NPTEL : NOC:Analysis and Design Principles of Microwave Antennas (Electrical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Amitabha Bhattacharya


Lecture 1 - Concept of Scalar and Vector Potentials

Lecture 2 - Radiation From a Current Element (Hertzian Dipole)

Lecture 3 - Specific Properties of the Radiated Fields from a Current Element

Lecture 4 - General Properties of Radiated Fields from an Antenna

Lecture 5 - Farfield and Radiation Pattern of an Antenna

Lecture 6 - Directivity and Gain of an Antenna

Lecture 7 - Idea of Efficiency, Beamwidth, Polarisation and Bandwidth

Lecture 8 - Polarization of Antenna

Lecture 9 - Impedance of Antenna

Lecture 10 - Effective Aperture of an Antenna

Lecture 11 - Friss Transmission Equation and Antenna Temperature

Lecture 12 - Dipole And Monopole Antena

Lecture 13 - Dipole And Monopole Antena (Continued...)

Lecture 14 - BALUN

Lecture 15 - Loop Antenna

Lecture 16 - Folded Dipole Antenna

Lecture 17 - Introduction to Antenna Array

Lecture 18 - Antenna Array Theory

Lecture 19 - Broadside Uniform Linear Array

Lecture 20 - Endfire Linear Uniform Array

Lecture 21 - Parasitic Array and Log Periodic Antenna

Lecture 22 - Analysis Procedures of Aperture Antennas

Lecture 23 - Analysis Procedures of Aperture Antenna (Continued...)

Lecture 24 - Horn Antenna

Lecture 25 - Horn Antenna (Continued...)

Lecture 26 - Reflector Antennas

Lecture 27 - Paraboloid Reflector Antenna (Continued...)

Lecture 28 - Paraboloid Reflector Antenna (Continued...)

Lecture 29 - Dual Reflector Antenna

Lecture 30 - Generalised Analysis of Antenna

Lecture 31 - Solution of Wave Equation for Electric and Magnetic Current Densities

Lecture 32 - Farfield Evaluation of Spherical Wave Radiation by Generalised Antenna

Lecture 33 - Slot Antenna

Lecture 34 - Open Ended Waveguide Antenna and Microstrip Antenna

Lecture 35 - Numerical Evaluation of Wire Antenna Currents

Lecture 36 - Solution of Intregral Equation by Moment Method

Lecture 37 - Array Pattern Synthesis

Lecture 38 - Array Pattern Synthesis (Continued...)

Lecture 39 - Ultra Wideband Antennas

Lecture 40 - Antenna Measurements