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This dissertation presents a new technique to decouple the impedance bandwidth of a high-Q antenna from the information bandwidth in order to provide a wideband data-transmission. This technique controls the natural resonant frequencies of an electrically small antenna in a time-varying fashion such that ultra-fast frequency-shift keying modulation can be achieved regardless of the narrow bandwidth of the antenna. A major advantage of the proposed technique is that the high-Q property of a miniaturized antenna is a desirable design parameter rather than a limiting factor. Therefore, the antenna size can be reduced as much as required. It is shown that if the fundamental resonance of an antenna is shifted in time, the frequency of the near-zone fields which construct the reactive stored energy, changes momentarily and hence, the radiating fields track any instantaneous variation of the antenna fundamental resonance. 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