Approximate Antenna Analysis for CAD

Hubregt J. Visser is an experienced antenna designer with expertise from both academia and industry. He has worked at Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO in The Hague and at the European Space Research and Technology Centre. In 2001 he moved to TNO in Eindhoven, and took up a teaching assignment at Eindhoven University of Technology, teaching undergraduate electromagnetism courses, graduate courses on antenna theory and post graduate courses on microstrip patch antenna design. Hubregt Visser has written several conference and journal papers and is author of the book Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics.

Contents. Preface. References. Acknowledgments. Acronyms. 1 Introduction. 1.1 The History of Antennas and Antenna Analysis. 1.2 Antenna Synthesis. 1.3 Approximate Antenna Modeling. 1.4 Organisation of the Book. 1.5 Summary. References. 2 Intravascular MR Antennas - Loops and Solenoids. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 MRI. 2.3 Intravascular MR Antennas. 2.4 MR Antenna Model. 2.5 Antenna Evaluation. 2.6 In Vitro Testing. 2.7 Antenna Synthesis. 2.8 Safety Aspects. 2.9 Conclusions. References. Appendix A. Biot and Savart Law for Quasi-Static Situation. 3 PCB Antennas - Printed Monopoles. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Printed UWB Antenna. 3.3 Printed Strip Monopole Antenna. 3.4 Conclusions. References. 4 RFID Antennas - Folded Dipoles. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Wire Folded Dipole Antenna. 4.3 Impedance Control. 4.4 Asymmetric Coplanar Strip Folded Dipole Antenna on a Dielectric Slab. 4.5 Folded Dipole Array Antenna. 4.6 Conclusions. 5 Rectennas - Microstrip Patch Antennas. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Rectenna Design Improvements. 5.3 Analytical Models. 5.4 Model Verication. 5.5 Wireless Battery. 5.6 Power and Data Transfer. 5.7 RF Energy Scavenging. 5.8 Conclusions. 6 Large Array Antennas - Open-Ended Rectangular Waveguide Radiators. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Waveguide Fields. 6.3 Unit Cell Fields. 6.4 Rectangular Waveguide Cross-Sectional Step. 6.5 Rectangular Waveguide Unit Cell Junction. 6.6 Dielectric Step in the Unit Cell. 6.7 Finite Length Transmission Line. 6.8 Overall GSM of a Cascaded Rectangular Waveguide Structure. 6.9 Validation. 6.10 Conclusions. References. Appendix A. Waveguide Mode Orthogonality and Normalisation Functions. Appendix B. Mode Coupling Integrals for Waveguide to Waveguide Junction. Appendix C. Unit Cell Mode Orthogonality and Normalisation Functions. Appendix D. Mode Coupling Integrals for Rectangular Waveguide to Unit Cell Junction. 7 Summary and Conclusions. 7.1 Full-Wave and Approximate Antenna Analysis. 7.2 Intravascular MR Antennas - Loops and Solenoids. 7.3 PCB Antennas - Printed Monopoles. 7.4 RFID Antennas - Folded Dipoles. 7.5 Rectennas - Microstrip Patch Antennas. 7.6 Large Array Antennas - Open-Ended Rectangular. Waveguide Radiators. References. Index.