Fang D.G. Antenna Theory and Microstrip Antennas

CRC Press, 2009. — 312 p. — ISBN-10: 1439807272. — ISBN-13: 978-1439807279.Antenna Theory and Microstrip Antennas offers a uniquely balanced analysis of antenna fundamentals and microstrip antennas. Concise and readable, it provides theoretical background, application materials, and details of recent progress. Exploring several effective design approaches, this book covers a wide scope, making it an ideal hands-on resource for professionals seeking a refresher in the fundamentals. It also provides the basic grounding in antenna essentials that is required for those new to the field.
The book’s primary focus is on introducing practical techniques that will enable users to make optimal use of powerful commercial software packages and computational electromagnetics used in full wave analysis and antenna design. Going beyond particular numerical computations to teach broader concepts, the author systematically presents the all-important spectral domain approach to analyzing microstrip structures including antennas. In addition to a discussion of near-field measurement and the high-frequency method, this book also covers:
Elementary linear sources, including Huygen’s planar element, and analysis and synthesis of the discrete and continuous arrays formed by these elementary sources;
The digital beam-forming antenna and smart antenna;
Cavity mode theory and related issues, including the design of irregularly shaped patches and the analysis of mutual coupling.
Based on much of the author’s own internationally published research, and honed by his years of teaching experience, this text is designed to bring students, engineers, and technicians up to speed as efficiently as possible. This text purposefully emphasizes principles and includes carefully selected sample problems to ease the process of understanding the often intimidating area of antenna technology. Paying close attention to this text, you will be able to confidently emulate the author’s own systematic approach to make the most of commercial software and find the creative solutions that every job seems to require.Basic Concepts of Antennas.Radiation Mechanism.
Two Kinds of Linear Elementary Sources and Huygens’ Planar Element.
Fundamental Parameters of Antennas.
Arrays and Array Synthesis.N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Amplitude and Spacing.
Phased (Scanning) Array, Grating Lobe and Sub-Array.
N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Spacing, Nonuniform Amplitude.
N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Amplitude, Nonuniform Spacing.
Signal Processing Antenna Array.
Planar Arrays.
Array Synthesis through Genetic Algorithm (GA).
Microstrip Patch Antennas.Cavity Model and Transmission Line Model.
Improvement and Extension of the Cavity Model.
Design Procedure of a Single Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna.
Example of LTCC Microstrip Patch Antenna.
Spectral Domain Approach and Its Application to Microstrip Antennas.Basic Concept of Spectral Domain Approach.
Some Useful Transform Relations.
Scalarization of Maxwell’s Equations.
Dyadic Green’s Function (DGF).
Mixed Potential Representations.
Transmission-Line Green’s Functions.
Introduction to Complex Integration Techniques.
Full Wave Discrete Image and Full Wave Analysis of Microstrip Antennas.
Asymptotic Integration Techniques and Their Applications.
Effective Methods in Using Commercial Software for Antenna Design.The Space Mapping (SM) Technique.
Extrapolation and Interpolation Methods.
Using the Model from Physical Insight to Create a Formula.
Using Models from the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to Train Formula.Design of Conventional and DBF Microstrip Antenna Arrays.Feeding Architecture.
Design of Power Divider and Transmission on the Transformer.
Design Examples of Microstrip Antenna Arrays.
Mutual Coupling in Finite Microstrip Antenna Arrays.
Introduction to a Digital Beamforming Receiving Microstrip Antenna Array.
High Frequency Methods and Their Applications to Antennas.Geometrical Optics.
Physical Optics.
Diffraction by a Conducting Half Plane With Normal Incidence.
Diffraction by a Conducting Half Plane With Arbitrary Incidence.
Applications of Geometrical Theory of Diffraction in Antennas.
Fresnel Diffraction in Three Dimensions.
Planar Near-Field Measurement and Array Diagnostics.Fundamental Transformations.
Probe Compensation.
Integral Equation Approach.
Array Diagnostics.