Printed Antennas for Future Generation Wireless Communication and Healthcare

Dr. Balaka Biswas received her B.E degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal and thereafter finished her masters in the year 2008. She received 1st class 1st (gold medal) in M.Tech and subsequently joined in the Ph.D program in Jadavpur University, Kolkata with DST-INSPIRE fellowship. Later, she joined CSIO-CSIR, Chandigarh as a SRA under Scientist Pool scheme and did her Post-Doc from IISER, Mohali. Currently, she is working in Chandigarh University, Mohali as an Associate Professor. She has more than 25 publications in reputed referred journals and conferences. She serves as a reviewer in several top tier journals, like- IEEE Trans. on Antenna propagation, IETE Journals, PIER-C, PIER-M, JEMWA, etc. She is life member of IETE, ISSE and Indian Science Congress Association. Ayan Karmakar received the B.Tech degree (Electronics and Communication) from WBUT, Kolkata in 2005. Later he did his masters from NIT, Durgapur. He joined ISRO as a ‘Scientist’ and subsequently posted to Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh. His research interests include design and development of passive microwave integrated circuits and antennas using silicon based MIC and RF-MEMS technology. His field of expertise are expanded in fabrication technology of various MEMS based sensors and evolving the test strategies for the same. He has more than 40 publications in reputed journals and conferences at various national and international levels. In 2019, he has authored one technical book named ‘Si-RF Technology’ from Springer Publication, Singapore. He is a Fellow member of IETE, India and life member of Indian Science Congress Association, ISSE and Bangiya Bigyan Parishad.

Chapter 1
Printed Antennas for Modern day Communication

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Types of Printed antennas
1.3 Summarization
References
Problems

Chapter 2
Fractals in printed antenna

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Cantor set
2.3 Koch Curve
2.4 Sierpinski carpet
2.5 Sierpinski gasket
2.6 Minkwoski Fractal
2.7 Pythagore tree fractal
2.8 Hilbert Curve fractal
2.9 Background study of fractal in antenna engineering
2.10 Recent works on fractals in antenna engineering
2.11 Summarization
References
Problems

Chapter 3
Printed version of UWB antenna : Evolutionary steps

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Initial developmental phase
3.3 Improvement/developmental phase of UWB antenna
3.4 Band notch characteristics of UWB antenna
3.5 A brief review on tapered slot antenna
3.6 Summarization
References
Problems

Chapter 4
Modeling of printed Antenna

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Modeling of Electrically Small Antenna
4.3 Circuit modeling
4.4 Modeling of fractal based UWB antenna
4.5 Modeling of Reconfigurable MEMS based Patch antenna
4.6 Summary

References
Problems

Chapter 5
Printed Antennas for Biomedical Application

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Inside the capsule antenna development
5.3 Outside the Capsule Antenna Development
5.4 Link budget analysis
5.5 Summary

References
Problems

Chapter High Gain Printed Antenna for Sub-millimeter Wave Application

6.1 Introduction
6.2 Design and Development of High Gain Printed Antenna
6.3 Summary
References
Problems

Chapter 7
Systematic investigation of various commonly associated imperfections in printed antenna technology and its empirical modeling

7.1 Introduction
7.2 Fabrication related imperfections
7.3 IC ASSEMBLY OR PACKAGING RELATED ISSUES
7.4 Summary
References
Problems

Chapter 8
Multiple Input Multiple Output(MIMO) technology in Printed antenna

8.1 Background and history
8.2 Performance metrics of MIMO antenna
8.3 Challenges in MIMO antenna designing
8.4 Different Methods to reduce mutual coupling
8.5 Types of MIMO antennas
8.6 MIMO antennas in Biomedical Usage
8.7 Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna
8.8 Conclusion
References
Problems

Chapter9
Printed version of Antenna for Medical Imaging

9.1 Introduction
9.2 Types of Microwave Imaging
9.3 Antenna for microwave imaging
References
Problems

Chapter 10
Rectenna : A frontier for future wireless communication

10.1 Introduction
10.2 Performance metrics of RF harvester
10.3 Design protocols of RF energy harvesting circuit
10.4 Building blocks of Rectenna
10.5 Practical applications of RF energy harvester
10.6 Conclusion

References
Problems



Appendix
Appendix-1 RF and Microwave frequency spectrum along with practical applications
Appendix-2 Comparison of different planar antenna
Appendix-3 Comparison of various computational electromagnetic solvers
Appendix-4 Popular types of planar Antennas for antenna-in-package (AiP) configuration