ECE 61700 - Antennas: Design and Application
Course Details
Credits: 3
Areas of Specialization:
- Fields and Optics
Counts as:
Normally Offered:
Spring - odd years
Campus/Online:
On-campus and online
Requisites:
Prerequisites: EE 441, EE 604 Concurrent Prerequisites: EE 604
Catalog Description:
Electrically small antennas; Arrays; wire antennas and feeding arrangements; aperture antennas, such as slots, horns, and parabolic reflectors; antennas for multiple frequencies, including log-periodic and other frequency independent types; receiving antennas and the concept of antenna temperature; antenna measurements and evaluation
Required Text(s):
- Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design , Balanis , Harper & Row , 1982 , ISBN No. 9780060404581
Recommended Text(s):
None.
Lecture Outline:
| Lectures | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3 | Antenna history, review of field equations and methods of solutions, field of elemental current and superposition. |
| 6 | Small antennas: Impedance, gain efficiency, images effects of actual ground, transmission line loaded antennas, Microstrip Antennas. |
| 6 | Arrays: Array factor, polynomial representations, Fourier representation, Dolph-Chebyshev arrays, Tolerances, Signal processing arrays. |
| 5 | Wire antennas: Patterns and impedance of straight wires, bent and curved wires, feeding arrangements, impedance matching, baluns, mutual effects. |
| 3 | Theory of biconical and cylindrical antennas. |
| 6 | Digital Computation of Antenna Performance Parameters. |
| 5 | Aperture antennas: Slot antennas, slotted cylinders horns, circular aperture theory and practice. |
| 3 | Antennas for Multiple Frequencies: Spot band antennas, log-periodic dipoles and other frequency independent antennas. |
| 3 | Receiving antennas: Power transfer, effective area, noise considerations, antenna temperature, diversity. |
Assessment Method:
none