VARDHAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(AUTONOMOUS)
Shamshabad – 501 218, Hyderabad
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
ANTENNAS & WAVE PROPAGATION (A1418)
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-2016

V SEM ECE – A LECTURE PLAN

Lecture
Date Topics to be Covered
No
Course Overview, Prerequisites, Course Objectives, Course
1. 06.07.2015
Outcomes, Text books and Reference Books.
UNIT – I

Antenna Basics

2. 07-07-2015 Radiation Mechanism – single wire, 2 wires, dipoles

3. 09-07-2015 Current Distribution on a thin wire Antenna

4. 10-07-2015 Basic Antenna Parameters -Patterns

5. 13-07-2015 Beam widths, Beam Area

6. 14-07-2015 Radiation Intensity, Beam Efficiency

7. 16-07-2015 Directivity, Gain and Resolution

8. 17-07-2015 Antenna Apertures

9. 20-07-2015 Antenna efficiency, Effective Height

10. 21-07-2015 Related Problems

11. 23-07-2015 Retarded vector potentials

12. 24-07-2015 Short Electric Dipole-Field Equations

13. 25-07-2015 Radiation resistance

14. 27-07-2015 Half wave dipole-Field Equations

15. 28-07-2015 Current pattern

16. 30-07-2015 Power Radiated, radiation resistance

17. 31-07-2015 Beam widths, Directivity

18. 01-08-2015 Effective Area and Effective Height

03-08-2015
19. Radiation Resistance at a point which is not current maximum.
Lecture
Date Topics to be Covered
No
20. 04-08-2015 Related Problems

UNIT – II

Antennas
Introduction to Small Loop Antenna, Comparison of far fields of
21. 06-08-2015
small loop and short dipole
22. 07-08-2015 Loop antenna general case

23. 10-08-2015 Far field pattern of circular loop antenna with uniform current

24. 11-08-2015 Small loop as special case, Radiation resistance of loop

25. 13-08-2015 Directivity of circular loop antenna with uniform current

Antenna Arrays

26. 14-08-2015 Introduction to Arrays, Two element arrays

27. 17-08-2015 Multiplication of patterns

Linear Array with n -isotropic point sources of equal amplitude

28. 18-08-2015
and spacing (Broadside & End fire Arrays)
29. 20-08-2015 EFA with Increased Directivity

30. 21-08-2015 Scanning Arrays, N - element linear array and directivity

31. 22-08-2015 Binomial Arrays- Uniform spacing and Non-uniform Amplitude.

UNIT – III

Non Resonant Radiators

32. 27-08-2015 Introduction to Long wire antennas

33. 28-08-2015 V-antennas

34. 29-08-2015 Inverted V-Antenna

35. 31-08-2015 Rhombic Antennas and Design Relations

36. 01-09-2015 Related Problems

37. 03-09-2015 Introduction to Traveling wave antenna

38. 04-09-2015 Traveling wave antenna patterns

Broadband Antennas

39. 07-09-2015 The Helical Antennas - Significance

40. 08-09-2015 Geometry, helix modes

Lecture
Date Topics to be Covered
No
Practical design considerations for Monofilar axial mode helical
41. 10-09-2015
antenna, Related Problems
42 14-09-2015 linear polarization with monofilar axial mode helical antenna

UNIT – IV

VHF, UHF AND Microwave Antennas

Dipole array with Parasitic Elements, Folded Dipoles & their
43 15-09-2015
characteristics
44 18-09-2015 Yagi-Uda Antenna

45 19-09-2015 Reflector Antennas : Flat Sheet and Corner Reflectors

Paraboloidal Reflectors –Beam formation, Types of parabolic

46 21-09-2015
reflectors
47 22-09-2015 F/D Ratio, Spill Over, Back Lobes, Aperture Blocking, Feed systems

Horn Antennas – Types, Optimum Horns, Design Characteristics of

48 25-09-2015
Pyramidal Horns
49 26-09-2015 Lens Antennas – principle, types of lens antenna

Non metallic dielectric lens antenna, primary feed and its uses,
50 28-09-2015 E –plane metal plate lens antenna

Antenna Measurements – Patterns measurement-arrangement

51 29-09-2015
for radiation pattern, Distance requirements
52 01-10-2015 Directivity and Gain Measurements

53 03-10-2015 Introduction to Microstrip antennas

UNIT – V

Wave Propagation

54 05-10-2015 Introduction, classification, modes of Propagation

Ground Wave Propagation–Characteristics, Parameters, Wave Tilt,

55 06-10-2015
Flat and Spherical Earth Considerations
Sky Wave Propagation – Formation of Ionospheric Layers and
56 08-10-2015
their Characteristics
57 09-10-2015 Mechanism of Reflection and Refraction

58 12-10-2015 Critical Frequency, Virtual Height

59 13-10-2015 MUF , LUHF, Skip Distance, Optimum working Frequency

Ionospheric Abnormalities, Ionospheric Absorption , Multi-hop

60 15-10-2015
propagation
61 16-10-2015 Space Wave Propagation – LOS

62 26-10-2015 Tropospheric Wave Propagation – Radius of Curvature of path,

Lecture
Date Topics to be Covered
No
Effective Earth’s Radius
63 27-10-2015 Effect of Earth’s Curvature

64 29-10-2015 Noise definition, Types of noise, Field Strength Calculations

65 30-10-2015 Duct Propagation (M-curves)

66 31-10-2015 Related Problems