Antennas and Radiating Systems
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Antennas and Radiating Systems Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Antennas and Radiating Systems (subject code 3712707) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 1 divides the course into 9 units, covering 59 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3712707)Unit 1 Review of Antenna Theory
- Fundamental theory of antennas: Reciprocity theorem
- Antenna equivalent circuit
- Classification of antennas
- Special types of Antennas for different frequency bands
Unit 2 Antenna Parameters
- Radiation Impedance
- Radiation Pattern
- Antenna Impedance
- Antenna efficiency
- Radiation Efficiency
- Antenna Polarization
- Antenna Vector effective length
- Antenna Apertures
- Antenna temperature
- near-field and far-field concepts, and radiation mechanism
- Input Impedance
- Friis Transmission equation
Unit 3 Arrays
- Planar, and Circular Two-Element Array N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Amplitude and Spacing N Element Linear Array: Directivity DesignProcedure
- N Element Linear Array :Three-Dimensional Characteristics Rectangular-to-Polar Graphical Solution
- Broadside and End fire array
- N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Spacing
- Super directivity
- Binomial Array Amplitude
- Planar and Circular Arrays
Unit 4 Antenna synthesis
- Introduction to various methods of antenna synthesis such as Schelkunoff Polynomial
- Fourier transform
- Woodward Lawson.Dolph-Chebyshev
- Cosine, and Cosine-Squared Amplitude Distributions
Unit 5 Microstrip Antennas
- Rectangular and Circular Patch
- Quality Factor
- Bandwidth, and Efficiency
- Input Impedance
- Circular Polarization
- Arrays and Feed Networks
- Multi Band
- Recent advances in fractal antenna and patch array
- Applications in Wireless and Satellite communication
- electromagnetic effects in high speed digital circuits
- Electromagnetic hazards and the environment
Unit 6 Horn and Reflector antenna
- Horn Antennas - Rectangular Horn (Pyramidal)
- Circular Aperture Horn
- 4 Circular (Conical) Corrugated Horn Reflector Antennas - Paraboloidal Reflector Geometry
- Dual Reflector Antennas and feeds
- Spherical Reflector
- Shaped Reflectors
- Introduction to MIMO
Unit 7 Phased arrays
- Fixed Phase Shifters or Phasers
- Non-uniform and Random Element Existence Arrays
- Feed Networks
- Adaptive Antenna & Digital beam forming
- smart antenna for wireless communication
Unit 8 Antenna Analysis
- Introduction to antenna analysis methods: Integral equation method
- Moment method
- Finite Difference Time Domain methods
- Applications of these methods to the practical antennas such as dipole
- microstrip patch, and PIFA
Unit 9 Antenna Optimization Techniques
- Various optimization techniques (OT) such as Genetic algorithm
- Artificial Intelligence
- Fuzzy logic
- Comparative analysis of the OT’s for particular application and antenna type
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