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About the Authors

John L. Volakis (Columbus, OH), editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Antenna Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition, obtained his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1982 (advisors: Leon Peters, Jr. and W.D. Burnside). From 1982-1984 he was with Rockwell International, Aircraft Division (now Boeing Phantom Works), Lakewood, CA and during 1978-1982 he was a Graduate Research Associate at the Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory. From January 2003 Dr. Volakis is the Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor of Engineering at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio and also serves as the Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory. Prior to moving to the Ohio State Univ, he was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (1984-2003). Dr. Volakis also served as the Director of the Radiation Laboratory from 1998 to 2000. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 1988-1992, and as the President of the the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2004. Dr. Volakis also chaired the 1993 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium and Radio Science Meeting, and co-chaired the same Symposium in 2003. He was a member of the AdCom for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society from 1995 to 1998 and serves/served as associate editor of several journals, including Associate Editor of Radio Science (1994-1997), J. Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Magazine, and the URSI Bulletin. Dr. Volakis was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1996, and is a member of Commissions B and E of URSI.

Chi-Chih Chen (Columbus, OH) received his BSEE in 1988 from the National Taiwan University, his MSEE in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1997, both graduate degrees from The Ohio State University. Following a Two-year postdoc he joined the faculty of the ElectroScience Laboratory as a Senior Research Associate in 1999. Dr. Chen is currently a Research Scientist at ESL and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of the Ohio State University. His research interests include ground penetrating radar, radar signal processing and wide bandwidth antenna development. Dr. Chen introduced several UWB, fully polarimetric dielectric antenna designs that have been applied to reflector feed, near-field probing and ground penetrating radar. He was the principal investigator on several research projects involving the detection and classification of buried pipes, landmine and unexploded ordnance. Dr. Chen also developed a new commercial X-band imaging radar for automobile backup sensing and blind spot elimination. Currently he is involved in small antenna developments from VHF to GPS.

Kyohei Fujimoto (Tsukuba, Japan) is a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and consulting professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University, China. He is also a research scientist at the Foundation for Advancement of International Science in Tsukuba. Dr. Fujimoto is author or co-author of several other books and an extensive list of book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers published over his 40-plus years in the field. A Life Fellow of IEEE, he is a former chair of the IEEE Tokyo Chapter and chair of its International Advisory Committee. Dr. Fujimoto holds a B.Eng. and a Dr.Eng. in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

1 Survey of Small Antenna Theory
2 Fundamental Limits and Guidelines for Miniaturizing Ultra-Wideband Antennas
3 Small Antenna Designs
4 Antenna Miniaturization via Slow Waves
5 Miniature Wideband Spiral Antennas
6 Negative Refractive Index (NRI) Metamaterial & Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) Based Antennas
7 Antenna Miniaturizing Using Magnetic Photonic & Degenerate Band Edge Crystals
8 Impedance Matching for Small Antennas Including Passive and Active Circuits
9 Antennas for RFID Systems