"Modern Antenna Systems" ed. by Mohammad A. Matin

This volume is dedicated to significant progress in the field of antennas for modern wireless communication.

The field of antenna engineering has been advancing at a remarkable pace to support modern communication systems. Recently, significant progress has been made in the development of new antennas and techniques targeted for applications in medical, defense, health care, communication, etc.

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction and Outline
2 Recent Computer-Aided Design Techniques for Rectangular Microstrip Antenna
3 Application of Composite Right/Left-Handed Metamaterials in Leaky-Wave Antennas
4 Metamaterial Antennas for Wireless Communications Transceivers
5 Planar Antennas with Enhanced Bandwidth and Radiation Characteristics
6 Compact Antenna with Enhanced Performances Using Artificial Meta-Surfaces
7 A Circularly Polarized Spiral/Loop Antenna and Its Simple Feeding Mechanism
8 Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Antenna with High Gain in Wide Bandwidth
9 Investigating EM Dipole Radiating Element for Dual Polarized Phased Array Weather Radars
10 Micro-Switch Design and Its Optimization Using Pattern Search Algorithm for Application in Reconfigurable Antenna