Fall 2015

W 7:30-10:30 A.M.

INEL 6668
Instructor: Rafael A. Rodríguez Solís
E-Mail: rafael.rodriguez19@upr.edu
Web: http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~rafaelr
Phone: 787-832-4040, x-2141

Microwave Antenna Engineering Office: SA-508

Office Hours: W 1:30-3:00 P.M.

Description Materials
Three credit-hours. Microwave and millimeter-wave antenna design and analysis
Instructor notes, Ansys Electronic
techniques. Antenna elements and arrays in microstrip technology, array pattern
Desktop, Matlab.
synthesis, broadbanding techniques, numerical methods, adaptive antennas.

General Objectives Topics

Present in detail microwave and millimeter-wave antenna technology to prepare 3 hours
students to start in the research and development of antenna systems, and to Introduction and Review
provide them with the necessary tools to analyze and evaluate microwave antenna
systems. 10.5 hours
Microstrip patches (rectangular,
Requirements circular)
1. One and two-port networks; S-parameters.
7.5 hours
2. Antenna fundamental parameters. Slot antennas (rectangular slot, folded
3. Radiation mechanisms slot, annular slot, tapered slot)

4.5 hours
Evaluation Circular polarization techniques
Several short design assignments using Ansoft’s Designer or Agilent’s Momentum (single feed, orthogonal feed,
method of moments EM CAD simulation tools, Ansoft’s HFSS finite element bandwidth enhancement)
method simulation EM CAD tool, and Matlab (100%). Late assignments will not
be accepted. 7.5 hours
Broadband antennas (matching, multi-
References moding, multi-frequency operation)

R. Garg, P. Bhartia, I. Bahl, A. Ittipiboon, Microstrip Antenna Design Handbook, 6 hours

Artech House, Boston, 2001 Arrays (design, feed systems, mutual
C. A. Balanis, Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design, 3rd ed, John Wiley and coupling, waveguide simulator,
Sons, NY, 2006 architecture, blindness)
G. Kumar, K.P. Ray,
W. L. Stutzman, G. A. Thiele, Antenna Theory and Design, 2nd ed, John Wiley 6 hours
and Sons, NY, 1998
Pattern synthesis (Fourier transform,
M. Sadiku, Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics, CRC Press, FL, 1992.
Woodward-Lawson, Schelkunov)
R. Mailloux, Phased Array Antenna Handbook, 2nd ed, Artech House, Boston,
2005

Microwave Antenna Engineering 1