Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics introduces the principles of array and phased array antennas.

Packed with first-hand practical experience and worked-out examples, this is a valuable learning tool and reference source for those wishing to improve their understanding of basic array antenna systems without relying heavily on a thorough knowledge of electromagnetics or antenna theory.

Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics

• Features a general introduction to antennas and explains the array antenna principle through discussion of the physical characteristics rather than the theory
• Explores topics often not covered in antenna textbooks, such as active element pattern, array feeding, means of phase changing, array antenna characterisation, sequential rotation techniques and reactively loaded arrays
• Guides the reader through the necessary mathematics, allowing them to move onto specialist books on array and phased array antennas with a greater understanding of the topic

Contents

1. Radiation
   • The Early History of Electricity and Magnetism
   • James Clerk Maxwell, The Union of Electricity and Magnetism
   • Radiation by Accelerated Charge
   • Reactive and Radiating Electromagnetic Fields

2. Antennas
   • The Early History of Antennas
   • Antenna Developments During the First World War
   • Antenna Developments in Between the Wars
   • Antenna Developments During The Second World War
   • Post War Antenna Developments

3. Antenna Parameters
   • Radiation Pattern
   • Antenna Impedance and Bandwidth
   • Polarisation
   • Antenna Effective Area and Vector Effective Length
   • Radio Equation
   • Radar Equation

4. The Linear Broadside Array Antenna
   • A Linear Array of Non-Isotropic Point-Source Radiators
   • Plane Waves
   • Received Signal
   • Array Factor
   • Side Lobes and Grating Lobes
   • Amplitude Taper

5. Design of a 4-Elements, Linear, Broadside, Microstrip Patch Array Antenna
   • Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna
   • Split-T Power Divider
   • Transmission and Reflection Coefficients for a Corporate Fed Array Antenna
   • Simulation, Realisation and Measurement

6. The Linear Endfire Array Antenna
   • Phase Differences
   • Hansen-Woodyard Endfire Array Antenna
   • Mutual Coupling
   • Yagi-Uda Array Antenna

7. The Linear Phased Array Antenna
   • Linear Phase Taper
   • Beam Broadening
   • Grating Lobes and Visible Space
   • Means of Phase Shifting

8. A Frequency Scanned Slotted Waveguide Array Antenna
   • Slotted Waveguide Array Antenna
   • Antenna Design
   • Validation

9. The Planar Array and Phased Array Antenna
   • Geometry
   • Planar Array Antenna
   • Planar Phased Array Antenna

10. Special Array Antenna Configurations
    • Conformal Array and Phased Array Antennas
    • Volume Array and Phased Array Antennas
    • Sequential Rotation and Phasing
    • Reactive Loading

11. Array and Phased Array Antenna Measurement
    • Input Impedance, Self Coupling and Mutual Coupling
    • Radiation Pattern Measurement
    • Scan Element Pattern
    • Waveguide Simulator

Appendices

• Complex Analysis
• Vector Analysis
• Effective Aperture and Directivity
• Transmission Line Theory
• Scattering Matrix
• Voltage Incident at a Transmission Line
• Cascaded Scattering Matrices

Index

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