Handbook of Antennas for EMC

The Handbook of Antennas for EMC provides a thorough overview of both the practical and theoretical aspects of antennas in EMC systems and helps you improve your understanding of the nature and uses of antennas in these systems. The treatment throughout is sensitive to the needs of the practicing engineer, providing summaries of the underlying mathematics, while avoiding the theoretical emphasis that characterizes much of the existing literature.

Part 1 Introduction to antennas: requirements of an antenna for EMC; main characteristics of an antenna. Part 2 Basic mathematics for EMC engineers: angles; basic trigonometry; powers, indices, and logarithms; real and complex numbers; scalars and vectors; Fourier analysis and transforms; parameters; fundamental units and dimensions. Part 3 Antenna theory: unit vectors; scalar and vector fields; Maxwell's equations; boundary conditions; fields due to a radiating dipole; power flux density for a plane wave; wave impedance for a plane wave; radiation resistance; far field of antennas. Part 4 Antennas for frequencies below 1 MHz: mechanism of radiation; near and far fields of antennas; wave impedance; difference between receive and transmit antennas; small antennas; baluns; radiation power factor; matching antennas; effective length and effective height; E field antennas; H field antennas. Part 5 Antennas for frequencies between 1 MHz and 1 GHz: resonant monopoles; discone; cavitenna; resonant and large dipoles; folded dipoles; triangular dipoles; biconical; Yagi-Uda; frequency independent (FI) antennas; log periodic antenna; bilog; helical antennas; large and resonant loops; double-ridged horns. Part 6 Antennas for frequencies above 1 GHz: band theory; log spiral; archimedes spiral; microstrip planar spiral; discone antenna; double-ridged horns. Part 7 Calibration of antennas: gain; calculation of gain; antenna correction factor. Part 8 List of acronyms and abbreviations: useful tables and conversion factors.