Intro to Antennas – Part 1
Fundamental Antenna Parameters
- Far-field regions and radiation patterns
- Radiation intensity, directivity, gain and effective area
- Polarization
- Operating principle of antennas
- Equivalent networks
- Reciprocity
- Friis Transmission Equation, EIRP, and antenna factor
Lecture slides available here.
Intro to Antennas – Part 2
Basic Antenna Types
- Antennas over a ground plane
- Wire antennas
- Microstrip antennas
- Aperture antennas
- Reflector antennas
Lecture slides available here.
Intro to Antennas – Part 3
The topic of Part 3 is: Antenna Arrays
- Linear array
- Planar array
- Regular and irregular arrays
- Embedded array elements
Lecture slides available here.