Antennas : parameters, models and applications / Albert I. Ferrero, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferrero, Albert I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antennas (Electronics).

Wave guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An antenna is a transducer designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic waves. This books explores antennas for wireless biomedical devices, resistance rectangular patch antenna with uniaxial substrate, maximum penetration depth study in a ground penetrating radar survey, and much more.

Contents:

""Antennas: Parameters, Models and Applications""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Antennas for Wireless Biomedical Devices""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Biomedical Signals Acquisition""; ""Biomedical Wireless Acquisition Systems""; ""Wearable Wireless Localization Devices""; ""Wireless Biodevices inside the Human Body""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""References""; ""Antenna-Lanthanide Complexes: A Growing Technology-Driven Research""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Electronic Structure and Coordination Properties of Lanthanide Cations""; ""Acyclic Ligands""

""Macrocyclic and Macropolycyclic Ligands""""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Design and Optimisation of Antennas Using Genetic Algorithms for Wireless Communications""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Genetic Algorithm""; ""3. Nec-2 Source Code""; ""4. Examples on Antenna Designs Using GA""; ""5. Adaptive Meshing for Numerical Antenna Designs Using GA""; ""6. Design of Harmonic Suppression Antennas with Adaptive Meshing Using Ga""; ""7. Summary""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""References""; ""Application of SMA Wire Actuators in Flatness Control of Membrane SAR Antennae""; ""Abstract""

""Introduction""""SMA Preliminary Testing Results""; ""SMA Control Strategy Development and Testing""; ""Active Flatness Control System Integration""; ""Testing of Membrane SAR Flatness Control""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""Multiple Antenna Coding & Signal Processing: Space-Time Coding for Wireless Communications""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Diversity Techniques""; ""3. Space-Time Block Codes & Space-Time Trellis Codes""; ""4. Non-orthogonal ST Codes""; ""5. Mathematical Models""; ""6. Channel Characteristics""; ""7. Concatenated ST Coding""; ""8. Channel Knowledge""

""9. Diversity Gain versus Spatial Multiplexing Gain""""10. Maximum Likelihood STBC Decoding""; ""11. Simulation Results""; ""12. Conclusions and Future Work""; ""References""; ""Resistive Rectangular Patch Antenna with Uniaxial Substrate""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Theory""; ""3. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Antennal Sensillar Morphology, Structure and Function in Parasitic Wasps""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""

""Measuring of Parameters of the Acoustic Antenna Arising at Braking and Stopping of the Proton Beam in Water and Research of Characteristics of Created Field""""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Methodical Aspects""; ""3. Trace I""; ""4. Trace II""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Optimization of Non-Uniform Linear and Circular Phased Arrays Using Genetic Algorithms to Provide Maximum Interference Reduction in Wireless Communication Systems""; ""Abstract""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Problem Statement""

""III. Optimization of Non-Uniform Linear and Circular Arrays to Provide Maximum Interference Reduction""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60876-285-8

OCLC:

923657713