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Summary
Summary
Complete and comprehensive application-focused reference on millimetre wave antennas
Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit Wireless Communications covers a vast wealth of material with a strong focus on the current design and analysis principles of millimetre wave antennas for wireless devices. It provides practising engineers with the design rules and considerations required in designing antennas for the terminal. The authors include coverage of new configurations with advanced angular and frequency filtering characteristics, new design and analysis techniques, and methods for filter miniaturization. The book reviews up-to-date research results and utilizes numerous design examples to emphasize computer analysis and synthesis whilst also discussing the applications of commercially available software.
Key Features:
Advanced and up-to-date treatment of one of the fastest growing fields of wireless communications
Covers topics such as Gigabit wireless communications and its required antennas, passive and active antenna design and analysis techniques, multibeam antennas and MIMO, IEEE 802.15.3c, WiMedia®, and advanced materials and technologies
Offers a practical guide to integrated antennas for specific configurations requirements
Addresses a number of complex, real-world problems that system and antenna engineers are going to face in millimetre-wave communications industry and provides solutions
Contains detailed design examples, drawings and predicted performanceThis book is an invaluable tool for antenna professionals (engineers, designers, and developers), microwave professionals, wireless communication system professionals, and industries with microwave and millimetre wave research projects. Advanced students and researchers working in the field of millimetre wave engineering will also find this book very useful.
Author Notes
KAO-CHENG HUANG, PhD, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology UK, Vice President at the Dharma Academy, and President of the Association of Vijnaptimatrata of China in Taiwan. Dr. Huang is the author of two previous books, including Millimeter Wave Communication Systems, and holds several patents in the area of millimeter wave antennas.
David J. Edwards is with Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science in the U.K.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. ix |
List of Abbreviations | p. xi |
1 Gigabit Wireless Communications | p. 1 |
1.1 Gigabit Wireless Communications | p. 1 |
1.2 Regulatory Issues | p. 7 |
1.2.1 Europe | p. 7 |
1.2.2 United States | p. 8 |
1.2.3 Japan | p. 9 |
1.2.4 Industrial Standardisation | p. 9 |
1.3 Millimetre Wave Characterisations | p. 12 |
1.3.1 Free Space Propagation | p. 13 |
1.3.2 Millimetre Wave Propagation Loss Factors | p. 13 |
1.3.3 Atmospheric Losses | p. 14 |
1.4 Channel Performance | p. 14 |
1.5 System Design and Performance | p. 22 |
1.5.1 Antenna Arrays | p. 22 |
1.5.2 Transceiver Architecture | p. 23 |
1.6 Antenna Requirements | p. 26 |
1.7 Link Budget | p. 30 |
1.8 Summary | p. 34 |
References | p. 34 |
2 Critical Antenna Parameters | p. 37 |
2.1 Path Loss and Antenna Directivity | p. 38 |
2.2 Antenna Beamwidth | p. 45 |
2.3 Maximum Possible Gain-to-Q | p. 46 |
2.4 Antenna Polarisation | p. 50 |
2.4.1 Polarisation Diversity | p. 56 |
References | p. 58 |
3 Planar Antennas | p. 61 |
3.1 Printed Antennas | p. 61 |
3.2 Slot Antennas | p. 72 |
3.2.1 Standard Slot Antenna | p. 72 |
3.2.2 Tapered Slot Antennas | p. 73 |
3.3 Quasi-Yagi Antennas | p. 75 |
3.4 Bow-Tie Antennas | p. 76 |
3.5 Reflector Antennas | p. 78 |
3.6 Millimetre Wave Design Considerations | p. 84 |
3.7 Production and Manufacture | p. 85 |
3.7.1 Fine Line Printing | p. 85 |
3.7.2 Thick Film | p. 86 |
3.7.3 Thin Film | p. 86 |
3.7.4 System-on-Chip | p. 87 |
References | p. 87 |
4 Horn Antennas | p. 91 |
4.1 Waveguide Modes | p. 91 |
4.2 Multimode Horn Antennas | p. 94 |
4.3 Integrated Horn | p. 98 |
4.4 Conical Horns and Circular Polarisation | p. 102 |
4.5 Tilt Horn | p. 110 |
4.6 Dielectric Sectoral Horn | p. 111 |
References | p. 112 |
5 Dielectric Antennas | p. 115 |
5.1 Dielectric Resonator Antennas | p. 115 |
5.2 Dielectric Rod Antennas | p. 121 |
5.3 Maximum Gain Rod Antennas | p. 126 |
5.4 The Dual Rod Antenna | p. 127 |
5.5 Patch-Fed Circular Rod Antennas | p. 130 |
5.6 Rod Arrays and Phase Compensation | p. 136 |
5.7 Optimisation of a Rod Antenna | p. 139 |
References | p. 141 |
6 Lens Antennas | p. 145 |
6.1 Luneberg Lens | p. 146 |
6.2 Hemispherical Lens | p. 149 |
6.3 Extended Hemispherical Lens | p. 151 |
6.4 Off-Axis Extended Hemispherical Lens | p. 157 |
6.5 Planar Lens Array | p. 161 |
6.6 Metal Plate Lens Antennas | p. 164 |
References | p. 166 |
7 Multiple Antennas | p. 171 |
7.1 The 60 GHz Multibeam Antenna | p. 171 |
7.2 Antenna Arrays | p. 176 |
7.3 Millimetre Wave Arrays | p. 180 |
7.3.1 Printed Arrays | p. 180 |
7.3.2 Waveguide Arrays | p. 182 |
7.3.3 Leaky-Wave Arrays | p. 184 |
7.4 Mutual Coupling between Antennas | p. 186 |
References | p. 194 |
8 Smart Antennas | p. 197 |
8.1 Beam-Switching Antennas | p. 199 |
8.2 Beam-Steering/Forming Antennas | p. 205 |
8.2.1 Electronic Beamforming | p. 206 |
8.3 Millimetre Wave MIMO | p. 212 |
8.3.1 Beamforming Layer | p. 215 |
8.3.2 Spatial Multiplexing Layer | p. 217 |
8.4 Mode-Tracking Antennas | p. 218 |
References | p. 224 |
9 Advanced Antenna Materials | p. 227 |
9.1 Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics | p. 228 |
9.2 Liquid Crystal Polymer | p. 233 |
9.3 CMOS | p. 238 |
9.4 Meta Materials | p. 241 |
9.5 High-Temperature Superconducting Antenna | p. 245 |
9.6 Nano Antennas | p. 249 |
References | p. 249 |
10 High-Speed Wireless Applications | p. 255 |
10.1 V-Band Antenna Applications | p. 255 |
10.1.1 Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) | p. 256 |
10.1.2 Wireless HDMI | p. 256 |
10.1.3 Point-to-Point 60 GHz Links | p. 257 |
10.1.4 Broadcasting a Video Signal Transmission System in a Sports Stadium | p. 257 |
10.1.5 Intervehicle Communication System | p. 258 |
10.1.6 Multigigabit File Transmission | p. 258 |
10.1.7 Current Developments | p. 258 |
10.2 E-Band Antenna Applications | p. 261 |
10.2.1 Private Networks/Enterprise LAN Extensions | p. 261 |
10.2.2 Fibre Extensions | p. 262 |
10.2.3 Fibre Back-up/Diversity Connections | p. 262 |
10.2.4 Military Communications and Surveillance Systems | p. 262 |
10.2.5 Secure Applications | p. 263 |
10.3 Distributed Antenna Systems | p. 264 |
10.4 Wireless Mesh Networks | p. 267 |
References | p. 270 |
Index | p. 273 |