Cylindrical Antennas and Arrays

Cylindrical arrays lie at the heart of the antenna systems of most major radio communication systems, including broadcasting networks, cellular 'phone systems and radar. In this book, the authors present practical theoretical methods for determining current distributions, input admittances and field patterns of a wide variety of cylindrical antennas, including the isolated antenna, the two-element array, the circular array, curtain arrays, Yagi and log-periodic arrays, planar arrays and three-dimensional arrays. Coverage includes analysis of horizontal antennas over, on and in the earth and sea, large resonant arrays of electrically short dipoles and a chapter on the theory and techniques of experimental measurement. Written by three of the leading engineers in the field, and based on world-class research carried out at Harvard over the last forty years, Cylindrical Antennas and Arrays is destined to become established as the basic reference for practising engineers and advanced students for many years to come.

The definitive book on the most widely used antenna technology
Lead author, King, has over 40 years experience based at world-leading labs at Harvard
Practical, professional engineering approach

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Published: August 2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521017862
Length: 652 pages
Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 35 mm
Weight: 1.002kg
Contains: 230 b/w illus. 40 tables
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Contents

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.

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Ronold W. P. King , Harvard University, Massachusetts
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).
George J. Fikioris , National Technical University of Athens
George J. Fikioris is a researcher at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1993 he worked for six years as an electronics engineer at the Airforce Research Labratory, Hanscomb, USA before joining the NTUA faculty in 1999.
Richard B. Mack
Richard B. Mack is a consultant at his own company, Mack Consulting, where he specialises in electromagnetic measurement techniques.

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