Compact Broadband and Multiband Antenna Designs

Revision with unchanged content. The explosive growth of wireless communication systems has led to an increasing demand for the integration of embedded functions to compact low-cost RF front ends. As a result, the size of the antenna continues to be a limiting factor in this quest. For years, designers and engineers have researched methods of decreasing the size of the antenna, however, these methods are not always commercial viable. Therefore, I wrote this book with the intention to further educate the reader on the concepts and methods that can be used to miniaturize designs from WLAN to millimeter-wave frequencies without compromising important performance characteristics, such as gain, impedance bandwidth, and front-to-back ratio. The concepts presented in this book are not complex and can be practically integrated with commercial devices through the use of planar configurations. Finally, I wanted to present some insight on how design parameters of planar antennas could be used in other fields, such as computer science. I hope you enjoy!