ECE 454 Class Calendar

Reading: Sections from Stutzman and Thiele, 2nd Edition indicated in parenthesis

Supplementary Reading: Kraus (1988) - Antennas - 2nd Edition, Kildal (2015) - Foundations of Antenna Engineering, Collin (1995) - Antennas and Radiowave Propagation, Lehuerte (2011) - Compact Antennas for Wireless, Orfanidis (2016) - Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas, Levanon (2004) - Radar Principles, Haslett (2008) - Radio Wave Propagation, Viezbicke (1976) - Yagi Antenna Design

Antenna Simulation by hand: Simulation code derivation and its Mathematica implementations wire1 and wire2 + NEC2 Technical Document

Antenna Simulation with 4nec2: Download Setup_4nec2.exe and install on Windows machines, instructions for MacOS users, for Linux users, and 4nec2 tutorials part1, part2, part3, part4.

Antenna Simulation with FEKO: Elsherbeni ETAL. (2014), FEKO Get Started Guide, FEKO Example Guide, instructions for remote linux/unix users

January 2018
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16 Course objectives and outline, Maxwell's Equations	17	18 EM Fields, Power Radiated by an Antenna (1.1-1.5)	19	20	21
22	23 Hertzian Dipole (1.6)	24	25 Radiation Patterns and Beams (1.7)	26	27	28
29	30 Directivity, Gain (1.8)	31

February 2018
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
			1 Input Impedance and Antenna Polarization (1.9-1.10)	2	3	4
5	6 Link Budgets, EIRP, Antenna Noise (2.5)	7	8 Antenna Open Ckt Voltage and Reciprocity (9.1-9.5)	9	10	11
12	13 Dipoles, Monopoles (2.1-2.3)	14	15 Duality, Small Loop Antennas (2.4)	16	17	18
19	20 Antenna Arrays, Array Factor (3.1)	21	22 Linear Arrays (3.2-3.5)	23	24	25
26	27 Mutual Coupling in Arrays (3.6)	28

March 2018
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
			1 Multi-D Phased Arrays (3.7-3.8)	2	3	4
5	6 Phased Arrays, Beam Scanning (3.8-3.9)	7	8 Resonant Elements, Dipoles, Folded Dipoles, Yagis (5.1-5.4)	9	10	11
12	13 Ground Planes, Image Theory, Monopoles (5.5)	14	15 Midterm Exam - Lect 1-15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27 Imperfect Ground Planes (5.6)	28	29 Loop Antennas (5.7)	30	31

April 2018
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
						1
2	3 Microstrip Antennas (5.8)	4	5 Radiation from Apertures, Huygens' Principle (7.1)	6	7	8
9	10 Rectangular Apertures (7.2-7.3)	11	12 Horn and Reflector Antennas (7.4-7.6)	13	14	15
16	17 Reflector Antennas (7.6-7.7)	18	19 Traveling Wave Antennas (6.1)	20	21	22
23	24 Helical Antennas (6.2)	25	26 Spiral Antennas (6.6)	27	28	29
30

May 2018
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
	1 Log-Periodic Antennas (6.7)	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31