Antenna and Em Modeling with MATLAB Antenna Toolbox (Hardcover, 2)

Preface and Text Organization ix

List of Notations xiii

About the Companion Website xv

1 Antenna Circuit Model. Antenna Matching. Antenna Bandwidth 1

Section 1 Lumped Circuit Model of an Antenna. Antenna Input Impedance 1

Section 2 Antenna with Transmission Line. Antenna Reflection Coefficient. Antenna Matching. VSWR 18

2 Receiving Antenna: Received Voltage, Power, and Transmission Coefficient 31

Section 1 Analytical Model for the Receiving Antenna 31

Section 2 Model of a Two-Port Network for TX/RX Antennas 44

3 Antenna Radiation 55

Section 1 Maxwell Equations and Boundary Conditions 55

Section 2 Solution for Maxwell’s Equations in Terms of Electric and Magnetic Potentials 63

Section 3 Antenna Radiation 71

Section 4 Antenna Directivity and Gain 84

4 Antenna Balun. Antenna Reflector. Method of Images 101

Section 1 Antenna Balun 101

Section 2 Antenna Reflector 116

5 Dipole Antenna Family: Broadband Antennas that Operate as Dipoles at Low Frequencies 135

Section 1 Broadband Dipoles and Monopoles 135

Section 2 Biconical, Wide Blade, and Vivaldi Antennas 141

6 Loop Antennas 155

Section 1 Loop Antenna vs. Dipole Antenna 155

7 Small Antennas 171

Section 1 Fundamental Limits on Antenna Bandwidth 171

Section 2 Practical Antenna Matching and Tuning for a Predefined (50 Ω) Impedance 185

8 Patch and PIFA Antennas 197

Section 1 Patch Antennas 197

Section 2 Planar Inverted F (PIFA) Antenna. Bandwidth Estimations 219

9 Traveling Wave Antennas 233

Section 1 Long Wire Antenna and Yagi-Uda Antenna 233

Section 2 Helical and Spiral Antennas 241

10 Antenna Designer Including Circularly Polarized Antennas 251

Section 1 Fast Analysis and Design of Individual Antennas 251

Section 2 Meaning of Circular Polarization and Proper Antenna Orientation 259

11 Antenna Arrays 271

Section 1 Array Types. Array Factor. Concept of a Scanning Array 271

Section 2 Linear Arrays 287

Section 3 Planar Arrays 303

Index 317