Course Title: Antenna & Radio Wave Propagation

Course Number: ECEG-5152

ECTS Credit: 5

Module: Micro-waves and Antennas Contact Hours (per week): 6

Semester: IX

Course status: Compulsory

Lecturer: KATTASWAMY MERGU

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CHAPTER 1: Antennas Fundamental Parameters

3.6 Monopole Antennas

1.1 Introduction

3.7 Traveling Wave Antenna

1.2 Types of Antennas

3.8 Loop Antennas

1.3 Radiation

3.9 Circular Loops & Square Loops

Pattern

CHAPTER 4: Antenna Array and Synthesis

Power Density

4.1 Introduction

Intensity

4.2 Two Element Array

1.4 Beam Width and Efficiency

4.3 N-Element Linear Array

1.5 Directivity and Gain

Uniform Amplitude Array

1.6 Bandwidth and Polarization

Directivity

1.7 Input Impedance

4.4 Broadside Array

1.8 Antenna Radiation Efficiency

4.5 Continuous Sources

CHAPTER 2: Radiation Integrals and Auxiliary Potential 4.6 Fourier Transform Method
functions
4.7 Wood-Ward Lawson Method
2.1 Introduction
CHAPTER 5:- Radio Wave Propagation
2.2 The Vector Potential A for an Electric Current Source J
5.1. Introduction
2.3 Vector Potential F for a Magnetic Current Source M
5.2. Ground Wave Propagation
2.4 Electric and Magnetic Fields for Electric (J) and
5.3. Space Wave Propagation
Magnetic (M) Current Sources
2.5 Solution of the Inhomogeneous Vector Potential Wave
Equation
2.6 Far-Field Radiation
2.7 Duality Theorem
2.8 Reciprocity and Reaction Theorems

5.4. Line of Sight Propagation

5.7. Ionospheric Propagation
Assessment/Evaluation: Attendance (5%); Assignment
(20%), Chapter Quizzes (15%); Tests (20%); Final
Examination (40%)

CHAPTER 3: Linear and Loop Antennas

Textbook:
Matthew N. O. Sadiku, Elements of
Electromagnetics, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001

3.1 Introduction

References:

3.2 Linear Antenna

3.3 Hertzian Dipole
3.4 Standing Wave Antennas
3.5 Half Wave Dipole

Hayt, W.H., Engineering Electromagnetics, 4th ed.,

McGraw-Hill, 1981.
David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics,
3rd ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1999