NEAR FIELD: INDUCTION FIELD OR FRESNEL

FIELD

CAPTURED AREA & CAPTURED POWER

SUMMARY FOR VARIOUS ANTENNAS

FAR FIELD: RADIATION FIELD OR FRAUNHOFER FIELD

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY ()

BASIC ANTENNAS
1. Elementary Doublet (Hertzian dipole)
DIRECTIVE GAIN

POWER GAIN
2. Half-Wave Dipole- resonant antenna
Voltage, Current & Impedance Distribution of Halfwave dipole

EFFECTIVE ISOTROPIC RADIATED POWER

(EIRP)

If the feed point is distance xfrom one end of a half

wave (/2) dipole
3. Quarter-Wave
(Marconi or Long-wire)
EFFECTIVE RADIATED POWER (ERP)

antenna- vertical antenna is

basically a half-wave dipole placed vertically, with the

other half of the dipole being the ground (image).

SPECIAL PURPOSE ANTENNA

1. Folded Dipole antenna- made up of two
Elements
2. Yagi-Uda antenna- linear array w/ two or more
parasitic elements

(b)
Broadside array
(c)

End-fire array
(d)

Log-

3. Turnstile antenna- omnidirectional pattern.

Periodic antenna
4. Loop antenna- formed into one or more turns so
its end are close together.

5.

Helical
antenna- A
circularly
polarized antenna
Two Principal Modes:
a. Normal(Broads
ide) Mode- inefficient
radiators, used for mobile communications
b. Axial (End Fire) Mode- the antenna
produces true circular polarization
Gain of a helical antenna
3dB
Beamwidth ()
PARABOLIC REFLECTOR ANTENNA
Gain of a Parabolic Reflector antenna
MULTI-ELEMENT
ARRAYS
1. Multi- according to their directivity: (a)
Bidirectional array, (b) Unidirectional array
2. In Terms of Direction of Radiation
(a) Collinear array

HORN ANTENNA
provides the impedance transformation between
waveguide and free space impedance