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EECE.4060 Antenna Theory and Design (Formerly 16.462/EECE.4620)

Id: 003233 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

An introduction to properties of individual antennas and arrays of antennas. Retarded potentials, dipoles of arbitrary length, radiation pattern, gain, directivity, radiation resistance. The loop antenna. Effects of the earth. Reciprocity, receiving antennas, effective length and area. Moment methods. Arrays: collinear, broadside, endfire. Array synthesis. Mutual coupling. Log-periodic and Yagi arrays. Radiation from apertures: the waveguide horn antenna, parabolic dish. Antenna noise temperature. Numerical software packages. A design project is required in the course.

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: EECE.4610 Emag Theory II.

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