Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition
by: John L. Volakis
Abstract: The most widely used and recognized book on antennas - massively updated to reflect the latest developments in engineering and design. Led by John Volakis, renowned antenna expert, more than 50 of the leading names in the field have completely updated this classic to ensure it remains the most authoritative antenna sourcebook available anywhere.You will find all the expertise you need to solve anyengineering problem that may arise in the design and application of the very latest types of antenna.
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Table of Contents
- A. ABOUT THE EDITOR
- B. CONTRIBUTORS
- C. FOREWORD
- 1. Fundamentals of Antennas, Arrays, and Mobile Communications
- 2. Frequency Bands for Military and Commercial Applications
- 3. Arrays of Discrete Elements
- 4. Dipoles and Monopoles
- 5. Loop Antennas
- 6. Small Antennas
- 7. Microstrip Antennas
- 8. Slot Antennas
- 9. Waveguide Slot Antenna Arrays
- 10. Surface-Wave Antennas
- 11. Leaky-Wave Antennas
- 12. Helical Antennas
- 13. Frequency Independent Antennas
- 14. Horn Antennas
- 15. Reflector Antennas
- 16. Wideband Microstrip Antennas
- 17. Dielectric Resonator Antennas
- 18. Lens Antennas
- 19. Ultrawide Bandwidth Antenna Design
- 20. Phased Arrays
- 21. Array Phase Shifters: Theory and Technology
- 22. Conformal and Low-Profile Arrays
- 23. Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Antennas
- 24. Ultra Wideband Arrays
- 25. Smart Antennas
- 26. Methods of Polarization Synthesis
- 27. Low- and Medium-Frequency Antennas
- 28. HF Antennas
- 29. VHF and UHF Antennas for Communications and Broadcasting
- 30. Portable TV Antennas
- 31. Reconfigurable Antennas
- 32. Active Antennas
- 33. Fractal Antennas
- 34. Low Profile Antenna Performance Enhancement Utilizing Engineered Electromagnetic Materials
- 35. Reflectarray Antennas
- 36. Mobile Handset Antennas
- 37. Broadband Planar Antennas for High-Speed Wireless Communications
- 38. Antennas for Medical Applications
- 39. Automobile Antennas
- 40. Aircraft Antennas
- 41. Radiometer Antennas
- 42. Antenna Tracking
- 43. Microwave Beacon Antennas
- 44. Satellite Antennas
- 45. Earth Station Antennas
- 46. Seeker Antennas
- 47. Direction Finding Antennas and Systems
- 48. ESM and ECM Antennas
- 49. Radio-Telescope Antennas
- 50. Indoor Antenna Measurements
- 51. Transmission Lines and Waveguides
- 52. Impedance Matching, Broadbanding, and Baluns
- 53. Radomes
- 54. Propagation
- 55. Materials and Design Data
- 56. Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 57. Propagation Models and Antennas for MIMO
- 58. Multipath Techniques for Handset/Terminal Antennas
- 59. Computational Electromagnetics for Antennas
- A. Antennas for Automotive Applications
- B. Broadcast Antennas
- C. Radar, Reflectarray, and Radiometer Antennas
- D. Broadband Antenna Examples
- E. Select Antennas
- F. Telescopes and Reflector Antennas
- G. Phasers and Active Antennas
- H. Antennas from Around Town
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- A. ABOUT THE EDITOR
- B. CONTRIBUTORS
- C. FOREWORD
- 1. Fundamentals of Antennas, Arrays, and Mobile Communications
- INTRODUCTION
- HUYGENS’ AND EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLES
- HERTZIAN AND FITZGERALD ELEMENTARY RADIATORS
- FAR-FIELD ANTENNA PROPERTIES, POWER TRANSFER, AND RECIPROCITY
- ANTENNAS AS ELECTROMAGNETIC CIRCUITS
- POLARIZATION
- DIRECTIVITY PATTERNS FROM CONTINUOUS LINE SOURCES
- DIRECTIVITY PATTERNS FROM AREA SOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS
- FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTENNA ARRAYS
- BASIC CONCEPTS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
- REFERENCES
- 2. Frequency Bands for Military and Commercial Applications
- 3. Arrays of Discrete Elements
- 4. Dipoles and Monopoles
- 5. Loop Antennas
- 6. Small Antennas
- THE DEFINITION OF ELECTRICALLY SMALL
- THE ELECTRICALLY SMALL TRANSMIT ANTENNA
- THE ELECTRICALLY SMALL DIPOLE AND LOOP ANTENNAS
- POWER FACTOR, QUALITY FACTOR, AND BANDWIDTH
- RADIATION EFFICIENCY AND REALIZED GAIN
- THE ELECTRICALLY SMALL RECEIVE ANTENNA
- THE EFFECTIVE VOLUME
- THE RADIATION SHIELD (THE WHEELER CAP)
- TYPICAL SMALL ANTENNAS
- REFERENCES
- 7. Microstrip Antennas
- 8. Slot Antennas
- 9. Waveguide Slot Antenna Arrays
- 10. Surface-Wave Antennas
