Undergraduate Catalog

ECCE 470 Antennas and Propagation

Antenna fundamentals, Radiation from a short current dipole, far field approximation, Radiation pattern, Radiation resistance. Radiation integral approach, dipole and monopole antennas, Image techniques, Antenna arrays, Broadside and end-fire arrays, Pattern multiplication, Pattern synthesis, Binomial and Chebyschev arrays, Aperture antennas, Fourier-transform method, Field equivalence principle, Sky-wave and space-wave propagation, Evolving antenna technologies and applications; fundamental design concepts of reconfigurable and conformal antennas, UWB MIMO antennas, antennas for: cognitive radio, propagation at THz and mm-wave, antennas for nano-communications, and biomedical applications.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CMME 310, ECCE 320

Offered

Spring