Design of Nonplanar Microstrip Antennas and Transmission Lines

K.L. Wong, National Sun Yat -Sen University, Taiwan, R.O.C.


0471 18244 3March 1999Hardback384pp



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Microstrip antennas have been the subject of intense research over the past few years, with potential applications including avoidance radars for automobiles, cellular phones, personal mobile communications amongst others. Yet, although there are many books dealing with printed circuit antennas, these tend to focus only on planar geometries when in practice, many applications require printed antennas mounted on nonplanar surfaces, such as the body of an airplane, automobiles or missiles. This book facilitates the task of designing and optimising such antennas.
  • Enables the effective design of new antennas and the optimisation of existing ones
  • Collects information previously scattered across the scientific literature into a single comprehensive volume
  • Reorganises the research results of nonplanar microstrip antennas and circuits to present to present an up-to-date overview of the entire area
  • Written by an expert in the field with years of experience who has published over 40 journal articles specifically related to this field

Contents:

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Resonance Problem of Cylindrical Microstrip Patches
  • Resonance Problem of Spherical Microstrip Patches
  • Characteristics of Cylindrical Microstrip Antennas
  • Characteristics of Spherical and Conical Microstrip Antennas
  • Coupling between Conformal Microstrip Antennas
  • Conformal Microstrip Arrays
  • Cylindrical Microstrip Lines and Coplanar Waveguides
  • Appendices

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