DEPARTMENT OF ECE LESSON PLAN SUBJECT:ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION CLASS & SEM : III year A & 6th

AIM To enable the student to study the various types of antennas and wave propagation. OBJECTIVES To study radiation from a current element. To study antenna arrays To study aperture antennas To learn special antennas such as frequency independent and broad band antennas. To study radio wave propagation. SUBJECT CODE: EC2353

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E.C.Jordan and Balmain, "Electro Magnetic Waves and Radiating Systems", PHI, 1968, Reprint 2003. A.R.Harish, M.Sachidanada, Antennas and Wave propagation, Oxford University Press, 2007

REFERENCES 1. John D.Kraus and Ronalatory Marhefka, "Antennas", Tata McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2002. 2. R.E.Collins, 'Antennas and Radio Propagation ", McGraw-Hill, 1987. 3. Ballany , "Antenna Theory " , John Wiley & Sons, second edition , 2003. 4. G.S.N.Raju, Antenna Wave Propagation, Pearson Education, 2004. 5. W.L Stutzman and G.A. Thiele, Antenna analysis and design, John Wiley, 2000 THEORY: BOOKS TO BE SI. NO ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AND ANTENNA FUNDAMENTALS 1 Review of electromagnetic theory: Vector potential, Solution of wave equation, retarded case, I Hertzian dipole. Antenna characteristics: Radiation pattern, Beam solid angle, 4,911 T2 UNIT TOPIC PAGES REFERRED

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Directivity, Gain, Input impedance, 4 Polarization, Bandwidth, Reciprocity, Equivalence of Radiation patterns, Equivalence of Impedances, 5 Effective aperture, Vector effective length, Antenna temperature. Tutorial WIRE ANTENNAS AND ANTENNA ARRAYS 7 Wire antennas: Short dipole, Radiation resistance and II 8 9 10 Directivity Half wave Dipole, Monopole Small loop antennas Antenna Arrays: Linear Array 106,115 117 362 197 11 Pattern Multiplication, Twoelement Array Uniform Array, Polynomial representation 13 Array with non-uniform Excitation-Binomial Array Tutorial APERTURE ANTENNAS 15 Aperture Antennas: Magnetic Current and its fields, 16 III 17 Uniqueness theorem, Field equivalence principle Duality principle, Method of Images, Pattern properties 466 130 67,485 133 469,470 136,137, 143 18 Slot antenna 513 T1 T1 T2 T1 T2 T1 T2 372 227 T1 T2 365,359 199 212,220 T1 T2 T1 T2 T2 94,103, 68,73,80 T2 53,59,60 ,66,67 T2

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Horn Antenna 20 Reflector Antenna-Flat reflector, Corner Reflector. Common curved reflector

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shapes, Lens Antenna 22 Tutorial SPECIAL ANTENNAS AND ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS 24 IV 25 Special Antennas: Long wire, V and Rhombic Antenna Yagi-Uda Antenna, Turnstile Antenna Helical Antenna- Axial mode helix, Normal mode helix 27 Biconical Antenna 572 283 28 IV Log periodic Dipole Array Spiral Antenna, Micro strip Patch Antennas 30 Radiation measurement, Gain Pattern and 314,319 T2 606 285 295,298 T1 T2 T1 T2 T2 624 262,270 277 T1 T2 T2 251 T2

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Directivity Measurements 30 31 Anechoic Chamber measurement Tutorial RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION 32 V Calculation of Great Circle Distance between any two points on earth. en.wikip edia.org/ wiki/Gre atcircle_di Internet 310 T2

stance 33 Ground Wave Propagation, Free-space Propagation 34 Ground waves, Reflection, Diffraction, in Surface Wave complex 334,339, 341,344 35 Tropospheric Propagation, Tropospheric Scatter 36 Ionospheric propagation: 657,663 348,360 667,682 364,375 T1 T2 T1 T2 T2 644,649, 654 T1 628 332,333 T1

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Structure of ionosphere, Sky waves 37 Electrical ionosphereVirtual properties skip height, of

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frequency, MUF. 38 Effects of earths magnetic fields, Whistlers. Faraday rotation, 687,693, 694 378,379 T2 T1

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