Broadband Planar Antennas: Design and Applications

Index

Antenna

Base station, 10, 65, 232

Diamond, 212–14

Embedded, 171, 180, 227–32, 233

Measurement, 154–70, 213

Planar, 5–14, 193–218

Portable device, 180, 220

Receive, 195–7, 204–11

Roll, 183–6

Square, 5–7, 13, 34, 36, 101, 221

Transmit, 194–8, 201–11, 212–13, 220

Antenna array, 111–12

Band-gap

Electromagnetic band-gap, 111, 144

Bandwidth

Gain, 4, 5, 9, 39, 62, 90, 143, 185

Impedance, 3, 7, 49–65

Radiation, 19, 56, 181

Base station antenna, see Antenna

Bent

Planar antenna, 13

Bluetooth, 171

Boresight

Radiation pattern, 55

Broadband antenna, 39, 179, 204, 206, 209–11

Capacitance, 33, 49, 63, 87, 185, 188, 204

Capacitive loading, 86–92

Chip capacitor, 86–9, 93

Co-pol

level, 55

Co-to-cross-pol ratio, 5, 9–11, 13, 55, 58, 59, 72, 90–1, 93, 99, 108

Coplanar design, 22–3, 57–8

Coupling

Aperture, 23, 85

Electromagnetic, 56–9, 192

Feed, 192–3

Cross-pol

Level, 4, 107

Current distribution, 27, 28, 29, 30, 72–3, 157

Dipole

Antenna, 18, 201

Direction

Radiation, 19, 65

Diversity, 66

Dominant mode, 11, 14, 23, 24, 55, 65, 83, 97, 103

Dual-band operation, 104, 106, 136, 172

Efficiency

Radiation, 3, 6, 19, 32, 47, 60, 230

EIRP (Effective Isotropic Radiated Power), 194, 197

Emission Limit

Mask, 197–8

E-plane, 8, 9–10, 55, 62, 72–9, 89–93, 95–9, 96, 108–11, 116, 127, 234, 235

FCC (Federal Communications Commission), 180, 193, 197, 200, 204

Feed

Coupling, see Coupling, Feed

Gap, 10, 63, 150–1, 184, 192, 229

Probe, 57, 58, 60, 67

Slot, 14

Strip, 68, 79, 102, 150

FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)

Inverse, ...