Beschreibung:
Ronold W. P. King is the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus at Harvard University, USA. Since joining the Harvard faculty in 1938, he has supervised the research of over 100 Ph.D. students. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE; a Fellow of the American Physical Society; and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin (1973), the Centennial Medal of the IEEE (1985), the Harold Pender Award from the University of Pennsylvania (1986), the Distinguished Achievement Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (1991), and the IEEE Graduate Teaching Award (1997).
Explains how to design, analyse and test cylindrical antenna arrays from a practical engineering standpoint.
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. An approximate analysis of the cylindrical antenna; 3. The two-element array; 4. The circular array; 5. The circuit and radiating properties of curtain arrays; 6. Arrays with unequal elements: parasitic and log-periodic antennas; 7. Planar and three-dimensional arrays; 8. Vertical dipoles on and over the earth or sea; 9. Dipoles parallel to the plane boundaries of layered regions; horizontal dipole over, on, and in the earth or sea; 10. Application of the two-term theory to general arrays of parallel non-staggered elements; 11. Resonances in large circular arrays of perfectly conducting dipoles; 12. Resonances in large circular arrays of highly conducting dipoles; 13. Direct numerical methods: a detailed discussion; 14. Techniques and theory of measurements; Appendices; References; List of symbols; Index.