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Instructor Information
Zhengqing (ZQ) YunHawaii Center for Advanced Communications (HCAC)
Office: POST 201B
Phone: 6-0759
Email: [email protected]://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~zqyun/courses/ee47415.html
Textbooks
Iskander: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
Balanis: Antenna Theory
Bertoni: Radio Propagation for Modern Wireless Systems
Others: John Krauss, Warren Stutzman, etc.
Contents EM Field and Waves:
Maxwell's Equations Polarization Vector Potentials Radiation Near/Far-field concept
Antenna Parameters: Radiation Pattern Power Density, Intensity Beamwidth, Directivity, Gain,
Efficiency, Bandwidth Input Impedance
Linear Antennas: Infinitesimal and Short Dipoles Linear Wire Antennas Half-Wavelength Dipoles Ground Effects
Loop Antennas: Circular Loop Antennas Other shapes
Array Antennas: Sum of Coherent Waves Two-Element Arrays N-Element Arrays Design Procedure
Contents Integral Equations and
Numerical Method: Integral Equations Method of Moments Self- and Mutual-Impedance
Broadband and Frequency Independent Antennas: Biconical Antennas Spiral Antennas Log Periodic Antennas Fractal Antennas
Aperture and Horn Antennas: Huygens Principle Rectangular Aperture Circular Aperture Fourier Transform and
Applications Edge Effect Due to Diffraction
Reflector Antennas: Plane Reflector Corner Reflector Parabolic Reflector
Microstrip Antennas: Patches Circular Polarization
Contents Radio Propagation for
Wireless Communications: Wireless Communications
Links and Cellular Systems Large-scale path loss Small-scale fading and
multipath Free Space Propagation Empirical Propagation
Modeling
Ray-Tracing and Applications for Site-Specific Propagation Prediction: Background Ray Tracing Algorithms New efficient ray tracing methods Propagation modeling in urban
environments Ray tracing in atmosphere
Exploitation of geospatial resources for propagation prediction: NASA's WorldWind; Microsoft's
Virtual Earth; Google Earth Ray tracing in Google Earth