Small Antenna Design

As wireless devices and systems get both smaller and more ubiquitous, the demand for effective but small antennas is rapidly increasing. This book will describe the theory behind effective small antenna design and give design techniques and examples for small antennas for different operating frequencies. Design techniques are given for the entire radio spectrum, from a very hundred kilohertz to the gigahertz range. Unlike other antenna books which are heavily mathematical and theoretical, Douglas Miron keeps mathematics to the absolute minimum required to explain design techniques. Grou.

Front Cover; Small Antenna Design; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; About the Author; What's on the CD-ROM?; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 What Is Small?; 1.2 What Are the Problems?; 1.3 Some Historical Small Antenna Types and Applications; 1.4 Some Present and Future Small Antennas; References; Chapter 2: Antenna Fundamentals I; 2.1 Electromagnetic Waves; 2.2 Polarization; 2.3 The Short Dipole; 2.4 The Small Loop; 2.5 Directionality, Efficiency, and Gain; References; Chapter 2 Problems; Chapter 3: Antenna Fundamentals II; 3.1 Bandwidth and Quality Factor, Q.

3.2 Impedance Matching and System Efficiency3.3 Reception; 3.4 Ground Effects; 3.5 Improvements; References; Chapter 3 Problems; Chapter 4: Introduction to Numerical Modeling of Wire Antennas; 4.1 General Concepts; 4.2 The Mathematical Basics of the Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC); 4.3 Using NEC in the Command Window; 4.4 Modeling Guidelines; 4.5 NEC in a Graphical User Interface (GUI); 4.6 Examples from Chapters 2 and 3; References; Chapter 4 Problems; Chapter 5: Programmed Modeling; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Using Wire-List Generators in NEC; 5.2 Using Code to Generate a Wire List.

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