Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit Wireless Communications: A Practical Guide to Design and Analysis in a System Context

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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8 Smart Antennas

8.1 Beam-Switching Antennas

8.2 Beam-Steering/Forming Antennas

8.3 Millimetre Wave MIMO

8.4 Mode-Tracking Antennas

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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

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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

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Index