Chapter 1Antenna parameters
1.1Radiation power density and Radiation intensity
1.1.1Radiation power density
1.1.2Radiation intensity
1.2Directivity and Gain
1.2.1Directivity
1.2.2Gain
1.3Beam solid angle
1.4Field regions
1.5Patterns
1.5.1Pattern description
1.5.2halfpowerbeamwidth HPBW
1.5.3firstnull beamwidth FNBW
1.5.4Directivity estimation
1.5.5Sidelobelevel
1.5.6Distinction of dB
1.6Effective length and effective area
1.6.1Effective length
1.6.2Effective area
1.7Antenna impedance
1.7.1Input impedance
1.7.2Voltage standing wave ratio(VSWR)
1.8Band width
1.9Polarization
1.10Equivalent radiation power
1.11Fries transmission formula
1.12Receiving antenna
1.12.1Receiving voltage
1.12.2Antenna factor
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Chapter 2Theoretical basis of antenna polarization
ⅩⅦ2.1Polarization properties of wave
2.1.1Plane electromagnetic wave electric field vector
2.1.2Linear polarization
2.1.3Circular polarization
2.1.4Elliptical polarized wave
2.2Polarization ellipse angle
2.3Axial ratio
2.4Polarization ratio
2.4.1Linear polarization ratio
2.4.2Circular polarization ratio
2.5Circularly polarized component synthesis
2.5.1Derivation of elliptic equation
2.5.2Rotational synthesis of orthogonal circular polarized waves
2.6Polarization loss
2.6.1Polarization ratio and polarization efficiency
2.6.2Axial ratio and polarization efficiency
2.7Cross polarization
2.7.1Cross polarization discrimination
2.7.2Cross polarization isolation
2.7.3Calculation of antenna cross polarization
2.8Circularly polarized antenna
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Chapter 3Cross dipole circular polarized antennas
3.1Cross dipole antenna
3.1.1Dipole antenna
3.1.2Cross dipole circular polarized antenna
3.2Self phase shifted cross dipole antenna fed by Balun
3.2.1Balun feed structure
3.2.2Gain and beam width control
3.2.3Design examples of self phase shifted cross dipole
antenna
3.3Printed self phase shifted cross dipole antenna
3.3.1Design procedure of a miniature printed cross dipole
antenna
3.3.2Antenna parameter analysis
3.3.3Antenna testing and discussion
3.4Wide band cross dipole circular polarized antenna
3.4.1Broadband principle of circularly polarized antenna with
cross dipole antenna
3.4.2Design example of a circular polarized antenna with
broadband cross dipole
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ⅩⅧChapter 4Microstrip circularly polarized antennas
4.1Principle and realization method of microstrip circular
polarization antenna
4.1.1Single probe feed
4.1.2Microstrip line feed
4.1.3Aperture coupled feed
4.1.4Multi probes feed
4.2Circular polarized microstrip antenna with single probefeed
4.2.1Truncated squarecircular polarized microstrip antenna
4.2.2Slot loaded single band circularly polarized microstrip
antenna
4.2.3Slot loaded single band circularly polarized microstrip
antenna
4.2.4Stub loaded circularly polarized microstrip antenna
4.3Stacked circularly polarized microstrip antenna with single
probe feed
4.3.1Stacked circularly polarized microstrip antenna with
truncated squre patches
4.3.2Stacked circularly polarized microstrip antenna with
almost squre patches
4.3.3Stacked circularly polarized microstrip antenna with
truncatedcircular patches
4.4Circularly polarized microstrip antenna withmicrostrip line feed
4.4.1Circularly polarized microstrip antenna withmicrostrip
linefeed
4.4.2Circularly polarized microstrip antenna with microstrip
line coupled feed
4.4.3Circularly polarized microstrip antenna with coplanar
waveguide feed
4.4.4Circularly polarized microstrip antenna with aperture
coupled feed
4.5Circular polarized microstrip antenna with networkfeed
4.5.1Circular polarized microstrip antenna with double H
shaped slot coupled feed
4.5.2Circular polarized microstrip antenna with multi L
shaped probe feeds
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ⅩⅨChapter 5Helical antennas
5.1Basic structure of helical antenna
5.2Axial mode helical antenna
5.2.1Principle of circular polarization
5.2.2Phase difference between units
5.2.3Radiation pattern
5.2.4Antenna design
5.2.5Parameters analysis
5.3Modified axial mode helical antenna
5.3.1Taperedend helical antenna
5.3.2Taper helical antenna
