EE 541 Antennas and Radiation Systems
- 1994-95 Catalog Data: 3 credits
- Basic antenna analysis and design. Fundamental antenna concepts and
radiation integrals. Study of wire antennas, aperture antennas, arrays,
reflectors and broadband antennas. Same as
EE 491 with differentiated assignments for graduate students.
- Textbooks:
- Antenna Theory and Design, Warren L. Stutzman and Gary A. Thiele, John Wiley &
Sons, 1981.
- Reference:
- None.
- Coordinator:
- Gary Hancock, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Goals:
- To introduce students to microwave antennas and analysis techniques. The magnetic
vector potential is developed and applied to the analysis of a variety of antenna structures.
A blend of analysis and practical applications should result in the student being able to
design an assortment of antennas by the end of the class. Homework assignments and
class projects include tasks in which engineering design trade-offs must be made. The
course culminates in a final project which includes design, analysis, fabrication and test
of an antenna.
- Prerequisites by topic:
- Vectors and phasors
- Maxwell's equations and plane wave propagation
- Transmission line and waveguide theory
- Topics:
- Antenna Fundamentals and Definitions (Antenna Parameters and Introduction of the magnetic
vector potential analysis technique). (3 classes)
- Antenna and Wave Polarization and Link Analysis. (2 classes)
- Simple Radiating Systems (Dipoles and Loops). (2 classes)
- Array of Point Sources and Line Sources. (4 classes)
- Input impedance to the finite length dipole, feeding considerations, the folded dipole and traveling
wave wire antennas. (3 classes)
- Broadband Antennas (Helices, Spirals and Log-periodics). (4 classes)
- Aperture Antennas (Electric Vector Potential, Horn Antennas and Parabolic Reflectors). (6 classes)
- Conformal Arrays and Microstrip Antennas. (4 classes)
- Exams. (2 classes)
- Project:
- In addition to homework assignments and in-class exams this course includes a semester design
project. This project involves the design (to specifications), analysis, fabrication and test of a
microwave antenna such as a pyramidal horn or microstrip array..
- Prepared by:
- Russell P. Jedlicka
- Date: April 26, 1994