Antennas Course Syllabus
Introduction
- What is an antenna
- How does it function
- Scientific and technological background
- References
- Software packages
- Israeli industry
The radiation mechanism
- Electromagnetic waves
- Diffraction and interference
- Current and field sources
- Maxwell equations
- Near field and far field
- Antenna arrays
Main Parameters
- Power density radiated by an antenna
- Beamwidth
- Directivity and Gain
- Effective area and efficiency
- Rradiation pattern and beamwidth
- Aperture tapering and side lobes
- Polarization and polariation Loss
- Impedance matching
- Bandwidth
- Noise temperature
Wire Antennas
- Dipole
- Monopole
- Loop
- Helix
- PIFA and miniaturized antennas
- Yagi-Uda array
- Log-periodic array
- Effects of ground plane
Arrays
- Interference between 2 radiators
- Array factor
- Linear arrays
- Planar arrays
- Weighted arrays and side lobes
- Mutual coupling between elements
- Beam tilt and beam scanning
Aperture Antennas
- Duality between currents and fields
- Apertures
- Slots
- Open waveguides
- Horns
- Rreflectors
- Pparabolic dish
Printed Antennas
- Microstrip element
- Feeding techniques
- Linear and planar arrays
- Conformal arrays
- Beam shifting
- Efficiency and bandwidth
- Polarization
Measurements
- Radiation patterns
- Gain and directivity
- Coordinate systems
- Polarizations
- Antenna ranges
