Intro to Antennas Class


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.