Randy Bancroft

Microstrip and Printed Antenna Design, 4th Edition

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:29:00 GMT

This thoroughly updated fourth edition of the widely-used book Microstrip and Printed Antenna Design covers all types of printed microstrip antenna design, from rectangular to circular, broadband to dual band, and millimeter wave microstrip antenna to microstrip arrays. Microstrip series fed and grid arrays are related for use in millimeter-wave applications. This new edition is now structured in two parts: Part I covers traditional microstrip antenna geometries, then Part II provides an expanded treatment of printed antennas.

Microstrip and Printed Antenna Design, 4th Edition features innovative analysis of rectangular microstrip antenna efficiency, and surface wave phenomena when dielectric cover is introduced into the design. The book explores the relationship between dielectric loss from an optimum thickness dielectric cover, evaluates the losses experienced when placing a dielectric radome on a rectangular microstrip antenna, and shows how this phenomenon varies for different metals. The design of magneto-dielectric microstrip antennas is detailed with a design example and experimental data.

The author introduces a better design option for a single feed circularly polarized rectangular patch antenna, further expands on the design of series fed microstrip antenna arrays and addresses the increase of the impedance bandwidth of this design. He also explores series fed linearly polarized arrays along with a circularly polarized array at millimeter wave frequencies, as well as grid array antenna design for millimeter wave antennas. The author also examines the design of rectennas along with the essential microwave components required to produce a successful and elegant design.

Coverage of electrically small antenna design and analysis has been expanded for the new edition, and the design and analysis of an electrically small, loaded loop antenna which produces an electrically small design with a cartiod pattern are presented. The appendices have been enlarged to address the computation of surface impedance given surface roughness for the gradient model.

Written with commercial applications in mind, this comprehensive reference is authored by an experienced consulting engineer who has implemented all design concepts and technologies featured in the book. Practicing antenna engineers and designers in industry and research settings will find this a succinct and approachable handbook that provides useful, practical, simple, and manufacturable antenna designs.

Microstrip and Printed Antenna Design, 3rd Edition

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:28:48 GMT

This thoroughly updated third edition of this popular book covers all types of printed microstrip antenna design, from rectangular to circular, broadband and dual band, and millimeter wave microstrip antenna to microstrip arrays.

The book features new analysis of rectangular and circular microstrip antenna efficiency, and surface wave phenomena. Rectangular microstrip antenna cross polarization analysis and mitigation is expanded upon. Microstrip antenna array geometry options have been added to the text. The design of Vivaldi antennas has been revised and updated based on recent analysis. A chapter has been added which addresses design considerations for millimeter wave microstrip antennas and arrays. Sections addressing the design of shorted annular, patch-ring, corporate fed OMA, stripline series slot, inverted F, RFID Loop Coupler, CPW monopole, and characteristic mode antennas have been added. The appendices have been enlarged, and address PIM, efficiency computation, twin strip and parallel plate transmission line, the history of the decibel, return loss and reflection loss, new impedance matching methods, as well as a new appendix on baluns for printed antennas.

Written with commercial applications in mind and aimed at practicing engineers, this book covers printed antennas and their design from the perspective of a seasoned consulting engineer who has worked many years in the field and has implemented all design concepts and technologies featured in the book and is essential reading for antenna designers and engineers.

Microstrip and Printed Antenna Design, 2nd Edition

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:29:13 GMT

The approach in this book is historical and practical. It covers basic designs in more detail than other microstrip antenna books that tend to skip important electrical properties and implementation aspects of these types of antennas. Examples include: quarter-wave patch, quarter by quarter patch, detailed design method for rectangular circularly polarized patch, the use of the TM11 (linear and broadside CP), TM21 (monopole CP pattern) and TM02 (monopole linear) circular patch modes in designs, dual-band antenna designs which allow for independent dual-band frequencies. Limits on broadband matching are discussed. The appendix contains useful simple matching approaches, design details (gain, matching, sidelobes) of the little-studied omnidirectional microstrip antenna (OMA), limits and properties of common single and dual band Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA) antenna designs. The second edition has numerous additions to the earlier text which will make the concepts presented clearer. New cavity model analysis equations of circular polarization bandwidth, axial ratio bandwidth and power fraction bandwidth have been included. The section on omnidirectional microstrip antennas is expanded with further design options and analysis. This is also true of the section on Planar Inverted F (PIFA) antennas. The discovery and description of the fictious resonance mode of a microstrip slot antenna has been added to that section. Appendix A, on microstrip antenna substrates has been expanded to provide more detail on the types of substrate and their composition. This is often neglected in other texts. An appendix on elementary impedance matching techniques has been added as these methods have proven useful in my industrial work.