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The document discusses various types of antennas including wire antennas, dipoles, monopoles, loops, arrays, helical antennas, horn antennas, microstrip antennas, and reflector antennas. It also covers topics like antenna parameters, propagation modes, waveguides, passive microwave devices, microwave amplifiers and oscillators, semiconductor microwave devices, and microwave measurements.

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The document discusses various types of antennas including wire antennas, dipoles, monopoles, loops, arrays, helical antennas, horn antennas, microstrip antennas, and reflector antennas. It also covers topics like antenna parameters, propagation modes, waveguides, passive microwave devices, microwave amplifiers and oscillators, semiconductor microwave devices, and microwave measurements.

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UNIT I

Antenna Basics &Wire Antennas: Definition of antenna, Radiation Mechanism – single


wire, two wire, dipoles, Antenna Parameters - Radiation Patterns, Main Lobe and Side Lobes,
Beam widths, Beam Area, Radiation Intensity, Beam Efficiency, Directivity, Gain and
Resolution, Aperture Efficiency, Effective Height and length, Radiation from Small Electric
Dipole, Quarter wave Monopole and Half wave Dipole – Current Distributions, Field
Components, Radiated power, Radiation Resistance, Loop Antennas - Introduction, Small
Loop, Comparison of far fields of small loop and short dipole, Radiation Resistances and
Directives of small and large loops (Qualitative Treatment), Arrays with Parasitic Elements -
Yagi - Uda Arrays, Folded Dipoles & their characteristics
UNIT II
VHF, UHF and Microwave Antennas: Helical Antennas-Helical Geometry, Helix modes,
Horn Antennas- Types, Fermat’s Principle, Optimum Horns, Design considerations of
Pyramidal Horns, Micro strip Antennas- Introduction, features, advantages and limitations,
Rectangular patch antennasGeometry and parameters, characteristics of Micro strip antennas,
reflector antennas - Introduction, corner reflectors, parabola reflectors- geometry, pattern
characteristics, Feed Methods, Reflector Types - Related Features, Lens Antennas - Geometry
of Non-metallic Dielectric Lenses, Zoning , Tolerances, Applications
UNIT III
Antenna Arrays and propagation: Arrays of 2 Isotropic sources- Different cases, Principle
of Pattern Multiplication, Uniform Linear Arrays – Broadside Arrays, End fire Arrays, EFA
with Increased Directivity, Derivation of their characteristics and comparison, Bionomial
Arrays, Different modes of wave propagation, Ground wave propagation Space wave
propagation - Sky wave propagation (Qualitative treatment).
Waveguides: Introduction, Rectangular waveguides, Field expressions for TE and TM
modes, Wave propagation in the guide, Phase and group velocities, Power transmission and
attenuation, Waveguide current and mode excitation, Circular waveguide – TE and TM
modes, Wave propagation, waveguide resonators.
UNIT IV
Passive Microwave Devices: Introduction to scattering parameters and their properties,
Terminations, Variable short circuit, Attenuators, Phase shifters, Hybrid Tees (H-plane, E-
plane, Magic Tees), Hybrid ring, Directional Couplers – Bethe hole and Two hole Couplers,
Microwave propagation in Ferrites, Microwave devices employing Faraday rotation –
Isolator, Circulator, Deriving Scattering matrix for Microwave passive devices.
Microwave Amplifiers and Oscillators: Microwave Tubes: Linear Beam Tubes – Two
cavity Klystron amplifier -velocity modulation, bunching process, output power, Reflex
Klystron oscillator, power output and efficiency, Travelling Wave Tube (TWT) – Bunching
process and amplificationprocess (Qualitative treatment only). Crossed Field Tubes –
Magnetron oscillator, pi-mode operation, power output and efficiency, Hartree Condition.
UNIT V
Microwave Semiconductor Devices: Gunn Oscillator – Principle of operation,
Characteristics, Two valley model, IMPATT, TRAPATT diodes.
Antennas and Microwave Measurements: Sources of errors, Patterns to be Measured,
Pattern Measurement Arrangement, Directivity Measurement, Gain Measurements (by
comparison, Absolute and 3-Antenna Methods). Description of Microwave bench-different
blocks and their features, errors and precautions, Microwave power measurements,
Measurement of attenuation, frequency, VSWR (low, medium, high), Measurement of ‘Q’ of
a cavity, Impedance measurements.

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