Antenna Design, 5 op

Core content

• Broadband antennas. Broadbanding of microstrip antennas.
  Log-periodic and spiral antennas.
  Numerical simulations of broadband antennas.
  
• Quality factor, fundamental limitations on size, efficiency, and bandwidth of antennas. Examples of multiresonant antennas. Effect of nearby objects on antenna performance.
• Aperture antennas. Radiation from a slot, analysis of horn antennas.
• Antenna arrays. Array factor, beam steering, mutual coupling in arrays.
  Numerical simulations of antenna arrays.
  
• Numerical design methods and tools, frequency domain, time domain, and characteristic mode analysis. 
• Design, construction and testing of antennas (e.g. wideband or multiband antennas). Basic antenna measurements. Reporting and interpreting measurement and simulation results.

Complementary knowledge

• Babinet principle
• Travelling wave antennas, surface waves
• Scale models for antennas
• Huygens principle
• Antenna synthesis
• Millimeter-Wave antennas

Specialist knowledge

• UWB antennas, parameters characterizing antennas in time-domain
• Bodyworn antennas, on-chip antennas, new antenna materials (e.g. textiles)
• Method of moments, Pocklington's equation
• Uniform theory of diffraction
• MIMO-systems
• Metamaterials