Automative Antenna Design and Applications

The steady evolution of wireless communication technologies continues to pave the way for the implementation of innovative services and devices used in modern vehicles. These include analog and digital audio broadcasting radio, satellite radio and GPS systems, cellular phones, and short range communication devices. Such applications require the modern car to use multiple antennas operating in different frequency ranges.
Automotive Antenna Design and Applications thoroughly examines traditional and new advanced automotive antennas, including the specific principles, designs, and techniques used to reduce antenna dimensions without significant degradation of communication quality. The contents of this book are based on cutting-edge data collected from numerous technical papers, patents, and patent applications. It presents an overview of many commercially available automotive antennas and covers features that have become standard in automotive applications, such as printed-on car glass antennas, reduced-size helical antennas, multiband compact, printed-on dielectric and patch designs in a single package.