ETEN10

This course provides fundamental aspects of antenna theory, engineering, and applications in wireless communication, radio astronomy, and sub-wavelength photonics. Understanding of the radiation mechanisms of antennas based on Maxwell’s equations, characteristics of common antenna types, and conceptual understanding of how the antennas are included in different radio systems are emphasized. Techniques for the determination of antenna radiation patterns, directivity, gain, polarization, and impedance are presented.

Special topics include radiation from current sources in free space, array antennas, electrically small antennas, resonant antennas, broadband antennas, aperture antennas, and reflector antennas.

Understanding and practice are strengthened in a design, build, and test project, where the student makes an initial design based on physical understanding, refines the design using industrial simulation software, builds the antenna, refines the design based on RF measurements, measures radiation pattern in an anechoic chamber, and finally use the antenna in a Bluetooth communication system.