046256 – Antennas and Radiation

Prerequisites: Waves & Distributed Systems 044148

 

Introduction:

Radiation from impressed sources. Basic notions. Radiation pattern, equivalent network, gain, effective aperture, self and mutual impedances, transmission loss, noise tempreture reciprocity. Receiving antennas. Finite and infinite arrays. Signal processing by receiving antennas. Broadband antennas. Measurment methods. Numerical methods for analysis and design.