Antennas
From Theory to Practice
Second Edition
Yi Huang
Professor of Wireless EngineeringThe University of Liverpool, UK
This edition first published 2021
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Huang, Yi, 1964- author.
Title: Antennas : from theory to practice / Yi Huang, Professor of Wireless Engineering, The University of Liverpool, UK.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021007217 (print) | LCCN 2021007218 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119092322 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119092339 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119092346 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Antennas (Electronics)
Classification: LCC TK7871.6 .H79 2021 (print) | LCC TK7871.6 (ebook) | DDC 621.382/4–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007217 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007218
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Preface to the Second Edition
Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2008, it has attracted a lot of attention from university students, professors, researchers as well as engineers in the industry. The book has been adopted by many universities around the world as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and used as a reference book for antenna research and designs. It was translated to Korean as a major antenna book in 2014. The main attraction and success of the book are its distinct and unique feature from other well‐known antenna books: it has integrated the antenna theory with real‐world examples from the past to the present into one volume without excessive mathematics. This feature has been maintained in this new edition.
Based on the success of the first edition, this edition has provided a better coverage in many important areas and added some recent and latest developments in antenna theory and practice. In particular, the theory of characteristic modes (Section 6.5) for antenna design and analysis, new materials (e.g. composite materials, metamaterials, and meta‐surfaces in Section 7.1), fabrication processes (Section 7.2), and advanced measurement methods for antennas (Section 7.3). MIMO antennas, automotive antennas, and reflector antennas have been added to Special Topics in Chapter 8 to reflect some of the current hot topics. Every chapter has been updated with the latest information. Of course, the mistakes and errors identified in the first edition have also been corrected. As a result, the number of pages is increased significantly from 360 to over 500.
As an essential element of a radio system, the antenna has always been an interesting but difficult subject for radio‐frequency (RF) engineering students and engineers. Many good books on antennas have been published over the years, and some of them were used as our major references.
This book is different from other antenna books. It is especially designed for the people who are relatively new to antennas but would like to learn this subject from the basics to advanced antenna analyses, designs, and measurements within a relatively short period of time. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of antennas, one must also know transmission lines and radio propagation. At the moment, people often have to read a number of different books, which may not be well correlated. Thus, it is not the most efficient way to study this subject. In this book, we put all the necessary information about antennas into a single manuscript and try to examine the antenna from both the circuit point of view and the field point of view. The book covers the basic transmission line and radio propagation theories, which are then used to gain a good understanding of antenna basics and theory. Various antennas are examined, and design examples are presented. Particular attention is given to modern computer‐aided antenna designs. Both basic and advanced computer software packages are used as examples to illustrate how they can be used for antenna analysis and design. Antenna materials, fabrication processes, measurement theory, and techniques are also addressed. Some special topics on the latest antenna development are covered in the final chapter.
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