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Antenna Terms and Parameters

Presented by APN Rao, Dept ECE, GRIET, Hyderabad. Jul 2011

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Rr

Radiation Resistance S (av) ds Power Radiated


r s

I rms

I rms

Ptotal (

dipole)

I0 4

cos2 (
0

2 sin

cos ) d

Rr ( dipole) 73 2
Rr ( dipole) 2 2

2 x 0.6093

Rr ( monopole) 4

36.5

Rr (

folded -dipole)

4 Rr ( dipole) 292 2
2

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Field pattern of a hertzian dipole (vertical)

Field pattern of a /2 dipole (vertical)

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/2 - Dipole pattern

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/2 Dipole patterns for f, 2f, 4f and 8f

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Typical field pattern of an antenna

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Field Plots

Note alternate phasing (+ & - ) of adjacent lobes


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Radian and Steradian

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Radiation Patterns - Types


Types I Power Pattern Field Pattern
Types II

Actual

Normalized

S(,)

U(,)

|E|(,)
Types III

Ratios

decibels

3-D

2-D

Spherical coordinates

x-y-z coordinates

Cartesian

Polar

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Antenna Terms & Parameters


Impedance
Radiation Resistance Loss Resistance Radiation Efficiency
Regions around antenna Near-field, Farfield

Polarization
Linear Circular Elliptical

General
Steradian Power Density Radiation Intensity

Effective Aperture Loss Aperture Scattering Aperture Collecting Aperture Physical Aperture Aperture Efficiency
Noise Antenna Temperature

Aperture

Directional Aspects (2D)


First-null Beamwidth Half-power Beamwidth Resolution

Directional Aspects (3D)


Beam Area, Beam Efficiency Isotropic source Directivity, Gain

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Reciprocity in Antennas

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