John Volakis

This book presents a practical and comprehensive guide to game-changing and state-of-the-art wearable antennas and RF electronics and their applications. Written by leading experts, the book details how to weave clothing into functional antennas and sensors to serve as unobtrusive devices for medical monitoring, athletic performance tracking, body-area network communications, and a host of other applications. You will learn about the latest advances in materials and electronics along with new and unexplored opportunities in functionalizing fabrics for sensing and wireless connectivity; understand materials selection for diverse wearable applications; gain practical insight into the newest class of embroidered e-textiles; and learn how to engineer flexible and wearable sensors. Wearable Antennas and Electronics covers basic approaches for wearable technology and their applications. You will also get an expert preview of promising future directions and paths for research opportunities. This is a must-have resource for anyone working in the growing industry of wearables and body-area devices, including engineers, researchers, faculty, and graduate students.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The gold-standard reference on the design and application of classic and modern antennas—fully updated to reflect the latest advances and technologiesThis new edition of the “bible of antenna engineering” has been updated to provide start-to-finish coverage of the latest innovations in antenna design and application. You will find in-depth discussion of antennas used in modern communication systems, mobile and personal wireless technologies, satellites, radar deployments, flexible electronics, and other emerging technologies, including 5G, terahertz, and wearable electronics. Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fifth Edition, is bolstered by real-world examples, hundreds of illustrations, and an emphasis on the practical aspects of antennas.Featuring 60 chapters and contributions from more than 80 renowned experts, this acclaimed resource is edited by one of the world’s leading antenna authorities. This edition features all of the classic antenna types, plus new and emerging designs, with 13 all-new chapters and important updates to nearly all chapters from past editions.Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fifth Edition, clearly explains cutting-edge applications in WLANs, automotive systems, PDAs, and handheld devices, making it an indispensable companion for today’s antenna practitioners and developers.Coverage includes:• Antenna basics and classic antennas• Design approaches for antennas and arrays• Wideband and multiband antennas• Antennas for mobile devices and PDAs, automotive applications, and aircraft• Base station and smart antennas• Beamforming and 5G antennas• Millimeter-wave and terahertz antennas• Flexible, wearable, thin film, origami, dielectric, and on-chip antennas• MIMO antennas and phased arrays• Direction-finding and GPS antennas• Active antennas• Low-profile wideband antennas• Nanoantennas• Reflectors and other satellite and radio-telescope antennas• Low-frequency, HF, VHF, UHF, ECM, and ESM antennas• Impedance-matching techniques and material characteristics• Metastructured and frequency selective surfaces• Propagation and guided structures• Computational techniques and toolsets• Indoor and outdoor measurements

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Next-generation small antenna design techniquesThis authoritative text provides the most up-to-date methods on the theory and design of small antennas, including an extensive survey of small antenna literature published over the past several years. Written by experts at the forefront of antenna research, Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques & Applications begins with a detailed presentation of small antenna theory--narrowband and wideband--and progresses to small antenna design methods, such as materials and shaping approaches for multiband and wideband antennas.Generic miniaturization techniques are presented for narrowband, multiband, and wideband antennas. Two chapters devoted to metamaterials antennas and methods to achieve optimal small antennas, as well as a chapter on RFID technologies and related antennas, are included in this comprehensive volume. Coverage includes:Small antenna theory and optimal parametersTheory and limits of wideband electrically small antennasExtensive literature survey of small antenna designsPractical antenna miniaturization approachesConformal wideband antennas based on spiralsNegative refractive index (NRI) metamaterial and electromagnetic band gap (EBG) based antennasSmall antennas based on magnetic photonic and degenerate band edge crystalsImpedance matching for small antennas using passive and active circuitsRFID antennas and technology