Preface and Text Organization ixList of Notations xiiiAbout the Companion Website xv1 Antenna Circuit Model. Antenna Matching. Antenna Bandwidth 1Section 1 Lumped Circuit Model of an Antenna. Antenna Input Impedance 1Section 2 Antenna with Transmission Line. Antenna Reflection Coefficient. Antenna Matching. VSWR 182 Receiving Antenna: Received Voltage, Power, and Transmission Coefficient 31Section 1 Analytical Model for the Receiving Antenna 31Section 2 Model of a Two-Port Network for TX/RX Antennas 443 Antenna Radiation 55Section 1 Maxwell Equations and Boundary Conditions 55Section 2 Solution for Maxwell's Equations in Terms of Electric and Magnetic Potentials 63Section 3 Antenna Radiation 71Section 4 Antenna Directivity and Gain 844 Antenna Balun. Antenna Reflector. Method of Images 101Section 1 Antenna Balun 101Section 2 Antenna Reflector 1165 Dipole Antenna Family: Broadband Antennas that Operate as Dipoles at Low Frequencies 135Section 1 Broadband Dipoles and Monopoles 135Section 2 Biconical, Wide Blade, and Vivaldi Antennas 1416 Loop Antennas 155Section 1 Loop Antenna vs. Dipole Antenna 1557 Small Antennas 171Section 1 Fundamental Limits on Antenna Bandwidth 171Section 2 Practical Antenna Matching and Tuning for a Predefined (50 Omega) Impedance 1858 Patch and PIFA Antennas 197Section 1 Patch Antennas 197Section 2 Planar Inverted F (PIFA) Antenna. Bandwidth Estimations 2199 Traveling Wave Antennas 233Section 1 Long Wire Antenna and Yagi-Uda Antenna 233Section 2 Helical and Spiral Antennas 24110 Antenna Designer Including Circularly Polarized Antennas 251Section 1 Fast Analysis and Design of Individual Antennas 251Section 2 Meaning of Circular Polarization and Proper Antenna Orientation 25911 Antenna Arrays 271Section 1 Array Types. Array Factor. Concept of a Scanning Array 271Section 2 Linear Arrays 287Section 3 Planar Arrays 303Index 317
SERGEY N. MAKAROV, PhD/DrSci, is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.VISHWANATH IYER, PhD, is a Principal Software Developer in the RF and EM group at the MathWorks, Inc.SHASHANK KULKARNI, PhD, is a Principal Software Developer and manages the EM and RF group at MathWorks India Pvt Ltd.STEVEN R. BEST, PhD, is President and Chairman of MegaWave Corporation, located in Worcester, MA.