124 variants of characteristic modes 7 13 characteristic modes in antenna engineering 10 131 pioneering cm studies 1965 1990 12 132 recent cm developments 1991 2014 13 14 characteristic modes in scattering computation 19 15 outline of this book 20 references 22 2 characteristic mode theory for pec bodies 37. Characteristic modes theory and applications in antenna engineering will help antenna researchers engineers and students find new solutions for their antenna design challenges yikai chen is a research scientist of temasek laboratories at national university of singapore tlnus singapore his current research interests focus on the characteristic mode theory and its applications in . Describes how to systematically implement various characteristic mode cm theories into designs of practical antenna systems this book examines both theoretical developments of characteristic modes cms and practical developments of cm based methodologies for a variety of critical antenna designs the book is divided into six chapters. This book examines theoretical developments and characteristic mode cm based methodology developments for a variety of critical antenna designs the book is divided into 6 chapters chapter 1