Advanced Antenna Array Engineering for 6g and Beyond Wireless Communications (Hardcover)

Author Biographies

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 A Perspective of Antennas for 5G and 6G

1.1 5G Requirements of Antenna Arrays

1.2 6G and Its Antenna Requirements

1.3 From Digital to Hybrid Multiple Beamforming

1.4 Analog Multiple Beamforming

1.5 Millimeter-Wave Antennas

1.6 THz Antennas

1.7 Lens Antennas 

1.8 SIMO and MIMO Multi-beam Antennas

1.9 In-Band Full Duplex Antennas

1.10 Conclusions

Chapter 2 Millimeter-Wave Beam Forming Networks

1.            Circuit-Type BFNs: SIW Based Bulter and Nolen Matrixes

2.            Quasi Optical BFNs: Rotman Lens and Reflectors 

3.            Conclusions

Chapter 3 Decoupling Methods for Antenna Arrays

3.1. Electromagnetic Band-gap Structures

3.2. Defected Ground Structures

3.3 Neutralization Lines

3.4. Array-Antenna Decoupling Surfaces

3.5 Metamaterial Structures

3.6 Parasitic Resonators

3.7 Conclusions

Chapter 4 De-scattering Methods for Coexistent Antenna Arrays

4.1 De-scattering vs Decoupling in Coexistent Antenna Arrays 

4.2 Mantle Cloak De-Scattering 

4.3 Lumped-Choke De-Scattering

4.4 Distributed-Choke De-Scattering

4.5 Mitigating the Effect of HB Antennas on LB Antennas

4.6 Conclusions

Chapter 5 Differentially-fed Antenna Arrays 

5.1 Differential Systems

5.2 Differential-fed Antenna Elements

5.3 Differential-fed Antenna Arrays 

5.4 Differential-fed Multi-Beam Antennas

5.5 Conclusions

Chapter 6 Conformal Transmitarrays

6.1 Conformal Transmitarrays Challenges

6.2 Conformal Transmitarrays Employing Triple-Layer Elements

6.3 Beam Scanning Conformal Transmitarrays

6.4 Conformal Transmitarray Employing Ultra-thin Dual-Layer Huygens Elements

6.5 Elliptically Conformal Multibeam Transmitarray with Wide-Angle Scanning Ability  

6.6 Conclusions

Chapter 7 Frequency Independent Beam Scanning Leaky Wave Antennas

7.1 Reconfigurable Fabry-Pérot (FP) LWA

7.2 Period-Reconfigurable SIW Based LWA

7.3 Reconfigurable Composite Right/Left-Handed LWA

7.4 Two Dimensional Multibeam Leaky Wave Antenna

7.5 Conclusions

Chapter 8 Beam Pattern Synthesis of Analogue Arrays

8.1 Thinned Antenna Arrays

8.2 Arrays with Rotated Elements

8.3 Arrays with Tracking Abilities Employing Sum and Difference Patterns

8.4 Synthesis of SIMO Arrays