Compact and Broadband Microstrip Antennas
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  • Compact microstrip antennas are of great importance in meeting the miniaturization requirements of modern portable communications equipment
  • This book is a comprehensive treatment of design techniques and test data for current compact and broadband microstrip designs
  • Summarizes the work of the author and his graduate students who have published over 80 refereed journal articles on the subject in the past few years
  • Advanced designs reported by various other prestigious antenna designers are incorporated as well

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KIN-LU WONG, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, and is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and Microwave Optical Technology Letters. He has published more than 210 refereed journal papers, holds 20 patents, and is the author of Design of Nonplanar Microstrip Antennas and Transmission Lines (Wiley).

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Preface.

1. Introduction and Overview.

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Compact Microstrip Antennas.

1.3 Compact Broadband Microstrip Antennas.

1.4 Compact Dual-Frequency Microstrip Antennas.

1.5 Compact Dual-Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

1.6 Compact Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

1.7 Compact Microstrip Antennas with Enhanced Gain.

1.8 Broadband Microstrip Antennas.

1.9 Broadband Dual-Frequency and Dual-Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

1.10 Broadband and Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

2. Compact Microstrip Antennas.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Use of a Shorted Patch with a Thin Dielectric Substrate.

2.3 Use of a Meandered Patch.

2.4 Use of a Meandered Ground Plane.

2.5 Use of a Planar Inverted-L Patch.

2.6 Use of an Inverted U-Shaped or Folded Patch.

3. Compact Broadband Microstrip Antennas.

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Use of a Shorted Patch with a Thick Air Substrate.

3.3 Use of Stacked Shorted Patches.

3.4 Use of Chip-Resistor and Chip-Capacitor Loading Technique.

3.5 Use of a Slot-Loading Technique.

3.6 Use of a Slotted Ground Plane.

4. Compact Dual-Frequency and Dual-Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Some Recent Advances in Regular-Size Dual-Frequency Designs.

4.3 Compact Dual-Frequency Operation with Same Polarization Planes.

4.4 Compact Dual-Frequency Operation.

4.5 Dual-Band or Triple-Band PIFA.

4.6 Compact Dual-Polarized Designs.

5. Compact Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Designs with a Cross-Slot of Unequal Arm Lengths.

5.3 Designs with a Y-Shaped Slot of Unequal Arm Lengths.

5.4 Designs with Slits.

5.5 Designs with Spur Lines.

5.6 Designs with Truncated Corners.

5.7 Designs with Peripheral Cuts.

5.8 Designs with a Tuning Stub.

5.9 Designs with a Bent Tuning Stub.

5.10 Compact CP Designs with an Inset Microstrip-Line Feed.

6. Compact Microstrip Antennas with Enhanced Gain.

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Compact Microstrip Antennas with High-Permittivity Superstrate.

6.3 Compact Microstrip Antennas with Active Circuitry.

7. Broadband Microstrip Antennas.

7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Use of Additional Microstrip Resonators.

7.3 Microstrip Antennas with an Air Substrate.

7.4 Broadband Slot-Loaded Microstrip Antennas.

7.5 Broadband Microstrip Antennas with an Integrated Reactive Loading.

7.6 Broadband Microstrip Antennas with Reduced Cross-Polarization Radiation.

8. Broadband Dual-Frequency and Dual-Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Broadband Dual-Frequency Microstrip Antennas.

8.3 Broadband Dual-Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

9. Broadband and Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Broadband Single-Feed Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

9.3 Broadband Two-Feed Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

9.4 Broadband Four-Feed Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

9.5 Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas.

Index.

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"...looks at advanced designs in the areas of compact and broadband microstrip antennas..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)

"...presents new advanced designs of this type [microstrip] antenna, offering more than 100 advanced microstrip antenna designs and their detailed experimental results." (Microwave Journal, December 2002)

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