target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#u0b67a72e-0975-5e2a-a23c-519184362446">Chapter 8: Special Topics. This final chapter presents some of the latest important developments in antennas. It covers mobile antennas and antenna diversity, RFID antennas, multiband and broadband antennas, reconfigurable antennas, and electrically small antennas. Both the theory and practical examples are given.
The authors are indebted to the many individuals who provided useful comments, suggestions, and assistance to make this book a reality. In particular, we would like to thank Shahzad Maqbool, Barry Cheeseman, and Yang Lu at the University of Liverpool for constructive feedback and producing figures, Staff at Wiley for their help and critical review of the book, Lars Foged at SATIMO and Mike Hillbun at Diamond Engineering for their contribution to Chapter 7, and the individuals and organizations who have provided us with their figures or allowed us to reproduce their figures.
Yi Huang and Kevin Boyle
Acronyms and Constants
ε8.85419×10−12 F/mμ4μ×10−7 H/mη≈377 ΩhPlanck’s constant = 6.63 × 10−34 Jsj
About the Author
Prof Yi Huang received BSc in Physics (Wuhan, China) in 1984, MSc (Eng) in Microwave Engineering (Nanjing, China) in 1987, and DPhil in Communications from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1994. He has been conducting research in the areas of antennas, wireless communications, applied electromagnetics, and radar since 1987. More recently, he is focused on mobile antennas, wireless energy harvesting, and power transfer. His experience includes three years spent with NRIET (China) as a Radar Engineer and various periods with the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, and Essex in the United Kingdom as a member of research staff. He worked as a Research Fellow at British Telecom Labs in 1994 and then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, as a Faculty in 1995, where he is now a Chair Professor in Wireless Engineering, the Head of High Frequency Engineering Group.
Dr Huang has published over 400 refereed papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings and authored three books. He has received many patents, research grants from research councils, government agencies, charity, EU, and industry and is a recipient of over 10 awards (e.g. BAE Systems Chairman’s Award 2017 for Innovation for Next Generation GNSS Antenna, Highly Recommended IET Innovation Award 2018, and Best Paper Awards). He has served on a number of national and international technical committees and been an Editor, Associate Editor, or Guest Editor of five international journals. In addition, he has been a keynote/invited speaker and organizer of many conferences and workshops (e.g. IEEE iWAT2010, LAPC2012, and EuCAP2018). He is at present the Editor‐in‐Chief of Wireless Engineering and Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, United Kingdom, and Ireland Rep to European Association of Antenna and Propagation (EurAAP), a Fellow of IET and IEEE, and Senior Fellow of HEA.
More information about him can be found from:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/electrical‐engineering‐and‐electronics/staff/yi‐huang/
