Applied Electromagnetism in Mobile Communications

Nowadays information systems are known to be attractive from many aspects. For instance, accessing the web during travelling by train or during a normal flight is not an issue any more. This application requires mobile antennas for the transmission of broadband data streaming. In this book a new antenna operating in Ku frequency band is presented. It is a dielectric resonator antenna which is used as a radiating element of a TX phased array of active integrated antennas. Another aspect of information systems regards the development of wearable devices with a great impact in the wireless body centric area, in military and medical applications. These systems consist in wireless TX/RX devices. Their efficiency and performances can be improved by a proper characterization of the communication channel. In this book an analysis of space diversity performance for on body communication channels is addressed. Also, a new low profile wearable antenna is presented. Since all these systems use electromagnetic fields at different frequencies and intensities, a study of their possible effects at cellular level is also provided.

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Anda Raluca Guraliuc received the B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2003 and 2005 respectively. In 2008 she received the PhD degree in Applied Electromagnetism from the University of Pisa, Italy. Since then, she works as a research associate within the Microwave and Radiation Laboratory, University of Pisa.