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VE531 – Antenna Theories and Design


Instructors:

N/A

Credits: 3 credits

Pre-requisites: VE530

Description:

Topics to cover are theory of transmitting and receiving antennas, reciprocity, wire antennas: dipoles, loops and traveling-wave antennas, analysis and synthesis of linear arrays, phased arrays, input impedance and method of moments, mutual impedance, aperture antennas: slot, Babinet’s principle, microstrip antennas, horns, reflector and lens antennas.

Course Topics:

Introduction, definitions,

EM radiation, Friis and radar Equations

Basic antenna elements

Antenna arrays

Antenna

pattern

Aperture antennas

Integral Equations, Method of Moments, self and mutual impedance

Practical antennas