Practical Antenna (Smart Technologies for Engineers and Scientists)

Antennas are an important component of every communication systems, including radio, television, satellite, radar, and cellular networks which transmits and receive radio waves over the wireless channel. The field of antenna is quite vast, and with the current development in the wireless technologies enormous amount of work and effort has been put in the design, analysis, and applications of antennas. As an individual, a reader has to put a lot of effort to understand the modern antenna analysis and design for various applications. Therefore, the editors and authors of this book have come-up with an idea of putting all the necessary information required at one centralized place in the form of a book. The readers of this book will be able to access all the necessary information of antennas, from basic to advanced, theory to practical and its modern applications. The text provides information on antenna design for next generation communication systems and IoT applications, followed by the integration of the antennas in the wireless system, and also covers multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) antennas, metasurface antennas, reconfigurable antennas, fractal antennas and design of beamforming networks.

This book:

• Focuses on modern antennas for 5G communication systems and next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) networks
• Highlights fractal radiator-based printed linear antenna arrays designed for direct broadcast satellite applications with a particular focus on direct-to home (DTH) services
• Covers the implementation of modern swarm intelligence optimization techniques for antenna array pattern synthesis                 
• Includes general framework for the design and optimization of metasurface antennas
• Presents design and development of high-gain millimeter-wave beam switching antennas using passive frequency selective surfaces (FSS)

This book can also serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate, post-graduate students, as well as researchers working in radio frequency (RF) and microwave.

Abhishek Kumar Awasthi completed his B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College Ghaziabad (UPTU Lucknow) in the year 2008. He did his M. Tech. in Digital Communication from Ambedkar Institute of Technology Delhi (GGSIP University Delhi) in 2011 and doctoral degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering (RF and Microwave) of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2018. Currently he is working as a Deputy Manager RF, Paras Antidrone Technologies Private Limited, Mumbai, India. Prior to that he has worked at Remote Sensing Center at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL USA as an Associate Research Engineer. His major research interests include design, optimize, fabricate, and develop various active and passive microwave circuits for the radars. Particularly, he is working on the radars with application in ice sounding and soil moisture measurement. He has also actively worked on the assembly and field test of the radar for soil moisture and snow measurements. Apart from radar design, he has worked on the antenna array design for various applications. He has mainly worked on design of the antenna arrays which includes the study of inter-element coupling and its effects on the performance of the antenna arrays, design of compact and ultra-wide band antenna arrays, shared aperture antenna arrays, antenna arrays for airborne applications.

Abhinav Sharma received his B. Tech. from H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, India, in 2009 and the M. Tech. and Ph. D. from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, in 2011 and 2016. He is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. He has taught subjects such as data communication networks, microprocessor and embedded system, artificial intelligence and machine learning, communication systems. He has publications in many national and international journals and conferences. His field of interest includes adaptive array signal processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, optimization techniques and smart antennas.

Kushmanda Saurav received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunication from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India, in 2009, the M. Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, in 2011,
and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2017. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Royal Military College Canada. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Jammu, India. His research interests include microwave and millimeter wave antennas and frequency selective surfaces. He has published more than 75 research papers in esteemed journals and conferences. He has served as reviewers in IEEE, IET and Wiley Journals. He is actively involved in the professional activities of the IEEE. He is a senior member of IEEE and currently the faculty advisor of IEEE MTTS and APS Student Branch Chapters of IIT Jammu. He has rich experience of supervising M. Tech. and PhD students and undertaking sponsored projects.