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  Course Information

  • Lecture: 18203 (Giza), Tue 1:00-3:50 pm
  • Tutorial: 18303 (Giza), Mon 11:00-1:50 pm
  • Grade Distribution

  Quizzes	15 points
  Assignments	10 points
  Project	10 points
  Laboratory	5 points
  Midterm	20 points
  Final	40 points

   

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  • Fall 2017 Calendar File
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  Introduction

  1. Why Study Antenna Engineering?
     • Electromagnetic Spectrum
     • Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
  2. This Course
     • Antennas?
     • Definitions of Antennas
     • Pictures of Antennas

  • Introduction File

  
  
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  Far Fields and Radiation Field Integrals

  • Maxwell's Equations
  • Vector and Scalar Potentials
  • Far Field Apprximation

  • Radiation Field Integrals File

  
  
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  Fundamental Parameters of Antennas

  • Radiation Pattern
    • Radiation Pattern Lobes
    • Isotropic, Directional, and Omnidirectional Pattern
    • Principal Patterns
    • Field Regions
    • Solid Angle
  • Radiation Power Density
  • Radiation Intensity
  • Beamwidth
  • Directivity
  • Beam Solid Angle (Beam Area)
  • Antenna Input Impedance and Radiation Efficiency
  • Antenna Gain

  Many of the defnitions of these terms are taken from the IEEE Std 145-2013.

  • Fundamental Parameters of Antennas File
  • Exercises 1 File
  • IEEE Standard for Definitions of Terms for Antennas File

  
  
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  Linear Wire Antennas and Small Circular Loop Antenna

  • Infinitesimal Dipole
  • Small Dipole
  • Finite Length Dipole
  • Linear Elements Near or on Infinite Conductor
  • Loop Antennas

  • Linear Wire and Small Circular Loop Antennas File
  • Exercise 2 File
  • Formula Sheet File

  
  
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  Aperture Antennas

  1. Balanced Maxwell's Equations
     • The Vector Potential for an Electric Current Source
     • The Vector Potential for a Magnetic Current Source
  2. Field Equivalence Principle: Huygen's Principle
  3. Image Theory
  4. Waveguide Aperture in an Infinite Ground Plane
     • Rectangular Aperture in an Infinite Conductor
     • Circular Aperture
  5. Aperture Effective Area and Aperture Efficiency
     • Aperture Effective Area
     • Aperture Efficiency

  • Aperture Antennas File
  • Exercises 3 File

  
  
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  Receiving Antennas

  • Reciprocity Theorem in Electromagetics
  • Vector Effective Length
  • Antenna Equivalent Areas
  • Friis Transmission Formula

  • Receiving Antennas File
  • Exercises 4 File

  
  
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  Sample of a Solved Midterm Exam

   

  • Sample of a Solved Midterm Exam File
  • Sample of a Midterm Exam File

  
  
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  Antenna Arrays

  • Array of Isotropic Radiators
    • Array Configurations
    • The Space Factor
  • The Pattern Multiplication Principle
  • Beam Steering
    • Beam Steering (Scanning) Techniques
    • Electronic Scanning
    • Frequency Scanning
  • Array Feeding Networks

  • Antenna Arrays File
  • Exercise 5 File

  
  
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  Assignments

  • Polar Plot

  • Monopole Simulation on CST Microwave Studio

  
  
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  Grades and Exam Solutions

   

  
  
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  Antenna Laboratory

  Antenna Laboratory

  • Lab manual File

  
  
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  Midterm and Sample Final Exam

   

  
  
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