A selection of my papers and articles
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 These are listed with the most recent first
You are welcome to link to this page, but please don't reproduce papers without permission

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Practical application of small antennas in hardware platforms, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 13, No. 11, Sep. 2019, pp. 1883 – 1888. This is a paper based on an earlier talk (81, below).

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Multiband Hybrid loop-notch antennas, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 13, No.10, Aug. 2019, pp. 1620 – 1625. This is  an extended version of (80) below.

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The art and science of antennas, Cambridge Wireless Journal, Spring 2018, pp 28-33 (A useful read for the non-specialist)

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Practical applications of small antennas in hardware platforms, LAPC 2017, Loughborough, UK, 13-14 Nov. 2017, (Invited talk).

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Multiband hybrid loop-notch antennas, LAPC 2017, Loughborough, UK, 13-14 Nov. 2017.

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Making your point ... making your mark: Presentation design for us all. I've used this in several companies and it should be of interest to students and anyone who wants to make more effective presentations. First published on this website Jan 2015.

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Mobile GNSS trerminal antennas, Chapter 8 of Antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems, with Xiaodong Chen, Clive Parini, Yuan Yao and Masood Ur Rehman, John Wiley, 2012.

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Handset and consumer platform RF design and antennas, Contribution to Spectral Efficiency discussion at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Feb 2011.

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Handset antennas: the next five years, LAPC 2010, Loughborough, UK, Nov 8-9, 2010, Invited paper.
Presentation is here. A video of this can be viewed at at http://tv.theiet.org/technology/electronics/10018.cfm

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MIMO for consumer platforms and handsets, Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network, Reading, UK, September 2010.

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Tuneable antennas for UHF-TV reception, IET Colloquium on Adaptable and Tunable Antenna Technology for Handsets and Mobile Computing Products, 22 October 2009, London, with D Iellici and V K Nahar.

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Small Antennas for the Reception of Future Mobile Television Services International Workshop on Antenna Technology, IWAT 09, Santa Barbara, CA, March 2-4, 2009.

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Base Station Antennas for Mobile Radio Systems Chapter in Antennas for Fixed Base-stations in Wireless Communications, Z N Chen & K M Luk (Editors), McGraw-Hill, 2009, ISBN 0071612882 / 9780071612883.

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Selling our research ideas, Invited keynote talk, Research Open Day, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, April 2008.

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Balanced Antennas for GPS and Gallileo Receivers LAPC 2007, 2-3 Apr 2007, pp 321-324,
DOI 10.1109/LAPC.2007.368494.

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Embedding antennas in user equipments IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, WCNC 2007, Hong Kong, March 11-15 2007, pp 2334-2337, DOI 10.1109/WCNC.2007.436.

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Dual Band Dielectric Antenna for WLAN Applications (with Z Wang, S Kamalraj, C C Chiau, X Chen and S P Kingsley, IWAT 2007, pp 151-154, DIO 10.1109/IWAT.2007.370100.

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HF Antennas and VHF/UHF Antennas for Communications and Broadcasting Chapters in Antenna Engineering Handbook (4th Edition), John Volakis (Editor), McGraw-Hill, 2007, ISBN 0071475745 / 9780071475747.

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Handset Antennas Chapter 2 of Antennas for Portable Devices, Zhi Ning Chen (Editor), John Wiley, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-03073-8.

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A high-performance five-band handset antenna using a dielectric feed (with, D Iellici and R Schlub), International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP 2006), Singapore, Nov 2006.

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Radio and antenn integration for mobile platforms (with S P Kingsley, J M Ide, D Iellici and S G O'Keefe), Antenna Systems Conference, Washington DC, Sep 2006.

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Design and Testing of a Compact `Semi-Smart' Base Station Antenna in Cellular Networks (with Y Alfadhl , X Chen and C Parini, C, IEEE IWAT '07: Small and Smart Antennas Metamaterials and Applications, pp. 451 - 454, Y Alfadhl,
DOI: 10.1109/IWAT.2007.370171 ,

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Development of Semi-smart antenna technology (with C Parini, X Chen, J Bigham, Y Alfadhl, L Samuel and L Ho). Ofcom Workshop Presentation and Final Report, Ofcom (UK) Contract No 830000081, June 2006.

