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    EE 474: Antennas and

    Propagation

    Fall 2015
    EE 474: Antennas and
    Propagation

    Fall 2015
    Instructor Information
    Zhengqing (ZQ) Yun
    Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications (HCAC)
    Office: POST 201B
    Phone: 6-0759
    Email: zyun@hawaii.edu
    http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~zqyun/courses/ee47415.html
    Time and Location
    Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
    12:30 - 1:20pm
    Holmes 248
    Prerequisites
    EE 371 or instructor approval
    Office Hours
    1:30 - 2:30pm, M, W, F, or by appointment
    Grading
    Homework, quizzes: 30%
    One midterm: 30%
    Final exam: 40%
    Textbooks
    Iskander: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

    Balanis: Antenna Theory

    Bertoni: Radio Propagation for Modern Wireless


    Systems

    Others: John Krauss, Warren Stutzman, etc.


    Contents
    EM Field and Waves: Linear Antennas:
    Maxwell's Equations Infinitesimal and Short Dipoles
    Linear Wire Antennas
    Polarization
    Half-Wavelength Dipoles
    Vector Potentials
    Ground Effects
    Radiation Loop Antennas:
    Near/Far-field concept Circular Loop Antennas
    Antenna Parameters: Other shapes
    Radiation Pattern Array Antennas:
    Power Density, Intensity Sum of Coherent Waves
    Two-Element Arrays
    Beamwidth, Directivity, Gain,
    N-Element Arrays
    Efficiency, Bandwidth
    Design Procedure
    Input Impedance
    Contents
    Integral Equations and Aperture and Horn Antennas:
    Numerical Method: Huygens Principle
    Integral Equations Rectangular Aperture
    Method of Moments Circular Aperture
    Self- and Mutual-Impedance Fourier Transform and
    Broadband and Frequency Applications
    Independent Antennas: Edge Effect Due to Diffraction
    Biconical Antennas Reflector Antennas:
    Spiral Antennas Plane Reflector
    Log Periodic Antennas Corner Reflector
    Fractal Antennas Parabolic Reflector
    Microstrip Antennas:
    Patches
    Circular Polarization
    Contents
    Radio Propagation for Ray-Tracing and Applications
    Wireless Communications: for Site-Specific Propagation
    Wireless Communications Prediction:
    Links and Cellular Systems Background
    Large-scale path loss Ray Tracing Algorithms
    Small-scale fading and New efficient ray tracing methods
    multipath Propagation modeling in urban
    environments
    Free Space Propagation
    Ray tracing in atmosphere
    Empirical Propagation
    Modeling Exploitation of geospatial
    resources for propagation
    prediction:
    NASA's WorldWind; Microsoft's
    Virtual Earth; Google Earth
    Ray tracing in Google Earth
    Course objectives
    Understanding fundamental concepts:
    Radiation of EM field
    Propagation of EM waves
    Near/far field
    Understanding basic antenna parameters
    Understanding how various antennas work
    Understanding basic antenna design
    principles
    Further understanding of EM Waves

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