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By Douglas Miron, Consultant
Description As wireless devices and systems get both smaller and more ubiquitous, the demand for effective but small antennas is rapidly increasing.
This book will describe the theory behind effective small antenna design and give design techniques and examples for small antennas for
different operating frequencies. Design techniques are given for the entire radio spectrum, from a very hundred kilohertz to the gigahertz
range.
Unlike other antenna books which are heavily mathematical and theoretical, Douglas Miron keeps mathematics to the absolute minimum
required to explain design techniques. Ground planes, essential for operation of many antenna designs, are extensively discussed. The
book will also include a CD-ROM with design software that will greatly simplify readers' daily design tasks.
Audience
PRIMARY MARKET: RF/wireless design engineers and engineering managers SECONDARY MARKET: Electronics engineering students
Contents Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 What is Small?
1.2 What are the Problems?
1.3 Some Historical Small Antenna
Types and Applications
1.4 Some Present and Future Small Antennas
References
Chapter 2: Antenna Fundamentals I
2.1
Electromagnetic Waves
2.1.1 Waves in Space
2.1.2 Waves in Transmission Lines
2.1.3 Power in Waves
2.2 Polarization
2.3 The Short
Dipole
2.3.1 Radiation Pattern
2.3.2 Circuit Behavior
2.4 The Small Loop
2.4.1 Circuit Behavior
2.5 Directionality, Efficiency,
and Gain
References
Problems
Chapter 3: Antenna Fundamentals II
3.1 Bandwidth and Quality Factor, Q
3.2 Impedance
Matching and System Efficiency
3.2.1 Narrow-Band Matching
3.2.2 Wideband Matching
3.2.3 System Efficiency
3.3 Reception
3.3.1 Effective
Height
3.3.2 Effective Area
3.3.3 Reception Pattern
3.4 Ground Effects
3.4.1 Image Theory
3.4.2 Vertical Dipole Above a Perfect
Ground Plane
3.4.3 Horizontal Dipole Above a PEC Plane
3.4.4 Grounded-Source Antennas
3.4.5 Counterpoise
3.4.6 Summary of Ground
Effects
3.5 Improvements
References
Problems
Chapter 4: Introduction to Numerical Modeling of Wire Antennas
4.1
General Concepts
4.2 The Mathematical Basics of the Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC)
4.2.1 Basis Functions
4.2.2 Applied Field
Models
4.2.3 Solving the Integral Equation
4.3 Using NEC in the Command Window
4.4 Modeling Guidelines
4.5 NEC in a Graphical User
Interface (GUI)
4.6 Examples from Chapters 2 and 3
4.6.1 The Short Dipole
4.6.2 Small Loop in Free Space
4.6.3 End-Loaded Short Dipole
References
Problems
Chapter 5: Programmed Modeling
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Using Wire-List Generators in NEC
5.2 Using
Code to Generate a Wire List
Problems
Chapter 6: Open-Ended Antennas
6.0 Introduction
6.1 Thick Monopoles
6.1.1
Modeling Thick Monopoles
6.2 Top Loading
6.2.1 The Inverted-L
6.2.2 Top-Loading with Radials
6.2.3 Volume Loading
6.3 Coil Loading
6.4 Using Resonance
6.5 Summary
References
Problems
Chapter 7: Loops and Other Closed-Wire Antennas
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Thick Loops
7.1.1 The Doughnut
7.1.2 The Barrel Loop
7.2 Solenoid Antennas
7.3 The Contrawound Toroidal Helix Antenna (CTHA)
7.4 The Folded Spherical Helix Monopole
7.5 Final Comments
References
Problems
Chapter 8: Receiving Antennas
8.0
Introduction
8.1 External Noise
8.2 The Ferrite Rod Antenna
8.2.1 Antenna Parameters
8.2.2 Circuit Applications
8.3 Active Receiving
Antennas
References
Problems
Chapter 9: Measurements
9.1 What are You Measuring?
9.2 Measurements Through a Transmission
Line
9.2.1 If I only have an SWR meter...
9.2.2 Impedance Measured Through a Transmission Line
9.3 Ranges and Test Enclosures
9.4
The Wheeler Cap and Variations
9.4.1 Series and Parallel Effects
References
Problems
Appendix A: The Mathematics of Antenna
Orientation
A.1 Unit-Vector and Coordinate Variable Relations.
A.2 The Horizontal Dipole
A.3 The Vertical Loop
Problems
Appendix B: The Parallel-Ray Approximation
Problems
Appendix C: The Small Loop
Problems
Appendix
D: The Proximity Effect
D.1 Current Distribution
D.1.1 Problem Formulation and Reduction to a System of Linear Equations
D.1.2 Solution for the Current Coefficients
D.2 Power and Resistance
References
Appendix E: What Every EE Student Should
Know About Mathematics by the Senior Year
E.1 What is Mathematics to an Engineer?
E.2 The Process is as Important as the Result
E.3 Facts and Idioms
E.3.1 Special Numbers
E.3.2 Identities and Formulas
E.3.3 Approximations
E.4 Integrals and Derivatives
E.5
Radians or Degrees?
E.6 Matrix Notation and Operations
E.7 Answers for Section E.3
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