Antennas: Fundamentals, Design, Measurement, 3rd edition

This comprehensive revision (3rd Edition) is a senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level textbook on antenna fundamentals, design, performance analysis, and measurements. In addition to its use as a formal course textbook, the book's pragmatic style and emphasis on the fundamentals make it especially useful to engineering professionals who need to grasp the essence of the subject quickly but without being mired in unnecessary detail. This new edition was prepared for a first year graduate course at Southern Polytechnic State University in Georgia. It provides broad coverage of antenna types and phenomena, for operations at very low radio frequencies, as well as frequencies up to those of submillimeter wavelengths. Most antenna textbooks are written for readers proficient with vector calculus and begin with the use of Maxwell's equations in the development of antenna theory. These books do not meet the needs of many students and engineers who, because of their backgrounds or personal interests, desire a more direct path for assimilating antenna fundamentals and their connection to application topics of antenna engineering. There are problems at the end of each chapter, and answers to the odd numbered problems are included at the end of the book. Complete answers are available for instructors who adopt the book. The appendices provide technical depth to the chapters and downloadable data files are referenced in the chapters for providing a more complete treatment of antennas. The downloadable data files provide computer solutions in both Mathcad and MATLAB to problems in the areas that follow: