12.16.10 How Are Future Antennas Changing Wireless Communications?
Examines current trends including electronically steerable flat-panel antennas, metamaterials, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), software-defined antennas, integrated sensing and communications, and AI-assisted beam management. Concludes by showing that while antenna technology continues to evolve, the underlying electromagnetic principles remain unchanged.
- Why Are Antennas Changing?
- What Is Driving Antenna Development?
- What Are Electronically Steerable Antennas?
- What Are Flat-Panel Satellite Antennas?
- What Are Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces?
- Will Artificial Intelligence Control Antennas?
- How Will Antennas Change Mobile Networks?
- Are Antennas Becoming Part of Electronic Circuits?
- What About New Materials?
- Will Antennas Be Used for More Than Communication?
- Will the Fundamental Principles Change?
- Why Is Antenna Engineering More Important Than Ever?
- What Should You Remember?