Award in 2015, and the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Antenna and Propagation Best Student Paper Award in 2016. He was also a recipient of Electronic Industry Advancement Award (1st Class, Sichuan Province, P. R. China) in 1993 and 1995, Electronic Industry Advancement Award (3rd Class, Sichuan Province, P. R. China) in 1995 and 1997, Science and Technology Advancement Award (2nd Class, Ministry of Electronic Industry, P. R. China) in 1994, Science and Technology Advancement Award (3rd Class, Ministry of Electronic Industry, P. R. China) in 1997, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award (Singapore) in 2006, 2013, and 2014, and Singapore Manufacturing Federation Award in 2014.
Dr. Qing is a fellow of IEEE. He is serving as the associate editor of IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology and the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (Cambridge University Press/EuMA), the editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Electronics (Chinese Institute of Electronics). He also served as the general co‐chair of the IEEE Asia‐Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2015/2018, the International Symposium on InfoComm & Mechatronics Technology in Biomedical & Healthcare Application 2016 (IS 3Tin3A in 2016). He is currently servicing as the member for MTT‐26 RFID, Wireless Sensor and IoT Committee as well as the general co‐chair of 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC‐URSI Radio Science Meeting.
Contributors
Zhi Ning Chen
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117583 Republic of Singapore
E‐mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Ke Gong
Xinyang Normal University
237#, Nanhu Road, Xinyang, 464000, People's Republic of China
Email: [email protected]
Teng Li
Southeast University
Sipailou 2, Nanjing, 210096, People's Republic of China
Email: [email protected]
Yue Li
Tsinghua University
Rohm Building 8‐302, Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China
Email: [email protected]
Wei Liu
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117583 Republic of Singapore
E‐mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Xianming Qing
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21‐01 Connexis (South Tower), Singapore 138632, Republic of Singapore Email: [email protected]
Lei Wang
Heriot‐Watt University
Room 2.02, Earl Mountbatten Building Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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Xiaoxing Yin
Southeast University
Room South 608, Liwenzheng Building Sipailou 2, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
Email: [email protected]
Yan Zhang
Southeast University
Room A3415, Bldg A3, Wireless Valley (Wu Xian Gu), Mo Zhou Dong Lu 9
Nanjing, 211111, People's Republic of China
Email: [email protected]
Foreword
There are now massive research articles and presentations on the design and analysis of millimeter wave antennas, providing evidence that the topic has reached an age of maturity. Professor Zhi Ning Chen and his colleagues and former graduate students have made significant contributions in this area for years. This book is very timely as many upcoming wireless systems will be operated at millimeter wave frequencies, including 5G mobile communications, collision avoidance systems for cars, autonomous control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, satellite radar and communication systems, and so forth.
The readers will find the book coverage both wide and deep. After describing the details on the features of millimeter wave technology and unique challenges of antenna design as well as millimeter wave measurement techniques and experimental setups, various techniques for improving the performance of classical antennas for the operation at millimeter waves, realizing by LTCC technologies, are reviewed and disclosed. Those antenna designs include low‐profile substrate‐integrated waveguide slot antennas, broadband antenna arrays on metamaterials, substrate‐integrated cavity antennas, cavity‐backed substrate‐integrated waveguide slot antennas with large apertures, circularly polarized substrate integrated waveguide slot antennas, microstrip antennas with suppressed surface wave losses, substrate integrated antennas for automotive radars, and substrate edge radiating antennas. Pattern synthesizing techniques for achieving low sidelobe are also reviewed.
The book will have widespread appeal to practicing engineers, research scholars, and postgraduate students. I would like to congratulate Professor Zhi Ning Chen and his co‐authors on the production of this important text, which will be of great benefit to the antenna community globally.
Professor Kwai‐Man Luk FREng, FIEEE
City University of Hong Kong
Preface
Millimeter‐wave technologies have a long history. In early 2000, the topic became hot again due to the unlicensed 60‐GHz wireless communications for short‐range links (later IEEE 802.11ad). As antenna researchers we thought how we can contribute to the research and development of the new wave of millimeter‐wave systems. After the comprehensive study of the unique challenges of antenna design at millimeter‐wave bands, we decided to focus on three issues: loss control, integration, and testing setups. Since 2008 we have conducted the loss analysis of all designs and proposed technologies to control the losses caused by materials, surface waves, and feeding structures. We have explored almost all ways to integrate the antennas and arrays into a variety of substrate from printed circuit board (PCB), low‐temperature
