JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Antenna Theory: Antennas, Radiation concept, Types of Antennas, Antenna parameters, Friis Transmission equation.

UNIT - II

Aperture Antenna: Introduction, Pyramidal Horns- Design Procedure, Conical and Corrugated Horns, Aperture Corrugated Horns, Reflected Antennas- Parameters, Analysis of front-fed parabolic reflector, Feed methods and feed types, Cassegrain Reflector Horns.

UNIT - III

Microstrip Radiators: Introduction, Rectangular Microstrip Antenna analysis and Design, Circular Microstrip Antenna Analysis and Design,

UNIT - IV

Microstrip Slot Antennas: Wave guide fed slots, Radiation mechanism, Micro strip slot antennas, Introduction to rectangular slot antennas, narrow, wide, tapered and circularly polarized slot antennas, Annular slot antennas, Comparison of microstrip slot antennas with patch antennas.

UNIT - V

Micro Strip Antenna Arrays: Introduction, Micro strip array antennas, Characteristics of fixed beam linear antenna arrays, Linear micro strip arrays, Characteristics of planar arrays, Microstrip planar arrays, Microstrip scanned array antennas, Phase scanned microstrip arrays, Time delay scanning, Electronic feed switching, Frequency scanned microstrip arrays, Advantage and disadvantages of phased array antennas.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Constantine Balanis. A, “Antenna Theory-Analysis and Design”, 3rd Edition, John Wiley, 2005.
• 2. Bahl IJ, and P. Bhartia, “Microstrip Antennas”, Artech House, 1980.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Ramesh Garg, Prakash Bhatia, Inder Bahl, Apisak Ittipiboon, “Microstrip Antenna Design Hand Book”, Artech House Inc., 2001.
• 2. Samuel Silver, “Microwave Antenna - Theory and design”, IEE Press, 1984.
• 3. James. J R. Hall, P S. Wood. C, “Micro strip Antenna-Theory and Design”, Peter Peregrinus Ltd., 1981. R19 M.TECH. WIRELESS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS M.TECH.- I YEAR- I SEMESTER WIRELESS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS