| Educational guide School of Engineering |
english |
| Bach. Degree in Telecommunication Systems and Services Engineering (2016) |
 Subjects |
| ANTENNAS AND RADIO PROPAGATION |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2021_22 |
| Subject | ANTENNAS AND RADIO PROPAGATION | Code | 17244119 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Third | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1-Antennas in communication systems. |
1.1-Definition Antenna 1.2-Antenna parameters. Impedance - available power reflection coefficient - radiated power - ohmic loss - radiation resistance - efficiency - resonant antenna - notion of BW. 1.3-Radiation parameters Directivity - Gain - radiation pattern - Area effective - effective length. Polarization. 1.4-Transmission equation. 1.5-Diffraction and reflection on the ground. 1.6. Noise. Brightness temperature and antenna temperature. Signal to noise ratio. |
| 2-Fundamentals of radiation | 2.1-Radiation sources. Fresnel and Fraunhofer zones. 2.2-Description of elementary dipole. 2.3 Radiation vector. 2.4-Generalization of calculation of antenna parameters. |
| 3-Elementary antennas: dipoles and loops | 3.1. Dipole and loop antena. 3.2. Dipole-monopole ratio. Effect of soil. 3.3. Systems feeds. 3.4. Introduction of the concept of array of two dipoles. Mutual impedance. 3.5. Yagi antenna. |
| 4-Antenna arrays. | 4.1-Array types. 4.2-Array factor. Array Polynomial. Visible range. 4.3-Arrays and typical features. Uniform triangular binomial. 4,4-Synthesis of arrays. Fourier methods and zeros. 4.5-Introduction to 2D antenna arrays. |
| 5-Horn and reflector antennas | 5.1 Generalization of the radiation vector for apertures. 5.2 Elementary aperture antenna 5.3-Horn antennas 5.3-Microstrip antennas 5.4-Reflectors and lens antennas. |
| 6-Antenna characterization techniques | 6.1-Measurement systems in far and near field. Anechoic chamber. 6.2-measureemnt of pattern diagram, impedance, polarization and efficiency. Measurement of radar cross section. |
