Stacked Antennas: Design, Analysis and Applications

The text focuses primarily on details related to design concepts of stacked microstrip antennas, performance characteristics, and complete static analysis based on different approaches. It will further provide readers with an in-depth understanding of static analysis approaches for analyzing and understanding the performance of multi-layered stacked antennas. The book covers important topics such as conformal mapping, the transmission-line equivalent model-based approach, and the microstrip patch antenna model. The book also discusses reconfigurable stacked microstrip antennas, stacked microstrip antenna arrays, and a wide range of potential applications of stacked microstrip antennas.

This book:

• Presents systematic and simplified design steps of stacked antennas, the factors involved, and various design examples and explains static analysis of multi-layered stacked antennas in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Discusses topics such as conformal mapping, the transmission-line equivalent model-based approach, and the microstrip patch antenna model and reconfigurable stacked microstrip antennas and their applications, along with briefly discussing the design concepts of stacked microstrip antenna arrays.
• Covers simulation, design concepts, and measurement techniques for stacked microstrip antennas.
• Illustrates microstrip stacked antenna parameters, including bandwidth, polarization, radiation pattern, gain, directivity, and efficiency.
• Focuses on covering a wide range of potential applications of stacked microstrip antennas.

It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in fields including electrical engineering, electronics, and communications engineering.

Ankita Malhotra received her B. Tech in Electronics and Communications engineering from Kumaun Engineering College Uttarakhand in 2009 and her M. Tech in Microwaves from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, in 2011. She received her PhD in RF and Microwave domain from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2017. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Telecommunications department of SVKM’s D J Sanghvi College of Engineering Mumbai, since November 2023. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology Mumbai from 2017-2023. She also worked as RF consultant at Vehaant Technologies Noida and SPEZL Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai. Her research interests include Reconfigurable Broadband antennas, Microwave Imaging, Computational electromagnetics, and MIMO phased array antennas. She is a recipient of the Top-up scholarship award by Bharti Airtel during her PhD and has authored/co-authored more than 12 reputed Journal and Conference publications. She is an active reviewer at many reputed Journals and Conferences including IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IET Image Processing, and International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies.

Ananjan Basu was born August 12, 1969. He received the B. Tech degree in electrical engineering and M. Tech degree in communication and radar engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (I.I.T.Delhi), in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in1998. He has been with the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, I.I.T. Delhi, as an Assistant Professor (2000–2005), Associate Professor (2005-2012) and Professor (since 2012). His specialization is in microwave and millimeter-wave component design and characterization. He is currently the Head of the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, I.I.T. Delhi. He is a senior member of IEEE and Editor of IETE Journal. His research interests include microwave and millimetre-wave component design, microwave imaging, wideband and reconfigurable antennas, and guided wave analysis.