Antenna Design, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

COMM.RF.710

Language of instruction

English

Academic years

2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027

Level of study

Advanced studies

Grading scale

General scale, 0-5

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Jari Kangas

Responsible teacher:

Jouko Heikkinen

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Electrical Engineering Studies 100 %

Sustainable development goals

Goal 4: Quality Education

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

Learning outcomes

Prerequisites

Compulsory prerequisites

Recommended prerequisites

Further information

Learning material

Equivalences

Studies that include this course

Completion option 1

The following tasks are included into the coursework: (1) Antenna simulation task (mandatory) (2) Design, simulation, construction, testing and documentation of an antenna structure (mandatory) (3) Online tasks, in-class tasks, and homework (certain amount of the points available is required to pass) (4) Literature task. The total grade is weighted sum of the individual task grades.

Participation in teaching

Lectures (English)

03.03.2025 – 25.04.2025