Antenna Theory and Applications

Preface

This book is derived from a 24-contact-hour, elective course in antenna theory given at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. The course is intended for fourth-year students, having a BSc degree in electrical engineering. The students are presumed to have a knowledge of electromagnetic theory and vector analysis.

The original intention in writing this book was to provide a compact, English-language text dealing with the basics of antennas that can be taught in a limited and possibly further shrinking time span. It would have been an alternative to many of the antenna textbooks around that provide too much material for this course. Upon completing the first manuscript, it appeared to be just over one hundred pages, which is too short to put into print. Therefore it was decided to complement the text with examples and design studies of antennas using a commercially distributed full-wave analysis software suite. The choice made was the CST Microwave Studio®, the reason being the familiarity of the author with this software suite. The examples and design studies are, however, described in such a way that any other full-wave analysis software suite that the reader has access to may be used instead. In the appropriate chapters, the theory derived will be used to assess the dimensions of an initial, realistic (i.e. non-ideal) antenna, which will be fine-tuned to the desired characteristics using the full-wave analysis software suite.

The theoretical parts of the ...