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Fundamentals of Aperture Antennas and Arrays
From Theory to Design, Fabrication and Testing
Trevor S. Bird (Author)
9781118923566, Wiley
Hardback, published 1 January 2016
448 pages
25.2 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.821 kg
This book is intended as an advanced text for courses in antennas, with a focus on the mature but vital background field of aperture antennas. The book is aimed at final year, MSc, PhD and Post-Doctoral students, as well as readers who are moving from academia into industry, beginning careers as wireless engineers, system designers, in R&D, or for practising engineers. It assumes the reader has undertaken an earlier course of study on Maxwell's equations, fields and waves. Some of these topics are summarised in the early few chapters in order to provide continuity and background for the remaining chapters. The aperture antennas covered include the main types of horns, reflectors and arrays as well as microstrip patches, reflectarrays and lenses. To provide more than a superficial treatment of arrays, the topic of mutual coupling is covered in greater detail than most similar books in the area. Also included is an introduction to arrays on non-planar surfaces, which is of importance for applications that involve curved surfaces such as in aerodynamics or for making aperture antennas unobtrusive. A chapter is included on some modern aperture antennas to illustrate design techniques beyond the most common types of aperture antennas described in the early chapters. This is to show where advances have recently been made and where they could be improved in the future. Also included are selected topics of a practical nature for aperture antennas, namely fabrication and measurement.
Preface xiii Acknowledgement xv 1 Introduction 1 2 Background Theory 7 3 Fields Radiated by an Aperture 29 4 Waveguide and Horn Antennas 71 5 Microstrip Patch Antenna 137 6 Reflector Antennas 149 7 Arrays of Aperture Antennas 219 8 Conformal Arrays of Aperture Antennas 307 9 Reflectarrays and Other Aperture Antennas 335 10 Aperture Antennas in Application 357 Appendix A: Useful Identities 391 Appendix B: Bessel Functions 395 Appendix C: Proof of Stationary Behaviour of Mutual Impedance 403 Appendix D: Free-Space Dyadic Magnetic Green’s Function 405 Appendix E: Complex Fresnel Integrals 407 Appendix F: Properties of Hankel Transform Functions 411 Appendix G: Properties of Fock Functions for Convex Surfaces 413 References 421 Index 423
Subject Areas: Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]