- 11. Leaky-Wave Antennas
- INTRODUCTION
- DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR UNIFORM LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS
- DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR PERIODIC LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS
- SPECIFIC STRUCTURES: OVERVIEW
- SPECIFIC STRUCTURES BASED ON CLOSED WAVEGUIDES
- SPECIFIC STRUCTURES BASED ON PERIODIC OPEN WAVEGUIDES
- SPECIFIC STRUCTURES BASED ON UNIFORM OPEN WAVEGUIDES
- ARRAYS THAT SCAN IN TWO DIMENSIONS
- NARROW-BEAM ANTENNAS BASED ON A PARTIALLY REFLECTIVE SURFACE
- REFERENCES
- 12. Helical Antennas
- 13. Frequency Independent Antennas
- 14. Horn Antennas
- 15. Reflector Antennas
- 16. Wideband Microstrip Antennas
- INTRODUCTION
- SUBSTRATE EFFECT ON BANDWIDTH
- EFFECT OF PATCH SHAPE ON BANDWIDTH
- PROXIMITY COUPLED MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS
- APERTURE COUPLED MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS
- STACKED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS
- MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS WITH L-SHAPED PROBE
- SLOTTED WIDEBAND PATCH ANTENNAS
- VARIATIONS OF U-SLOT PATCH ANTENNA
- EBG LOADED SLOTTED PATCH ANTENNAS
- MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS WITH EBG SUBSTRATE
- REFERENCES
- 17. Dielectric Resonator Antennas
- 18. Lens Antennas
- 19. Ultrawide Bandwidth Antenna Design
- 20. Phased Arrays
- 21. Array Phase Shifters: Theory and Technology
- 22. Conformal and Low-Profile Arrays
- 23. Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Antennas
- 24. Ultra Wideband Arrays
- 25. Smart Antennas
- 26. Methods of Polarization Synthesis
- 27. Low- and Medium-Frequency Antennas
- INTRODUCTION
- FUNDAMENTALS OF VERTICAL MONOPOLE ANTENNA RADIATION PROPERTIES
- PRACTICAL LOW- AND MEDIUM-ANTENNA STRUCTURES: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BASICS
- NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS OF LOW-FREQUENCY ANTENNAS
- VERTICAL MAGNETIC LOOP AND HORIZONTAL SLOT ELF AND VLF ANTENNAS USING NATURAL STRUCTURES
- REFERENCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 28. HF Antennas
- 29. VHF and UHF Antennas for Communications and Broadcasting
- INTRODUCTION
- DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY
- SOME UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES
- PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY, COST, AND THE CHOICE OF MATERIALS
- SAFETY: RADHAZ
- PROPAGATION
- POINT-TO-POINT LINKS AND BROADCAST RECEIVING ANTENNAS
- OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS
- ANTENNAS FOR BROADCAST SERVICES AND BASE STATIONS
- BASE STATION ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE PHONE SERVICES
- SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS
- REFERENCES
- 30. Portable TV Antennas
- 31. Reconfigurable Antennas
- 32. Active Antennas
- 33. Fractal Antennas
- 34. Low Profile Antenna Performance Enhancement Utilizing Engineered Electromagnetic Materials
- INTRODUCTION
- CHARACTERIZATIONS AND DESIGNS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP (EBG) STRUCTURES
- LOW PROFILE WIRE ANTENNAS ON EBG GROUND PLANE
- PATCH ANTENNAS WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE USING EBG STRUCTURES
- SURFACE WAVE ANTENNAS WITH A MONOPOLE-LIKE RADIATION PATTERN
- IMPEDANCE AND MAGNETO-DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES FOR SMALL ANTENNA DESIGNS
- 35. Reflectarray Antennas
- 36. Mobile Handset Antennas
- IMPACT ON ANTENNA DESIGN
- CELLULAR HANDSET ANTENNA DESIGN ISSUES
- HELICAL WIRE ANTENNAS AND VARIANTS
- EVOLUTION OF THE PIFA AND ITS VARIANTS
- CERAMIC CHIP AND RESONATOR ANTENNAS
- SAR MEASUREMENT AND MINIMIZATION
- PROVISION FOR GPS AND BLUETOOTH
- MEASUREMENT OF HANDSET ANTENNAS
- SATCOM HANDSET ANTENNAS
- FUTURE TRENDS
- SYMBOLS
- REFERENCES
- 37. Broadband Planar Antennas for High-Speed Wireless Communications
- 38. Antennas for Medical Applications
- 39. Automobile Antennas
- 40. Aircraft Antennas
- INTRODUCTION
- LOW-FREQUENCY ANTENNAS
- HIGH-FREQUENCY COMMUNICATIONS ANTENNAS
- UNIDIRECTIONAL VERY-HIGH-FREQUENCY ANTENNAS
- OMNIDIRECTIONAL VERY-HIGH-FREQUENCY AND ULTRAHIGH-FREQUENCY ANTENNAS
- OMNIDIRECTIONAL L-BAND FREQUENCY ANTENNAS
- GPS ANTENNAS
- ALTIMETER ANTENNAS
- ANTENNA PERFORMANCE AND AIRCRAFT INTERACTION
- REFERENCES
- 41. Radiometer Antennas
- 42. Antenna Tracking
- 43. Microwave Beacon Antennas
