An essential text to MATLAB Antenna Toolbox™ as accessible and easy-to-use full-wave antenna modeling tool
Antenna and EM Modeling with MATLAB Antenna Toolbox™ is a textbook on antennas intended for a one semester course. The core philosophy is to introduce the key antenna concepts and follow them up with full-wave modeling and optimization in the MATLAB Antenna Toolbox™. Such an approach will enable immediate testing of theoretical concepts by experimenting in software. It also provides the direct path to research work.
The fundamental families of antennas - dipoles, loops, patches, and traveling wave antennas - are discussed in detail, together with the respective antenna arrays. Using antenna parameters such as impedance, reflection coefficient, efficiency, directivity, and gain, the reader is introduced to the different ways of understanding the performance of an antenna.
Written for senior undergraduates, graduates as well as RF/Antenna engineers, Antenna and EM Modeling with Antenna Toolbox™ is a resource that:
- Provides 14 video assisted laboratories on using Antenna Toolbox™
- Includes approximately 50 real-world examples in antenna and array design
- Offers approximately 200 homework problems
- Provides multiple ready-to-use standalone MATLAB® scripts
Table of Contents
Preface and Text Organization ix
List of Notations xiii
About the Companion Website xv
1 Antenna Circuit Model. Antenna Matching. Antenna Bandwidth 1
Section 1 Lumped Circuit Model of an Antenna. Antenna Input Impedance 1
Section 2 Antenna with Transmission Line. Antenna Reflection Coefficient. Antenna Matching. VSWR 18
2 Receiving Antenna: Received Voltage, Power, and Transmission Coefficient 31
Section 1 Analytical Model for the Receiving Antenna 31
Section 2 Model of a Two-Port Network for TX/RX Antennas 44
3 Antenna Radiation 55
Section 1 Maxwell Equations and Boundary Conditions 55
Section 2 Solution for Maxwell’s Equations in Terms of Electric and Magnetic Potentials 63
Section 3 Antenna Radiation 71
Section 4 Antenna Directivity and Gain 84
4 Antenna Balun. Antenna Reflector. Method of Images 101
Section 1 Antenna Balun 101
Section 2 Antenna Reflector 116
5 Dipole Antenna Family: Broadband Antennas that Operate as Dipoles at Low Frequencies 135
Section 1 Broadband Dipoles and Monopoles 135
Section 2 Biconical, Wide Blade, and Vivaldi Antennas 141
6 Loop Antennas 155
Section 1 Loop Antenna vs. Dipole Antenna 155
7 Small Antennas 171
Section 1 Fundamental Limits on Antenna Bandwidth 171
Section 2 Practical Antenna Matching and Tuning for a Predefined (50 Ω) Impedance 185
8 Patch and PIFA Antennas 197
Section 1 Patch Antennas 197
Section 2 Planar Inverted F (PIFA) Antenna. Bandwidth Estimations 219
9 Traveling Wave Antennas 233
Section 1 Long Wire Antenna and Yagi-Uda Antenna 233
Section 2 Helical and Spiral Antennas 241
10 Antenna Designer Including Circularly Polarized Antennas 251
Section 1 Fast Analysis and Design of Individual Antennas 251
Section 2 Meaning of Circular Polarization and Proper Antenna Orientation 259
11 Antenna Arrays 271
Section 1 Array Types. Array Factor. Concept of a Scanning Array 271
Section 2 Linear Arrays 287
Section 3 Planar Arrays 303
Index 317
