EE 526 Antenna Theory

Instructor : Prof. Dr. Tuncay Birand

Room : D 204

Tel. : 210 2323

e-mail : tbirand@metu.edu.tr

Aim of the course :

To provide the necessary tools for the analysis and design of antenna systems for communicatiions, radar & direction finding applications.

Grading Policy:

Those not attending any one of the midterm examinations will not be allowed to take the final exam and they will redeive NA grade

Course Outline :

· Short review of radiation theory

· Review of field equivalence principles

· Formulation for the exterior radiation problem

· Geometrical optics approximatiom

· Current integration technique – physical optics

· Aperture integration technique

· Plane wave spectrum representation of electromagnetic fields

· Radiation from aperture type antennas

· Travelling wave antennas

· Array theory

References :

· Collin R. E. , Zucker F. J. ‘Antenna Theory; Pt. 1 &2 ‘, Mc. Graw Hill, 1969

· Collin R. E. ‘Antennas and Radiowave Propagation’, Mc. Graw Hill, 1985

· Wolff A. W. ‘Antenna Analysis’, John Wiley & Sons, 1966

· Clarke R. H. & Brown J. ‘Diffraction Theory and Antennas’ Ellis Harwood Series in Electrical Engineering, 1980

· Walter C. H., ‘Travelling Wave Antennas’, Dover Publications, 1965

· Bahl I. J., Bhartia P. ‘Microstrip Antennas’, Artech House, 1980

· Silver S. ‘Microwave Antenna Theory’, Dover Publications, 1955

· Lo Y. T., Lee S.W., ‘antenna Gandbook’, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988