EE 252 Antennas for Telecommunications and Remote Sensing

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

SUMMARY

(from the Stanford Bulletin)
Fundamental parameters. Dipoles, loops, reflectors, Yagis, helices, slots, horns, microstrips. Antennas as transitions between guided and free radiation, ultrasound analogue. Famous antennas. Pattern measurements. Friis and radar equations. Feeds, matching, baluns. Broadbanding. Arrays, aperture synthesis, interferometry, very-long-baseline interferometry. Thermal radiation, antenna temperature, microwave passive remote sensing.

PREREQUISITES

EE 142 or equivalent. Solid knowledge of vector calculus will also come in useful.

TEXTS

Required: Stutzman and Thiele, Antenna Theory and Design, second edition, 1998.
Recommended: Kraus, Antennas, second edition, 1988.

REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING

There will be weekly homework assignments, a midterm exam, and a term project.

Grades will be weighted as follows:

Term project	40%
Midterm	25%
Homework	35%

NEWSGROUPS

Several newsgroups that may be of interest:

rec.radio.amateur.antenna

Many of the practical issues of antenna design and construction are discussed in this newsgroup.

comp.soft-sys.matlab

This newsgroup is devoted to Matlab. Have a piece of code that you can't quite vectorize? Post it here.

sci.physics.electromag

This newsgroup is devoted to discussion of all aspects of electromagnetic theory. Unfortunately, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low.

LINKS

Here are some E-mail and WWW links that may be useful.

E-mail the Instructor

E-mail the TA

SCV Antennas and Propagation Society

Analysis of Cell Phone Antenna Radiation Risks

Matlab Solution Search

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The Stanford "Big Dish," a 46 m parabolic antenna.

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Last Updated: 3/30/05