennas in high frequency wirele...

Broadband planar monopole antennas have attracted their candidature for wideband applications like WLAN, WiMAX, RADAR, Satellite etc. Eventhough planar monopole antennas have several advantages in terms of cost, compactness, conformality, simplicity they suffer from a major disadvantage of having very narrow bandwidth. Various planar configurations such as circular, triangular, rectangular, hex...

Near-field ranges operate by measuring the electromagnetic field near the antenna and then mathematically transforming the data to any arbitrary location. Near-field operations are a form of microwave holography. The wave front measurements are normally made on a planar, spherical or cylindrical surface. This paper discusses primarily the planar configurations as used in the measurement of larg...

A 2.45-GHz microstrip patch antenna was designed for small-satellite communications. Optimization was achieved by trimming the copper patch to minimize the input return loss over the desired 2:1 VSWR bandwidth. Final testing of the antenna included a successful long-range data transmission over which pictures taken by the satellite were sent to the ground station. In addition to the microstrip ...

This chapter focuses on the design of compact planar multiband antennas intended for exist‐ ing wireless services including LTE, GPS, GSM, PCS, DCS, GPS, UMTS, WLAN and Wi‐ MAX bands. The present techniques available in the open literature include the modification of the main radiator via bending, folding, meandering and wrapping. Each approach offers different advantages, depending on the requ...