CU4004 Advanced Antenna Design Syllabus:
CU4004 Advanced Antenna Design Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To understand the antenna radiation characteristics and arrays.
To enhance the student knowledge in the area of various antenna design.
To enhance the student knowledge in the area of antenna for practical applications.
UNIT I FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
Physical concept of radiation, Radiation pattern, near- and far-field regions, reciprocity, directivity and gain, effective aperture, polarization, input impedance, efficiency, Friis transmission equation, radiation integrals and auxiliary potential functions.
UNIT II THIN LINEAR ANTENNAS AND ARRAYS
Infinitesimal dipole, finite-length dipole, linear elements near conductors, dipoles for mobile communication, small circular loop, N-Element Linear Array, Antenna element spacing without grating lobes, Linear broadside array with non-uniform distributions, Gain of regularly spaced planar arrays with d = λ/2, Tchebyscheff Array antennas.
UNIT III SECONDARY SOURCES AND APERTURE ANTENNAS
Magnetic currents, Duality, Images of electric and magnetic currents, electric and magnetic currents as sheet sources, Impressed and induced current sources, Induction and equivalence theorems, Field of a secondary or Huygens source, Radiation from open end of a coaxial line, Radiation through an aperture in conducting screen, slot antenna.
UNIT IV EFFECT OF MUTUAL COUPLING ON ANTENNAS
Accounting for mutual effects for dipole array compensation using open-circuit voltages, compensation using the minimum norm formulation, Effect of mutual coupling- constant Jammers, Constant Signal, Compensation of mutual coupling- constant Jammers, Constant Signal, Result of different elevation angle.
UNIT V ADAPTIVE ARRAY CONCEPT
Motivation of using Adaptive Arrays, Adaptive Array problem statement, Signal Environment, Array Element Spacing considerations, Array Performance, Concept of optimum Array Processing, Recursive Methods for Adaptive Error Processing.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the student will be able to
CO1:Acquire the knowledge about basic antenna parameters.
CO2:Theoretically analyze wire antennas and arrays.
CO3:Identify secondary sources, aperture, broadband and frequency independent antennas.
CO4:Apply the knowledge of mutual coupling on antennas, applications and numerical techniques.
CO5:Acquire brief knowledge about adaptive array concept.
TOTAL:45 PERIODS
REFERENCES
1. Balanis, C., Antennas, John Wiley and sons (2007) 3rd
2. Milligan, Thomas A., Modern Antenna Design 2nd edition, IEEE press, Wiley Interscience (2005).
3. David B. Davidson, Computational Electromagnetics for RF and Microwave Engineering, Cambridge University Press 2005.
4. Neelakanta, Perambur S., and Chatterjee, Rajeswari, Antennas for Information Super Skyways: An Exposition on Outdoor and Indoor Wireless Antennas, Research Studies Press Ltd. (2004).
5. Godara, Lal Chand, Smart Antennas, CRC Press (2004).
6. Munk, Ben A., Finite Antenna Arrays and FSS, John Wiley and Sons (2003).