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IV/IV B.TECH VII SEMESTER
17EC3701A- ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION
MICROSYLLABUS
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UNIT -I :Radiation And Antenna Fundamentals
1 Introduction T1-11.1 345
2 Basic Antenna Parameters T1-11.1 345
3 Radiation patterns T1-11.2 353
44 4 Beam Area T1-11.3 356
55 5 Radiation Intensity T1-11.4 359
66 6 Beam Efficiency T1-11.5 361
77 7 Directivity and Gain T1-11.6 362
88 8 Antenna apertures T1-11.7 365
99 9 Effective Height and Area T1-11.8 369
10 10 Radio communication link T1-11.9 372
11 11 Fields from oscillating dipole T1-11.10 374
12 12 Antenna Fields zones T1-11.11 377
13 Polarization T1-10.1 311
14 Retarded potentials T1-10.2 316
15 Fields due to alternating current element T1-10.3 317
16 Power radiated by current element T1-10.4 323
17 Far and near field due to sinusoidal current T1-10.5 325
distribution
UNIT II: Wire Antennas And Antennas Arrays
18 Fields of a short dipole T2-4.3 143
19 Radiation Resistance of short electric dipole T2-4.4 145
20 Thin linear Antenna T2-4.5 151
21 Radiation resistance of λ/2 antenna T2-4.6 162
22 Fields of thin layer antenna with uniform travelling T2-5.2 204
wave
23 Loop antenna general case T2-5.3 217
24 Radiation Resistance of loop antenna
25 Antenna Arrays T2-6.4 276
26 Array of two isotropic point sources T2-6.8 288
27 Non isotropic point sources and principle of T2-6.8 289
multiplication of patterns
28 Linear array of n point sources (Broad side array, T2-6.8 300
End-fire array)
29 Broad side array T2-6.8 302
1 30 End-fire array T2-6.8 304
31 Binomial Array T2-6.8 306-309
UNIT III: VHF and UHF Antennas
32 Introduction to VHF and UHF Antennas T2-10.2 488
33 V and Rhombic Antennas T2-10.3 505
34 Folded Dipole T2-9.5 458
35 Dipole array with parasitic elements T2-10.3 525
36 Yagi Uda array T2-10.3 527
37 Horn antennas T2-13.1 651
 38 Helical antenna T2-10.3 530
39 Practical design considerations T2-10.3 530
40 Principle of operation T2-10.3 535
41 Reflector antennas T2-10.3 535
42 Parabolic reflector T2-10.3 535
43 Corner reflector T2-10.3 535
44 Feed methods for parabolic reflectors T2-10.3 535
UNIT IV: Radio Wave Propagation
45 Ground Wave Propagation T1-16.01 629
46 Space Wave Propagation T1-16.02 635
47 Field strength relation T1-16.03 644
48 Effect of Earth T1-16.04 649
49 Super Refraction T1-16.05 654
50 Tropospheric Propagation T1-16.06 655
51 Sky Wave Propagation T1-16.07 657
52 Structural details of the Ionosphere T1-17.01 667
53 Wave propagation Mechanism T1-17.02 668
54 Refraction and Reflection of Sky waves by T1-17.03 670
Ionosphere
55 Ray Path T1-17.04 671
56 Critical Frequency T1-17.05 678
57 MUF,LUF,OF, virtual height and Skip Distance T1-17.06 681
58 Relation between MUF and the skip distance T1-17.07 682
59 Multi-Hop Propagation T1-17.01 687

Text books:
[1]. Edward C Jordan and Keith G Balmin. “Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating Systems”,
2nd edition, 2003, PHI,. (Units- 1 & 4)
[2]. Constantine A Balanis, “Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design”, Harper and Row Publishers, 2002.
(Units- 2 & 3)
Reference Books:
[1]. J.D.Kraus and Ronald J Marhefka Ahmad S Khan “Antennas and Wave Propagation”,
Tata McGraw Hill, 4 th edition, 2010.

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