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Improving the RF performance of clamshell handsets, LAPC'06, Loughborough University, April 11-12 2006.

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A miniature broadband dielectric resonator antenna operating at 2.4GHz (with Z Wang,  C C Chiau, X Chen,  and S P Kingsley, IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, IWAT 2006, pp 104-107.

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A multi-band hybrid balanced antenna (with S P Kingsley, J M Ide, S A Saario, R W Schlub and S G O'Keefe), IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, IWAT 2006.

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Improving the performance of clamshell handsets, IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, IWAT 2006, New York.

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Broadband dielectricc loaded trapezoidal planar antenna (with Z Wang, CC Chiau, X Chen, SP Kingsley and S C Puckey, Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Dec 4-7 2005, DOI 10.1109/APMC.2005.1606879

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Optimisation of a broadband dielectric antenna (with Z Wang,  C C Chiau, X Chen,  S P Kingsley, and S C Puckey) LAPC, Loughborough University, April 4-6 2005.

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Antennas for MIMO systems LAPC'05, Loughborough University, April 4-6 2005. *********

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Study and optimisation of a broadband dielectric antenna (with Z Wang. C C Chiau, X Chen, S P Kingsley, S C Puckey and J R Thorpe) IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, IWAT 2005, pp 125-128. DOI 10.1109.IWAT.2005.1461024.

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The use of baluns for measurements on antennas mounted on small groundplanes (with Seppo Saario), IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, IWAT 2005, pp 266-269
DOI 10.1109/IWAT.2005.1461066.

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RADHAZ... The unmentionable hazard?  Electronics World, Oct 2004, available from http://www.softcopy.co.uk/electronicsworld/ (then enter search term: RADHAZ).  See my links for a RADHAZ bibliography.

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Characterization of a new, low cost composite substrate material (with Xiangyi Fang, David Linton,
Chris Walker, Mark Lee and Ivana Partridge), 34th European Microwave Conference, Amsterdam, 10-15 Oct 2004, pp 1221-1224.

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Advancements in Antennas: The development of dielectric antenna technology (with S P Kingsley, D Iellici, J W Kingsley, S G O'Keefe and T J Palmer), Antenna Systems 2003, Denver CO, Oct 8/9 2003. (Keynote paper, co-presented with T. Palmer).

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The operation and design of baluns  (Published on this website, 2003, revised ad extended Oct 2006 and Jan 2015).
Although the original paper is now some years old, this is still the most frequently downloaded paper on this website (Jan 2015).

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The protection of radio installations against damage by lightning (Published on this website, 2003 extended and updated 2015)

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Additional antenna technology for 3G network optimisation Originally published in World Markets Research Centre: Business Briefing 2003.

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Shaping the elevation radiation pattern of base station antennas  (Published on this website, 2002).

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Base Station Antennas for Third-generation Networks  Originally published in World Markets Research Centre: Business Briefing 2002.

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The effect of imperfect antenna cross-polar performance on the diversity gain of a dual-polarized receiving system Originally published in Microwave Journal  April 2000, Volume 43, No4, pp 84-94.

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Antenna options for 3G systems in the 2GHz band  Base Station, Earth Station, Jan/Feb 2000, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ).

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Polarization diversity antennas for compact base stations   Microwave Journal, January 2000, Volume 43,
No 1, pp 76-88. (You  can access this paper free on the  MWJ site after registering.)

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Antennas for dual-band networks  Proceedings of Dual Band Network Conference, 25-26 Oct 1999, IIR Ltd, London, 1999.

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Base Station Antenna Design  Wireless Design & Development, (USA), June 1996

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Antenna Engineering Handbook  Chapter 24 : VHF & UHF Communications Antennas, Editor RC Johnson, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., Third Edition, New York 1993.

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Antenna Design in the Band 1-2GHz  (IEE Colloquium on Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Antennas, 29 Nov 1990, pp. 3/1 -3/6.

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Choosing and Siting Antennas for Telepoint Services
International Broadcasting Systems & Operation, Apr 1991, pp 34-37.

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Antenna design in the frequency band 1-2GHz Electronics & Communications, IEE, 1991.

