ELT-47446 Antennas, 8 cr

Additional information

Courses ELT-41746 Antenna Basics, ELT-47446 Antennas, and ELT-47466 Antenna Project are intended to support each other.
For students who want to further increase their knowledge about design and construction of antennas, it is recommended to take also ELT-47466 Antenna Project.
Note that Antenna Basics is given during the first three weeks of the 3rd period, Antennas starts at the middle of the 3rd period (i.e. after the Antenna Basics).
Suitable for postgraduate studies.

Person responsible

Jari Kangas, Jouko Heikkinen

Lessons

Implementation Period Person responsible Requirements
ELT-47446 2016-01 3 - 4 Jari Kangas
Exam, an antenna analysis assignment, and a modeling assignment. Exam is preferably taken by completing a set of tasks.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student is able to explain principles of radiation from antennas. Student is able to apply basic skills in modern antenna design and analyze key parameters of common antenna structures. The student can pose elementary antenna design field problems and has experience on their solution with (numerical)simulation tools. Student is also able to find information from relevant literature and create a scientific report describing his work.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Foundations of propagation from antennas, antenna as a receiver.  Lorentz reciprocity theorem   
2. Radiation from a fixed current density. Electrical and magnetic dipoles.  Pocklington's equation   Method of moments 
3. Antenna arrays.   Antenna synthesis   MIMO--systems 
4. Influence of nearby passive structures  Effect of scales  Metamaterials 
5. Other resonant antennas, e.g. Yagi--Uda. Microstrip antennas: Analytical models (Cavity / transmission line / full wave model); substrates, surface waves, feeding techniques  Broadbanding of microstrip antennas   
6. Broadband antennas  Babinet principle   
7. Aperture antennas  Huygens principle   
8. Numerical design methods and tools  Basics of simulation algorithms   

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
ELT-41746 Antenna Basics Advisable    
ELT-47426 Transmission Lines and Waveguides Advisable    



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
ELT-47446 Antennas, 8 cr SMG-8506 Antennas, 8 cr  

Updated by: Laine Katja, 13.04.2016