ECE 4990/6990 Antennas

Course Information and Resources:

All course materials (zip file of all materials) ece4990all_files.zip (5.9 MB)

• Course Textbook - Constantine A. Balanis, Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design, 2nd. Ed., Wiley, 1997, ISBN 0-471-59268-4

• Syllabus and Grading Policy ece4990syllabus.pdf (85 KB)

• Course Coverage

  • Chapter 1 - Antennas
  • Chapter 2 - Fundamental Parameters of Antennas
  • Chapter 3 - Radiation Integrals and Auxiliary Potential Functions
  • Chapter 4 - Linear Wire Antennas
  • Chapter 5 - Loop Antennas
  • Chapter 6 - Arrays
  • Chapter 9 - Broadband Dipoles
  • Chapter 10 - Traveling Wave Antennas
  • Chapter 11 - Log-Periodic Antennas
  • Chapter 12 - Aperture Antennas
  • Chapter 13 - Horn Antennas

• Course Notes

  • Chapter 1 ece4990notes1.pdf (39 KB)
    Introduction / Antenna types / Radiation
  • Chapter 2 ece4990notes2.pdf (1280 KB)
    Antenna patterns / Average power / Radiation intensity / Directivity / Numerical evaluation of directivity / Gain / Efficiency / Impedance / Loss resistance / Transmission lines / Transmit-Receive systems / Polarization / Equivalent areas / Effective aperture / Friis transmission equation / Radar systems / Radar cross-section
  • Chapter 3 ece4990notes3.pdf (470 KB)
    Radiated fields / Use of potential fucntions / Far fields / Duality / Reciprocity
  • Chapter 4 ece4990notes4.pdf (1613 KB)
    Wire antennas / Infinitesimal dipole / Poynting's theorem / Total power / Radiation resistance / Short dipole / Center-fed dipole / Half-wave dipole / Image theory / Antennas over ground / Monopole
  • Chapter 5 ece4990notes5.pdf (310 KB)
    Small loop antenna / Dual sources / Loop characteristics
  • Chapter 6 ece4990notes6.pdf (958 KB)
    Antenna arrays / Broadside and endfire arrays / Hansen-Woodyard array / Binomial arrays / Dolph-Chebyshev array
  • Chapter 9 ece4990notes9.pdf (92 KB)
    Folded dipole
  • Chapter 10, 11 ece4990notes10.pdf (695 KB)
    Traveling wave antennas / Terminations / Vee antenna / Rhombic antenna / Yagi-Uda arrays / Log-Periodic antenna
  • Chapter 12, 13 ece4990notes12.pdf (242 KB)
    Aperture antennas / Horn antennas
  • Chapter 15 ece4990notes15.pdf (120 KB)
    Reflector antennas

• Quiz Outlines

  • Quiz #1 outline ece4990quiz1outline.pdf (6 KB)
  • Quiz #2 outline ece4990quiz2outline.pdf (5 KB)
  • Quiz #3 outline ece4990quiz3outline.pdf (5 KB)

• Antenna Software Resources

  • Directivity analysis [Problem 2.21(b.)] (executable file) directiv.exe (129 KB)
  • Yagi-Uda array analysis (executable file) yagi-uda.exe (184 KB)
  • Log-Periodic antenna analysis (executable file) log-perd.exe (237 KB)
  • Log-Periodic software documentation log-perd.doc (45 KB)
  • Generator/Transmission Line/Load MATLAB m-file tline.m (2 KB)

• Answers to Homework Problems

  • Chapter 2 ece4990ch2hw.pdf (59 KB)
  • Chapter 4 ece4990ch4hw.pdf (71 KB)
  • Chapter 5 ece4990ch5hw.pdf (44 KB)
  • Chapter 6 ece4990ch6hw.pdf (41 KB)
  • Chapters 9-13 ece4990ch9-13hw.pdf (66 KB)