This book presents the latest techniques for the design of antenna, focusing specifically on the microstrip antenna. The authors discuss antenna structure, defected ground, MIMO, and fractal design. The book provides the design of microstrip antenna in terms of latest applications and uses in areas like IoT and device-to-device communication. The book also provides the current methods and techniques used for the enhancement of the performance parameters of the microstrip antenna. Chapters enhance the knowledge and skills of students and researchers in the latest in the communications world like IoT, D2D, satellite, wearable devices etc. The authors discuss applications such as microwave imaging, medical implants, hyperthermia treatments, and wireless wellness monitoring and how a decrease in size of antenna help facilitate application potential.

• Provides the latest techniques used for the design of antenna in terms of its structure, defected ground, MIMO and fractal design;
• Outlines steps to resolve issues with designing antenna, including the latest design and design parameters for microstrip antenna;
• Presents the design of conformal and miniaturized antenna structures for various applications.

Provides the latest techniques used for the design of antenna in terms of its structure, defected ground, MIMO and fractal design Outlines steps to resolve issues with designing antenna, including the latest design and design parameters for microstrip antenna Presents the design of conformal and miniaturized antenna structures for various applications

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Dr. Praveen Kumar Malik is a professionally qualified and experienced person with extensive knowledge and skills in Antenna and Embedded System. He is working as Professor in the School of Electronics and Communication, Lovely Professional University, Punjab INDIA. He received B. Tech in 2000 from Nanded University, Maharastra, India, M.Tech (Gold Medal) in 2010 from Shobhit University, Meerut, India and Ph.D. in 2015 from Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India with specialization in Antenna Design. He has organized and conducted a number of workshops, summer internships and expert lectures for students as well as faculty. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 technical research papers published in leading journals and conferences from the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer etc. He has also published three edited/authored books with International/National Publishers. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech and guiding students leading to Ph.D. He is Associate Editor of many repute Journals. He was invited as Guest Editors/Editorial Board Members of many International Journals, invited for keynote Speaker in many International Conferences and invited as Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair in many International Conferences. He has filed three patents in the field of Antenna which is to be granted soon. 

Dr. B.T.P.Madhav was born in India, A.P, in 1981. He received the B.Sc, M.Sc, MBA, M.Tech degrees from Nagarjuna University, A.P, India in 2001, 2003, 2007, and 2009 respectively. He got his Ph.D in the field of antennas from K L University. Currently he is working as Professor and Associate Dean at KLU. He has published more than 452 papers in International, National journals and Conferences. Scopus and SCI publications of 292 with H-Index of 31 and total citations are more than 3089. He is reviewer for several international journals including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Taylor andFrancis and served as reviewer for several international conferences. His research interests include antennas, liquid crystals applications and wireless communications. He is a member of IEEE and life member of ISTE, IACSIT, IRACST, IAENG, UACEE and fellow of IAEME. Madhav received several awards like Outstanding reviewer from Elsevier, best researcher and distinguished researcher from K L University. Received best teacher award from KLU for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Excellent citation award from IJIES and outstanding faculty from Venus international. He is the editorial board member for 36 journals. He authored 15 books and three patents. He guided 2 Ph.D scholars for award, 2 PhD Scholars submitted thesis and 6 scholars pursuing PhD.

Prof. Geeta Kalkhambkar received a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2013 and M.Tech in Digital Electronics and Communication Systems in 2015. She started herPh.D. degree in Antennas and Wave Propagation at Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, Karnataka, India in the year 2016. Her research interest's includes Microstrip Antennas for IoT Applications, Microstrip Fractal Antennas for wireless communications, Finite Difference Time Domain Analysis for Microstrip Antennas, Characteristics Mode Analysis of Microstrip Antennas. She is an Assistant Professor at the department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering Mahagaon, Gadhinglaj, India. She has published two Books and seven research papers in the national and international journals. She has received best paper award at Recent Trends in Science and Technology [NC-RTST-2019]. She was the reviewer for the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks and Signal Processing (SNSP2019) held in National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan and Journal of Communications and Information Networks, she is Certified mentor for the Jugaadfunda Innovation LLP Maharashtra. She has completed three funded/sponsored projects.

Prof. Swetha Amit received her Ph.D in Electronics Engineering from Jain University, Bangalore in 2018. She did her M.E in Communication systems from R.V.College of Engineering,Bangalore securing Gold Medal in 2009 and B.E from Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology, chikmagalur in 2005. She is presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Dr.Swetha Amit research work is on Antenna Design, Wearable and Textile Antenna, SAR analysis and reduction in human body, Liquid antennas, Metamaterials, Fractals, Frequency selective structures for optimising antenna performance. She has over 35 publications in journals, conferences, patent, book chapters, in addition to guest lectures. She has two ongoing funded project from AICTE MODROBS and VGST K_FIST Level 2 for work on "Designing Wearable antenna for IoT dynamic connectivity" and "Centre of learning for Antenna and Microwave Lab" for an amount of 50Lakhs. She has various consultancy projects in designing antennas, RF Microstrip Filters. She has a Youtube Channel "Antenna's Enclave" which is focussed on discussing Antenna Design and optimisation in simple ways. She has won best paper award and appreciation awards in conference for papers related to Fractal Antenna

Inhalt
Introduction.- Overview and Introduction of Microstrip antenna.- Performance Analysis of Micro-strip antenna.- Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna design and uses.- Fractal and defected ground structure Microstrip antenna.- Micro-strip antenna in vehicular communication.- Importance and uses of Microstrip antenna in IoT.- Ultra-wide-band antenna design for wearable applications.- Microstrip antenna design for various and miscellaneous applications.- Conclusion. <p