Book description
This book aims at describing the wide variety of new technologies and concepts of non-standard antenna systems - reconfigurable, integrated, terahertz, deformable, ultra-wideband, using metamaterials, or MEMS, etc, and how they open the way to a wide range of applications, from personal security and communications to multifunction radars and towed sonars, or satellite navigation systems, with space-time diversity on transmit and receive. A reference book for designers in this lively scientific community linking antenna experts and signal processing engineers.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction
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Part 1: Emerging Concepts
- Chapter 1: Joint Diversity and Beamforming for Downlink Communications
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Chapter 2: Acoustic Antennas for Biomedical and Industrial Ultrasonic Imaging
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Basic ultrasonic transducers
- 2.3. Transducer arrays
- 2.4. Piezoelectric material issues
- 2.5. Modeling, design and characterization of ultrasonic antennas
- 2.6. High frequency (HF) acoustic antennas for biomedical microscanning applications
- 2.7. New acoustic antennas based on technology of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers
- 2.8. Conclusion
- 2.9. Bibliography
- Chapter 3: Space-time Exploration for Airborne Radars
- Chapter 4: Multifunction Antenna System Concepts: Opportunity for Ultra-wideband Radars?
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Part 2: Technologies
- Chapter 5: From a Molecule to an Electro-optic Antenna
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Chapter 6: Terahertz Broadband Micro-antennas for Continuous Wave Imaging
- 6.1. Introduction
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6.2. UWB THz antennas for superconducting hot electron bolometers
- 6.2.1. Background on UWB antenna geometry
- 6.2.2. The log-periodic planar geometry
- 6.2.3. Input impedance of the planar log-periodic antenna
- 6.2.4. Surface currents of the planar log-periodic antenna
- 6.2.5. Planar log-periodic antenna: design of a large scale microwave model
- 6.2.6. Radiation patterns of the planar log-periodic antenna
- 6.2.7. Electromagnetic coupling between neighboring array elements
- 6.2.8. Log-periodic planar antenna implementation with a cryogenic THz detector
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6.3. High-impedance THz antennas for semiconducting bolometers
- 6.3.1. High-impedance wideband structures
- 6.3.2. Simulations and measurements: technological approach
- 6.3.3. Wideband angular concept: spiral antenna
- 6.3.4. Modified spiral: square spiral antenna
- 6.3.5. Log-periodic concept: array of dipoles
- 6.3.6. New concept: multi-tail dipole antenna with ground plane
- 6.3.7. THz multi-tail dipole: implementation example
- 6.4. Conclusion
- 6.5. Acknowledgments
- 6.6. Bibliography
- Chapter 7: Dual Frequency Millimeter Feed
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Chapter 8: Reconfigurable Printed Antennas
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Active antennas
- 8.3. Active components used for reconfiguration
- 8.4. Printed antennas and compact antennas
- 8.5. Frequency reconfigurable antennas
- 8.6. Radiation pattern reconfiguration
- 8.7. Polarization agile antennas
- 8.8. Self-adjusting antennas
- 8.9. Conclusion
- 8.10. Acknowledgments
- 8.11. Bibliography
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Chapter 9: Wideband Antennas and Artificial Magnetic Conductors
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Wideband antenna and metamaterial
- 9.3. How to characterize an artificial magnetic conductor?
- 9.4. Narrow bandwidth antenna above an AMC
- 9.5. Wideband antenna placed above an AMC
- 9.6. Very wideband antenna placed above an AMC
- 9.7. Conclusions
- 9.8. Acknowledgments
- 9.9. Bibliography
- Chapter 10: High Impedance Surface Close to a Radiating Dipole
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Part 3: Detection/Localization
- Chapter 11: Advanced Processing for DOA Estimation
- Chapter 12: Multifunction Airborne Antennas
- Chapter 13: Active Sonar: Port/Starboard Discrimination on Very Low Frequency Triplet Arrays
- Chapter 14: Airborne High Precision Location of Radiating Sources
- Chapter 15: Ground-based Deformable Antennas
- Chapter 16: Automatic Take-off and Landing System
- Chapter 17: Anti-jamming for Satellite Navigation
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Part 4: Ultra-Wideband
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Chapter 18: Ultra-wideband Antenna Systems
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. The principles implemented through two applications
- 18.3. The ultra-wideband antennas
- 18.4. Limitations of a mono-source device: implementation of multi-source devices with optoelectronic excitation
- 18.5. Pulse antenna systems in high power microwaves
- 18.6. Conclusion
- 18.7. Bibliography
- Chapter 19: Co-design of the Antenna with LNA for Ultra-wideband Applications
- Chapter 20: Vector Spherical Harmonic Modeling of 3D-antenna Radiation Function or an UWB-RT Simulator
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Chapter 18: Ultra-wideband Antenna Systems
- List of Authors
- Index
Product information
- Title: Non-standard Antennas
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781848212749
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