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- Presents novel results that have never been publishes
- Shows hot to produce and cheap and highly efficient antenna arrays
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE, volume 19)
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Antennas represent a critical technology in any of these wireless systems. Not only do they directly affect the received power of the system, they are also typically the largest and most visible part. Recently, the need for low-cost, low-profile, and lightweight antenna in the frequency range of the microwave/millimeter wave/THz band has regained momentum.
"Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays" provides us a with the basics of the various Fresnel Antenna approaches, in order to achieve low-cost, low-profile, and lightweight antenna in the microwave/millimeter wave band. A potential solution of the antenna problem lies in using lens technology in an array. The Fresnel zone plate lens (FZPL) antenna is in particular an interesting candidate for the array element. The limiting focusing properties of FZPL including subwave length focus are described in detail. The book further presents a novel hexagonal FZPL antenna which can be more effectively packed in an array due to its shape.
Before considering the hexagonal FZPL antenna in an array, the authors investigate two ideas, described as methods to potentially improve the radiation characteristics. The first idea is to change the reference phase of the Fresnel zone radii - a novel free parameter in the usual design of zone plate’s lenses and antennas. To further improve the radiation characteristics of the hexagonal FZPL antenna, a technique involving Fresnel zone rotation is investigated.
The book is of interest for designers of optical systems because, taking scaling effects into account, the characteristics of diffractive quasioptical elements are valid for diffractive focusing elements of integrated optics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays
Authors: Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79559-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79558-2Published: 06 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09850-5Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79559-9Published: 31 May 2008
Series ISSN: 1876-1100
Series E-ISSN: 1876-1119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 199
Topics: Electrical Engineering, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
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