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Antenna design for mobile radio systems 11th Conference for Telecommunications Managers and Engineers of the Fuel and Power Industries, JRC, Harrogate, 9-11 September 1991.

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Choosing and Siting Antennas for Telepoint Services  Lines of Communication, September 1990.

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A New Generation of Lightweight Transportable Antennas  Proceedings of the Nordic Shortwave Conference, Farö, Sweden, August 15 - 17, 1989, pp 163-171; ISBN 91-971153-20.

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Antennas for New Mobile Radio Services  Single Market Communications Review, Vol 1, No 2, Jul 1989.

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A Wideband Transportable Antenna for NVIS Links (with B R Phillips) 4^th International Conference on HF Radio Systems and Techniques, 11-14 April 1988, pp 156-158, IEE Conference Publication No 284.

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An HF Direction Finding and Null Steering System Employing a Four-element Circular Array (with , M Cvetkovic, DEN Davies and HD Griffiths) International Conference on HF Radio Systems & Techniques,
London, 1988, IEE Conference Publication No 284, pp 221-225.

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Broadband antennas for VHF/UHF Radio Relay Systems  5^th International Conference on Antennas & Propagation (ICAP 87); IEE Conference Publication No 274, Part 1, pp 277-280.

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Achieving Coverage Objectives   Global Communications, 4th Quarter 1985. (No longer available)

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Achieving the Coverage  Proceedings of the Conference of the Mobile Radio Users Association, 27 - 28 March 1985, Wadham College, Oxford, UK.

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An Experimental HF Circular Array with Direction-Finding and Null-Steering Capabilities (with DEN Davies & N Karavassilis) International Conference on Antennas & Propagation, Warwick UK, 1985.

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An Active Circular HF Array (with DEN Davies & N Karavassilis) International Conference on HF Systems & Techniques, London 1985. IEE Conference Publication No 245, pp 99-101.

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Noise & Intermodulation in a Practical Active Antenna System IEE Conference Publication 162.

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VHF & UHF Communications Antennas, Chapter 24 of Antenna Engineering Handbook, Editors H Jasik/RC Johnson, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., Second Edition, New York 1984. (See 34 above for current edition.)

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Future Trends in Defence Antenna Technology  Islamic Defence Review, Vol 8, No 1, pp 28-31.

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Antennas for Tactical Radio Systems  Communications International, Vol 9, No 10, Oct 1982.

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New Antennas for the 1.5GHz Band  IEE Electronics & Power, June 1982, pp 451-3.

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Antenna Reliability : The Non-Optional Extra  CATC Electronics News, Vol 20, No 2, Summer 1981, pp 10-12.

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Aerial Overview: Part 2: MF Antenna Practicalities  International Broadcasting Systems & Operation.

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Aerial Overview: Part 1: MF Antenna Options  International Broadcasting Systems & Operation, Feb 1981,
pp 12-14.

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MF Antennas for the Eighties International Broadcast Engineer, Jan 1981, pp 42-44.

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The Right Antenna for the Job  Communications International, March 1980.

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A New High-performance HF Receiving Array   International Conference on Antennas & Propagation,
London, 1978. IEE Conference Publication No 169, Part 1, pp 80-82.

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Loop Antennas for HF Reception  Communications International, Jul/Aug 1975, pp 20-23.

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Loop Antennas for HF Reception  Communications '74 Conference, Brighton, UK, June 5 1974, Paper 5.3. Microwave Exhibitions & Publishers Ltd., London.

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Antenna Design  Electronics Weekly, May 21st, 1975.

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Lower Cost Antennas for the Higher Microwave Bands  Conference Proceedings, Microwave ‘73.
19 - 21 June 1973, pp 53-57, Microwave Exhibitions & Publishers Ltd., London.

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A Receiving Aerial for a Long Distance VHF Television Link   International Broadcasting Convention, London 1968, IEE Conference Publication No 46, Part 1, pp 5.7.1-5.7.4.

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An Improved Method of Measuring Aerial Gain  Industrial Electronics, July 1964, pp 345-7 (with B Sykes).

If you have a copy of any of the papers listed above which are not currently on this site, please let me know.