- 44. Satellite Antennas
- 45. Earth Station Antennas
- 46. Seeker Antennas
- INTRODUCTION
- SEEKER-ANTENNA ELECTRICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- IMPACT OF AIRFRAME ON ANTENNA DESIGN
- SEEKER-ANTENNA MECHANICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- APERTURE TECHNIQUES FOR SEEKER ANTENNAS
- PACKAGING SEEKER ANTENNAS
- SMALL ARRAYS FOR SEEKER ANTENNAS
- RADOME EFFECTS
- EVALUATION OF SEEKER ANTENNAS
- ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION
- REFERENCES
- 47. Direction Finding Antennas and Systems
- 48. ESM and ECM Antennas
- 49. Radio-Telescope Antennas
- 50. Indoor Antenna Measurements
- INTRODUCTION
- IMPEDANCE OR S11 MEASUREMENTS
- PATTERN OR S12 MEASUREMENTS
- TAPERED R-CARD FENCES
- HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP CHAMBERS
- GAIN, EFFICIENCY, AND BORESIGHT MEASUREMENTS
- POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS
- ANTENNA TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS
- CHAMBER EVALUATION
- CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENT MEASUREMENTS
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 51. Transmission Lines and Waveguides
- 52. Impedance Matching, Broadbanding, and Baluns
- 53. Radomes
- 54. Propagation
- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF PROPAGATION EFFECTS
- FREE SPACE PROPAGATION
- ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION
- ATMOSPHERIC GAS AND RAIN ATTENUATION
- EMPIRICAL PATH LOSS MODELS FOR LINE-OF-SIGHT LINKS
- FADING AND MULTIPATH
- IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES
- IONOSPHERE AND GROUND WAVE EFFECTS AT FREQUENCIES LESS THAN 50 MHZ
- REFERENCES
- 55. Materials and Design Data
- 56. Frequency Selective Surfaces
- 57. Propagation Models and Antennas for MIMO
- 58. Multipath Techniques for Handset/Terminal Antennas
- INTRODUCTION
- MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT LINE-OF-SIGHT (LOS)
- CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGLE-PORT ANTENNAS IN MULTIPATH
- CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIPORT ANTENNAS IN MULTIPATH
- CHARACTERIZATION OF DIVERSITY AND MIMO PERFORMANCE
- EMULATION OF MULTIPATH AND FADING USING REVERBERATION CHAMBER
- MEASURING ANTENNAS AND ACTIVE TERMINALS IN REVERBERATION CHAMBER
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 59. Computational Electromagnetics for Antennas
- A. Antennas for Automotive Applications
- B. Broadcast Antennas
- C. Radar, Reflectarray, and Radiometer Antennas
- D. Broadband Antenna Examples
- E. Select Antennas
- F. Telescopes and Reflector Antennas
- G. Phasers and Active Antennas
- H. Antennas from Around Town
Book Details
Title: Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New Delhi, San Juan, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto
Copyright / Pub. Date: 2007, 1993, 1984, 1961 McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780071475747
Authors:
John L. Volakis
is the Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor of Engineering and also serves as Director of the Electroscience Laboratory. A native of Chios, Greece, Dr. Volakis obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1982 and was a professor at The University of Michigan (1984-2002) prior to returning to The Ohio State University. He has co-authored over 240 journal articles and 350 conference papers, and is co-author of the books: Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (IEE Press) Finite Element Method for Electromagnetics (IEEE Press-Wiley), and Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods in Electromagnetics (Morgan & Claypool). Dr. Volakis is a Fellow of IEEE and a former President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He graduated/mentored over 50 Ph.D. students/post-docs and is listed by ISI among the top 250 most referenced authors in Engineering/Computer Science.
Description: The most widely used and recognized book on antennas - massively updated to reflect the latest developments in engineering and design. Led by John Volakis, renowned antenna expert, more than 50 of the leading names in the field have completely updated this classic to ensure it remains the most authoritative antenna sourcebook available anywhere.You will find all the expertise you need to solve anyengineering problem that may arise in the design and application of the very latest types of antenna.
