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.Content:Front Matter Preface to Second Edition Table of Contents1. Microstrip Antennas2. Rectangular Microstrip Antennas3. Circular Microstrip Antennas4. Broadband Microstrip Antennas5. Dual-Band Microstrip Antennas6. Microstrip Arrays7. Printed AntennasAppendicesIndex