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605 ANTENNA & WAVE PROPAGATION (T) L-T-P : 2-1-0 Credits: 3 Module I Basic antenna parameters - gain, directivity, beam solid angle, beam width and effective aperture calculations. Effective height - wave polarization - antenna temperature radiation resistance -radiation efficiency - antenna field zones - principles of reciprocity. Duality of antennas. Concept of retarded potential. Field, directivity and radiation resistance of a short dipole and half wave dipole. Measurement of radiation pattern, gain, directivity and impedance. Module II Arrays of point sources - field of two isotropic point sources - principle of pattern multiplication -linear arrays of n isotropic point sources. Grating lobes. Properties and Design of Broadside, Endfire, Binomial and Dolph chebyshev arrays. . Basic principle of beam steering. Traveling wave antennas. Principle and applications of V and rhombic antennas. Principles of Horn, Parabolic dish and rectangular Patch antennas (expression for E, H, and Gain no derivation). Principle of Log periodic antenna array and Helical antenna. Antennas for mobile base station and handsets. Module III Radio wave propagation Modes structure of atmosphere characteristics of ionized regions sky wave propagation effect of earths magnetic field MUF skip distance virtual height skip distance - Ionospheric abnormalities and absorption space wave propagation LOS distance Effective earths radius Field strength of space wave - duct propagation VHF and UHF Mobile radio propagation Tropospheric Scatter Propagation VLF and ELF propagation in sea water. Text Books : 1. John D. Krauss: Antennas for all Applications, 3/e, TMH. 2. Constantine A Balanis: Antenna Theory and Design, 2/e , Wiley Publications. 3. E.C. Jordan & K G Balmain: Electromagnetic Waves & Radiating Systems, 2/e, PHI. Reference: 1. R.E Collin: Antennas & Radio Wave Propagation, Mc Graw Hill. 1985. 2. Terman: Electronics & Radio Engineering, 4/e, McGraw Hill. 3. Thomas A. Milligan: Modern Antenna Design, IEEE PRESS, 2/e,Wiley Interscience. 4. Ganesh Rao,Somanathan Nair,Antennas and Radiowave Propagation,Sanguine 2007 Question Paper The question paper shall consist of two parts. Part I is to cover the entire syllabus, and carries 40 marks. This shall contain 10 compulsory questions of 4 marks each. Part II is to cover 3 modules, and carries 60 marks. There shall be 3 questions from each module (10 marks each) out of which 2 are to be answered. (Minimum 60 % problems, derivations and proof.)

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