Wiley, 2007. — 304 p. — ISBN-10: 0470030739. — ISBN-13: 978-0470030738.Offers a comprehensive and practical reference guide to antenna design and engineering for portable devices.
Antennas are often the most bulky components in many portable wireless devices such as mobile phones. Whilst the demand for ever smaller and more powerful wireless devices increases, as does the importance of designing and engineering smaller antennas to fit these devices.
Antennas for Portable Devices provides a complete and cutting-edge guide to the design and engineering of small antennas for portable electronic devices such as mobile phone handsets, laptop computers, RFID (radio frequency identification), microwave thermal therapies devices, wearable devices, and UWB (ultra-wideband) based consumer devices.
Introduction.
Handset Antennas.
Introduction.
Performance Requirements.
Electrically Small Antennas.
Classes of Handset Antennas.
The Quest for Efficiency and Extended Bandwidth.
Practical Design.
Starting Points for Design and Optimization.
The RF Performance of Typical Handsets.
Conclusion.
RFID Tag Antennas.
Introduction.
RFID Fundamentals.
Design Considerations for RFID Tag Antennas.
Effect of Environment on RFID Tag Antennas.
Summary.
Laptop Antenna Design and Evaluation.
Introduction.
Laptop-Related Antenna Issues.
Antenna Design Methodology.
PC Card Antenna Performance and Evaluation.
Link Budget Model.
An INF Antenna Implementation.
Integrated and PC Card Solutions Comparison.
Dualband Examples.
Remarks on WLAN Antenna Design and Evaluations.
Antennas for Wireless Wide Area Network Applications.
Ultra-Wide Band Antennas.
Antenna Issues in Microwave Thermal Therapies.
Microwave Thermal Therapies.
Interstitial Microwave Hyperthermia.
Clinical Trials.
Other Applications.
Summary.
Antennas for Wearable Devices.
Introduction.
Modelling and Characterization of Wearable Antennas.
WBAN Radio Channel Characterization and Effect of Wearable Antennas.
Case Study: A Compact Wearable Antenna for Healthcare Sensors.
Summary.
Antennas for UWB Applications.
UWB Wireless Systems.
Challenges in UWB Antenna Design.
State-of-the-Art Solutions.
Case Study.
Summary.