5.3.3Nonuniform diameter helical antenna
5.4Helicalantennawith back cavity
5.5Normal mode helical antenna
5.6Multi arm helical antenna
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Chapter 6Quadrifilarhelix antennas
6.1Principle of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.1.1Structure of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.1.2Radiation field of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.2Parameters analysis of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.2.1Axial length and number of turns on the properties of
quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.2.2Rotation angle on the properties of quadrifilarhelix
antenna
6.2.3Radius and pitch ratio on the pattern of quadrifilarhelix
antenna
6.3Realizationof quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.3.1Quadrifilarhelix antennawith self phase shift
6.3.2Quadrifilarhelix antennawith phase shift network feed
6.4Research direction of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.4.1Miniaturized quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.4.2Wide band quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.4.3Double band quadrifilarhelix antenna
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ⅩⅩChapter 7Frequency independent circularly polarizedantennas
7.1Principle of frequency independentantennas
7.2Planar Archimedes spiral antenna
7.2.1Antenna structure
7.2.2Electrical properties
7.2.3Design examples
7.3The planar equiangular spiral antenna
7.3.1Antenna structure
7.3.2Electrical properties
7.3.3Design examples
7.4Conical log spiral antenna
7.4.1Antenna structure
7.4.2Electrical properties
7.4.3Design examples
7.5Other types offrequency independentantennas
7.5.1Log periodic circular polarized antenna
7.5.2Sinuouscircular polarized antenna
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Chapter 8Circular polarized horn antennas
8.1Circular polarizer type
8.1.1Screw circular polarizer
8.1.2Diaphragm circular polarizer
8.1.3Bafflecircular polarizer
8.1.4Dielectric platecircular polarizer
8.1.5Resonant cavitycircular polarizer
8.2Commonhorn antenna
8.2.1Dual mode conical horn antenna
8.2.2Multimode conical horn antenna
8.2.3Corrugated horn antenna
8.3Circular polarized horn antenna design
8.3.1Design of bafflecircular polarizer
8.3.2Design of dual mode conical horn antenna
8.3.3Simulation results of double circular polarized & doublemode
conical horn antenna
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ⅩⅩⅠChapter 9Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas
9.1Omnidirectional radiation with circular array of directional
circularly polarized antenna element
9.1.1Conformal omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna
constructed by patch antenna
9.1.2A broadband omnidirectional circularly polarized
antenna
9.2Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennaarrayed with
omnidirectional radiation elements
9.2.1Omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna with an
inclined or bent dipoles
9.2.2Omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna with
helical antenna
9.2.3Omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna composed
of bent monopole antennas
9.3Other forms of omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas
9.3.1Omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna based on
zero order resonant antenna
9.3.2Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennawith circularly
polarized wave feed
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Chapter 10Circularly polarized radial line array antenna
10.1Structure and basic principle of radial line antenna
10.1.1Structure and of radial line antenna
10.1.2Radial transmission mode
10.1.3Concentric ring array theory
ⅩⅩⅡ10.2Design of circular polarized radial line array antenna
10.2.1Antenna geometry
10.2.2Relationship between slow wave structure and waveguide
structure
10.2.3Aperture field distribution
10.2.4Derivation of position alignment of gap
10.2.5Realization of dual circular polarized radial slot array
antenna
10.2.6Circularly polarized radial line helical array antenna
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