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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface 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
