Antenna Miniaturization and Adaptive Aperture Antennas

This Paper presents the pioneering contributions of Pedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand to antenna engineering, during their graduate programs at University of Manitoba. Their research covered two different aspects of antenna theory and design, but effort is made here to combine them under a unified topic of antenna “miniaturization and adaptive aperture antennas”. As such, the term miniaturization is meant to represent the miniaturization of the antenna geometry, for an isolated element, and total hardware miniaturization, for a large complex system of reflector antennas and phased arrays.