Fundamentals of Aperture Antennas and Arrays

Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, this book is intended as an advanced text for courses in antennas, with a focus on the mature but vital background field of aperture antennas. It is aimed at final year, MSc, PhD and post-doctoral students, as well as readers who are moving from academia into industry, beginning careers as wireless engineers, system designers, in R&D, or for practising engineers.
It assumes the reader has undertaken an earlier course of study on Maxwell's equations, fields and waves. Some of these topics are summarized in the early few chapters in order to provide continuity and background for the remaining chapters. The aperture antennas covered include the main types of horns, reflectors and arrays as well as microstrip patches, reflectarrays and lenses. To provide more than a superficial treatment of arrays, the topic of mutual coupling is covered in greater detail compared to most similar books in this area. Also included is an introduction to arrays on non-planar surfaces, which are important in applications that involve curved surfaces such as in aerodynamics or for making aperture antennas unobtrusive. A chapter is included on some modern aperture antennas to illustrate design techniques beyond the most common types of aperture antennas described in the early chapters. This is to show where advances have recently been made and where they could be improved in the future. Also included are selective topics that are practical in nature for aperture antennas, namely fabrication and measurement.

Trevor S. Bird PhD, FTSE, Principal Antengenuity, Adjunct Professor Macquarie University & Honorary CSIRO Fellow, Australia.