Introduction to Antennas: Gain, Directivity, Solid-angle, Impedance, Polarization, etc.
Friis Transmission and Radar Equations: Some System Examples
Review of Maxwell’s Equations, Reciprocity (important to antennas)
Plane waves, Polarization, Wave Impedance, Poynting Vector
Radiation and Free-Space Green’s function, Vector and Scalar Potentials
Dipoles and Loops, Impedance of dipoles and loops
Ground planes and Image Theory (introduce a bit arrays using image theory)
Traveling-Wave Antennas (radio amateur antennas and near-horizon communications)
Array Theory and Phased Arrays: Use signal processing techniques to analyze arrays (gain, tapered distribution, amplitude and phase error effects, 1-D and 2-D arrays, etc.)
Antenna Impedance: Analysis techniques, dipole antennas, slot antennas, extension to non-uniform cross-sections
Mutual Impedance in Arrays: The emf method. Not a lot of coverage, but enough to understand it.
Classic Antennas:
Dual-Dipole over a ground plane (symmetric pattern, array theory),
Dipole backed by a corner reflector (array theory),
Yagi-Uda (mutual coupling effect),
Log Periodic (endfire feeding),
Helical antennas (traveling waves on a circle and end-fire feeding arrangement),
Spiral antennas (wideband self-mapping),
Inverted F-Antennas (cell phones),
Antennas for circular polarization (other than the helical antenna)
Equivalence Principle and Slot Antennas (do not cover cavity backed slots)
Microstrip Antennas: The two-slot model (do not cover cavity model), Microstrip antenna arrays
Apertures: Uniform, tapered, rectangular, Circular
Horn Antennas: E-plane horn, H-plane horn, rectangular horn, circular horns, and dual-mode horns
Reflector and Lenses: Parabolic reflectors, lenses, taper and spillover, blockage, off-axis behavior
Miniature Antennas (Cell phone applications)
Measurement Systems: Far-field range, near-field range, compact range and other measurement techniques
System level applications of antennas (MIMO, Multi-Beam, Phased Arrays, etc.)