Kao-Cheng Huang & David J. Edwards 
Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit Wireless Communications 
A Practical Guide to Design and Analysis in a System Context

Complete and comprehensive application-focused reference on
millimetre wave antennas

Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit Wireless
Communications covers a vast wealth of material with a strong
focus on the current design and analysis principles of millimetre
wave antennas for wireless devices. It provides practising
engineers with the design rules and considerations required in
designing antennas for the terminal. The authors include coverage
of new configurations with advanced angular and frequency filtering
characteristics, new design and analysis techniques, and methods
for filter miniaturization. The book reviews up-to-date research
results and utilizes numerous design examples to emphasize computer
analysis and synthesis whilst also discussing the applications of
commercially available software.

Key Features:

* Advanced and up-to-date treatment of one of the fastest growing
fields of wireless communications

* Covers topics such as Gigabit wireless communications and its
required antennas, passive and active antenna design and analysis
techniques, multibeam antennas and MIMO, IEEE 802.15.3c,
Wi Media®, and advanced materials and technologies

* Offers a practical guide to integrated antennas for specific
configurations requirements

* Addresses a number of complex, real-world problems that system
and antenna engineers are going to face in millimetre-wave
communications industry and provides solutions

* Contains detailed design examples, drawings and predicted
performance

This book is an invaluable tool for antenna professionals
(engineers, designers, and developers), microwave professionals,
wireless communication system professionals, and industries with
microwave and millimetre wave research projects. Advanced students
and researchers working in the field of millimetre wave engineering
will also find this book very useful.

Table of Content

Preface

List of Abbreviations

1 Gigabit Wireless Communications

1.1 Gigabit Wireless Communications

1.2 Regulatory Issues

1.3 Millimetre Wave Characterisations

1.4 Channel Performance

1.5 System Design and Performance

1.6 Antenna Requirements

1.7 Link Budget

1.8 Summary

References

2 Critical Antenna Parameters

2.1 Path Loss and Antenna Directivity

2.2 Antenna Beamwidth

2.3 Maximum Possible Gain-to-Q

2.4 Antenna Polarisation

References

3 Planar Antennas

3.1 Printed Antennas

3.2 Slot Antennas

3.3 Quasi-Yagi Antennas

3.4 Bow-Tie Antennas

3.5 Reflector Antennas

3.6 Millimetre Wave Design Consideration

3.7 Production and Manufacture

References

4 Horn Antennas

4.1 Waveguide Modes

4.2 Multimode Horn Antenna

4.3 Integrated Horn

4.4 Cylinder Horn and Circular Polarisation

4.5 Tilt Horn

4.6 Dielectric Sectoral Horn

References

5 Dielectric Antennas

5.1 Dielectric Resonator Antennas

5.2 Dielectric Rod Antenna

5.3 Maximum Gain Rod Antenna

5.4 Dual Rod

5.5 Patch-Fed Circular Rod

5.6 Rod Array and Phase Compensation

5.7 Optimisation of a Rod Antenna

References

6 Lens Antennas

6.1 Luneberg Lens

6.2 Hemispherical Lens

6.3 Extended Hemispherical Lens

6.4 Off-Axis Extended Hemispherical Lens

6.5 Planar Lens Array

6.6 Metal Plate Lens Antennas

References

7 Multiple Antennas

7.1 The 60 GHz Multibeam Antenna

7.2 Antenna Array

7.3 Millimetre Wave Arrays

7.4 Mutual Coupling between Antennas

References

8 Smart Antennas

8.1 Beam-Switching Antennas

8.2 Beam-Steering/Forming Antennas

8.3 Millimetre Wave MIMO

8.4 Mode-Tracking Antennas

References

9 Advanced Antenna Materials

9.1 Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics

9.2 Liquid Crystal Polymer

9.3 CMOS

9.4 Left-Handed Material

9.5 High-Temperature Superconducting Antenna

9.6 Nano Antennas

References

10 High-Speed Wireless Applications

10.1 V-Band Antenna Applications

10.2 E-Band Antenna Applications

10.3 Distributed Antenna System

10.4 Wireless Mesh Networks

References

Index

About the author

KAO-CHENG HUANG, Ph D, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology UK, Vice President at the Dharma Academy, and President of the Association of Vijnaptimatrata of China in Taiwan. Dr. Huang is the author of two previous books, including Millimeter Wave Communication Systems, and holds several patents in the area of millimeter wave antennas.

David J. Edwards is with Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science in the U.K.