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Chapter 1. Introduction.—Learning objectives.—A short history of antennas.—Dimensions and units.—Reading of the symbols and notation.—Dimensional analysis.—The electromagnetic spectrum.
Chapter 2. Antenna basics.—Basics antenna parameters.—Oscillating dipole.—Polarization.—Antenna theorems.
Chapter 3. The antenna family.—Loops. Dipoles and slots.—Opened-out antenna configurations.—Flat-sheet reflector antennas.—Parabolic dish and dielectric lens antennas.—End-fire antennas.—Broad bandwidth antennas: the conical spiral and the long-periodic.—Patch antenna, patch array and the grid array.—Antenna aplications.
Chapter 4. Radiation.—The dipole.—Field relations.—Fields and radiated power due to an alternating current element (oscillating dipole).—Field due to sinusoidal corrent distribution.
Chapter 5. Point sources and their arrays.—Point source.—Arrays of two point sources.—Linear arrays if n isotropic point sources of equal amplitude and spacing.—Linear broadside arrays with nonuniform amplitude distributions.—Continuous arrays.
Chapter 6. Electric dipoles. Thin linear antennas, and arrays of dipoles and apertures.—The short electric dipole.—The thin linear antenna.—Arrays of driven elements.—Horizontal antennas above a plane ground.—Yagi-uda antenna.—Long-wire antennas.—Folded dipone antennas.
Chapter 7. Loop, slot and horn antennas.—Loop antenna.—Slot antennas.—Horn antennas.
Chapter 8. Helical antennas.—Helical beam antenna.—Monofilar axial-mode helical antenna.—Arrays of monofilar axial-mode helical antennas.—Applications and forms of monofilar axial-mode herlical antennas.—Multifilar axial-mode helical antennas.
Chapter 9. Reflector antennas.—Types of reflectors.—Flat-sheet and corner reflectores.—Parabolic reflectors and parrterns of large apertures.—Some salient features of different types of reflectors.—Feed methods for parabolic reflectorrs.
Chapter 10. Lens antennas.—Types of lens antennas.- Nonmetallic dielectric lens antennas: Fermat´s principle.—E-plane metal-plate lens antennas.—Some other lens antenna.
Chapter 11. Broadband and frequency-independent antennas.—Conical antennas.—The frequency-independent concept: Rumsey´s principle.—The frequency-independent planar log-spiral antenna.—The long-periodic antenna.
Chapter 12. The cylindrical antenna and the moment method (MM).—Outiline of the integral-equation method.—Patterns of cylindrical antenna.—Integral equations and the moment method (MM) in electrostatics.
Chapter 13. Frequency-selective sufaces and periodic structures.—Frecuency-selective Surface (FSS).—Transmission and reflection properties of periodic surfaces.- Other applications.
Chapter 14. Microstrip Antennas.—Some salient features of microstrip antennas.—Rectangular microstrip antennas.—Characteristics of microstrip antennas.—Methods for MSA tuning, Indreasign BW and size reduction.—Methods of analysis.—Advantages, limitations and aplications of MSAs.
Chapter 15. Antennas for mobile conmunication systems.—Antennas for terrestrial mobile communication systems by pertti.—Types of antennas used in mobile conmunication.—Tipys of arrays.
Chapter 16. Antennas for special applications.—Different specialized and applicatios-oriented antennas.—Antennas for satellite communication, landing, remote sensing and other applications.
Chapter 17. Practical design consideratios of large apertura antennas.—Aperture distribution of large apertura antennas.—Feed and side-lobe considerations.
Chapter 18. Antenna temperature, remote sensing and radar cross-section.—Antenna and system temperature.—Passive remote sensing.—Radar and radar cross-section.
Chapter 19. Self and mutual impedances.—Reprocity theorem for antennas.—Self-impedance.—Mutual impedance of two parallel linear antenna.
Chapter 20. The Fourier transform relation between apertura distribution and far-field pattern.—Continuous apertura distribution.—The simple (adding) interferometer.—Aperture synthesis and multi-aperture synthesis.
Chapter 21. Baluns, etc.—Some salient features of balun.—Balun as an impedance transformer.
Chapter 22. Antenna Measurements.—Basic concepts.—Typical sources of error in antenna measurements.—Measurements ranges.—Measurements of different antenna parameters.—Miscellaneneous topics.—Analysers.
Chapter 23. Propagarion of radio waves.—Wave propagation basics.—The ground wave.—The space waves.—The sky waves.—
Appendix A. Tables for reference.—Appendix B. Books, tapes and articles.—Appendix C. Computer programs (codes).—Appendix D. Absorbing and ferrite materials.—Appendix E. Measurement error.—Appendix F. Answers to objective type quiestions.