Antennas: for all applications/ John D.Kraus, Ronald J.Marhefka and Ahmad S. Khan

Includes Index

Introduction -- Antennas Basics -- The Antenna Family --Point Sources and Their Arrays -- Electric Dipoles, Thin Linear Antennas and Arrays of Dipoles and Apertures -- Loop,Slot,Patch and Horn,Antennas -- Helical Antennas -- Reflector Antennas -- Broadband and Frequency-Independent Antennas -- Antenna Temperature, Remote Sensing and Radar Cross Section -- Self and Mutual Impedance's -- The Cylindrical Antenna and the Moment Method(MM) -- The Fourier Transform Relation between Aperture Distribution and Far-Field Pattern -- Lens Antennas -- Frequency-Selective Surfaces and Periodic Structures -- Practical Design Considerations of Large Aperture Antennas 600 -- Antennas for special Applications -- Baluns, etc. -- Antenna Measurement -- Antennas Array Analysis and Synthesis