Note for Antenna and wave Propagation - AWP by Amiya Bhusana Sahoo

Defination, Types, Radiation Mechanism

Radiation pattern, Beam solid angle, Directivity, Gain, Input impedance, Polarization, Bandwidth, Radiation Resistance, Radiation Efficiency, Effective aperture, Antenna temperature, Reciprocity, Equivalence of Radiation patterns, Equivalence of Impedances

Vector potential, Solution of wave equation, retarded case

Hertizian dipole (Infinitesimal Dipole), Radiation Pattern, Vector effective length, Radiation resistance and Directivity calculation, Relation between Directivity and Effective Aperture

Numericals of Module-1

Short dipole, Radiation resistance and Directivity, Half wave Dipole,Monopole, Small loop antennas

Antemma Arrays

Magnetic Current and its fields, Uniqueness theorem, Field equivalence principle, Duality principle, Method of Images, Pattern properties, Slot antenna,Horn Antenna, Pyramidal Horn Antenna, Reflector Antenna-Flat reflector, Corner Reflector, Common curved reflector shapes, Lens Antenna

Long wire, V and Rhombic Antenna, Yagi-Uda Antenna, Turnstile Antenna, Helical Antenna- Axial mode helix, Normal mode helix, Biconical Antenna, Log periodic Dipole Array, Spiral Antenna, Microstrip Patch Antennas.

Radiation Pattern measurement, Gain and Directivity Measurements, Anechoic Chamber measurement.