Abstract :
The following topics are dealt with: microstrip components; metamaterials: scattering, diffraction, and guided-wave phenomena; evaluation of MIMO antennas and systems; extremely wideband antennas and systems; reflectarray and transmit array antennas: theory, designs, and applications; medical applications and biological effects; multi-frequency antennas; efficient approaches in the method of moments; millimeter-wave and passive sensing; rough surface scattering: models and phenomenology; microstrip antennas; advanced MIMO topics; numerical methods; material characterization; recent advances in reflectarrays and transmitarrays; medical telemetry; multi-band antennas for mobile communications; vehicular antennas; subsurface sensing and random media; 60 GHz antennas and components; UHF antennas for RFID readers and rugged environments; microstrip antenna arrays; wideband antennas and arrays, high order and macro basis functions; microwave breast cancer detection and imaging; agile antennas; advances in electrically small antennas; broadband antennas; propagation in complex environments, aperture and array antenna feed considerations; microstrip, patch, and integrated antennas; reflectors, horns, and array antennas; antenna theory; design techniques for reflectarrays; innovative methods in reconfigurable antennas and arrays; UHF RFID tags; metamaterial antenna applications; power harvesting; integral equation models for advanced design; antenna systems for unleashing new possibilities in cognitive radios; wideband antennas and arrays; imaging, inverse scattering, and remote sensing; non-antenna metamaterial applications; miniaturized and compact antennas; substrate and superstrate effects and antennas with periodic structures; antenna theory, modeling, and analysis; antennas for wireless communications; electromagnetics education and outreach; antennas for RFID-enabled sensors; directional UWB antennas for the 2-12 GHz region; biomimetics and biologically inspired syst- ms in electromagnetics; pattern reconfigurable antennas and arrays; dielectric resonator antenna applications; mobile, broadband, and ultra wideband antennas; electromagnetic band gap devices; electromagnetic properties of materials; electrically small antennas; advances in phased array design; finite-difference time-domain methods; time-domain techniques; time-domain methods; indoor and outdoor propagation models; wideband antennas; and radar target identification and detection.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna theory; cognitive radio; finite difference time-domain analysis; horn antennas; indoor radio; metamaterial antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; mobile antennas; object detection; radiofrequency identification; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband antennas; MIMO antennas; RFID-enabled sensors; UHF antennas; agile antennas; antenna theory; aperture antennas feed; array antenna feed; biologically inspired systems; biomimetics; broadband antennas; cognitive radios; compact antennas; dielectric resonator antenna applications; directional UWB antennas; electrically small antennas; electromagnetic band gap devices; electromagnetic properties; electromagnetics; extremely wideband antennas; finite-difference time-domain methods; horns antennas; indoor propagation; integral equation models; integrated antennas; inverse scattering; material characterization; medical telemetry; metamaterial antenna applications; metamaterials; microstrip antenna arrays; microstrip antennas; microstrip components; microwave breast cancer detection and imaging; millimeter-wave; miniaturized antennas; mobile antennas; mobile communications; multiband antennas; multifrequency antennas; numerical methods; outdoor propagation; passive sensing; patch antennas; pattern reconfigurable antennas; periodic structures; phased array design; power harvesting; radar target identification; random media; reflectarray; reflectors antennas; remote sensing; rough surface scattering; subsurface sensing; target detection; time-domain techniques; transmit array antennas; vehicular antennas;