Internet of Things Enabled Antennas for Biomedical Devices and Systems: Impact, Challenges and Applications

這本書包含了生物醫學和通訊整合的最新研究。它討論了物聯網應用於生物醫學的製造和測試結果。該書專注於平面天線設計領域的最新進展，以及它們在太空通訊、移動通訊、無線通訊和可穿戴應用中的應用。平面天線也被應用於微波成像、醫療植入物、高溫療法和無線健康監測等醫療應用中。本書介紹了平面天線設計的概念、方法和技術，以提升物聯網和設備間通訊的性能參數和應用。它提供了用於天線設計的最新技術，包括結構、缺陷地面、MIMO和分形設計。本書還解決了設計天線時的特定問題步驟，以及如何為各種應用設計符合要求和微型化的天線結構。

Praveen Kumar Malik is a Professor at the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. with a specialization in wireless communication and antenna design. He has over 40 research papers and three edited/authored books published to his credit. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech. and guiding students leading to Ph.D. His current interest areas are microstrip antenna design, MIMO, vehicular communication, and IoT. He has been a Guest Editor/Editorial Board Member of many international journals and a Keynote Speaker at many international conferences and invited as a Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair at many international conferences. He has been granted two design patents, and a few are in the pipeline.

Dr. Prasad Shastry, FIETE, Sr Member IEEE, Member Sigma Xi, is a Professor of microwave and wireless engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Before joining Bradley University, he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1982-91). He has over 40 years of experience teaching from the Undergraduate to Ph.D. levels in addition to over 49 years of R&D experience.

At Bradley University, he developed the curriculum, laboratories, and an active research program in the area of microwave and wireless engineering. He established a National Science Foundation-supported advanced microwave engineering laboratory for testing MMICs, an anechoic chamber for antenna measurements, and a microwave integrated circuit fabrication facility. His areas of research include wideband distributed amplifiers (DA), DA architecture-based circuits, reconfigurable circuits and antennas as well as wideband and multi-band antennas, wireless power transfer, and ambient RF energy harvesting. He has made significant contributions in his area of expertise in Industry-University collaborative projects. He has served as director of RF development at Validus Technologies (2006-2014) and advised Endotronix, Inc from its start-up phase.

He has a Ph.D. degree in microwave engineering from IIT-Bombay (1980). During his doctoral research, he invented the widely-used Linearly Tapered Slotline Antenna (LTSA). He has M.Tech (Microwave and Radar Engineering) degree from IIT-Kharagpur and B.E (Electronics) degree from UVCE, Bangalore University. He received Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1982, where he made pioneering research contributions to the area of Wideband Distributed Amplifiers. He served as a senior scientist at LRDE, Bangalore (1980-82) and at DRDL, Hyderabad (1974-75).

Dr. Shastry is the author/co-author of over a hundred manuscripts and publications. He holds two US patents on Electronically Tunable Active Duplexers. He has supervised numerous post-graduate and undergraduate student projects over 40 years. He has served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions and other international journals, international conferences, and books as well as on expert review panels of the National Science Foundation, U.S.A.

Praveen Kumar Malik是印度旁遮普邦法格瓦拉Lovely Professional大學電子與電氣工程學院的教授。他的博士學位專攻無線通信和天線設計。他已發表了超過40篇研究論文和三本編輯/撰寫的書籍。他指導了許多學生獲得碩士和博士學位。他目前的研究興趣包括微帶天線設計、MIMO、車載通信和物聯網。他曾擔任多個國際期刊的客座編輯/編輯委員會成員，並在多個國際會議上擔任主題演講嘉賓，並應邀擔任多個國際會議的程序主席、出版主席、宣傳主席和分會主席。他已獲得兩項設計專利，還有幾項正在進行中。

Dr. Prasad Shastry是伊利諾州皮奧里亞布拉德利大學電氣與計算機工程系的微波和無線工程學教授。在加入布拉德利大學之前，他曾在威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校工作（1982-1991年）。他在本科到博士教學方面擁有超過40年的經驗，並擁有超過49年的研發經驗。

在布拉德利大學，他在微波和無線工程領域開發了課程、實驗室和積極的研究計劃。他建立了一個由國家科學基金會支持的先進微波工程實驗室，用於測試MMIC，一個用於天線測量的消聲室，以及一個微波集成電路製造設施。他的研究領域包括寬頻分佈式放大器（DA）、基於DA架構的電路、可重構電路和天線，以及寬頻和多頻段天線、無線電能傳輸和環境射頻能量收集。他在行業-大學合作項目中在自己的專業領域做出了重要貢獻。他曾擔任Validus Technologies的射頻開發主管（2006-2014年），並在Endotronix公司的初創階段提供了建議。

他在印度理工學院孟買分校獲得微波工程博士學位（1980年）。在他的博士研究期間，他發明了廣泛使用的線性錐形槽線天線（LTSA）。他在印度理工學院卡拉格普爾分校獲得微波和雷達工程碩士學位，並在班加羅爾大學UVCE獲得電子學學士學位。他於1982年在威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校獲得博士後研究員職位，並在那裡對寬頻分佈式放大器領域進行了開創性的研究貢獻。他曾在LRDE（1980-1982年）和DRDL（1974-1975年）擔任高級科學家。

Shastry博士是超過一百篇論文和出版物的作者/合著者。他擁有兩項關於電子可調式主動分頻器的美國專利。他在40年的時間裡指導了無數的研究生和本科生項目。他曾擔任IEEE Transactions和其他國際期刊、國際會議和書籍的審稿人，並擔任美國國家科學基金會的專家評審小組成員。