Small antenna fundamentals and technologies: Future trends

This paper is an overview of the on-going research work carried out at the Antenna Centre of Excellence regarding small antenna technologies. After a review of the state of the art in the area of small antennas and their fundamentals, growing technologies are identified. When dealing with advanced systems, the actual analytical modeling techniques, basically formulated for a single port quasi-resonant stand-alone antenna are not completely valid anymore. A deep approach to the requirements, modeling and design techniques for the future small antennas must be carried out, which implies a special research effort.