ELECTRICALLY SMALL, SUPERDIRECTIVE, AND SUPERCONDUCTING ANTENNAS


R. C. HANSEN


Table of Contents

 

1.0 ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS


1.1 Introduction


1.2 Fundamental Limitations


1.3 Electrically Small Antennas: Canonical Types


1.4 Clever Physics, but Bad Numbers

  

1.5 Pathological Antennas


1.6 ESA Summary


References

Author Index



2.0 SUPERDIRECTIVE ANTENNAS


2.1 History and Motivation


2.2 Maximum Directivity


2.3 Constrained Superdirectivity


2.4 Bandwidth, Efficiency, and Tolerances


2.5 Miscellaneous Superdirectivity


2.6 Matching Circuit Loss Magnification


2.6 Non-Foster Matching Circuits


2.8 SD Antenna Summary


References

Author Index



3.0 SUPERCONDUCTING ANTENNAS



3.1 Introduction


3.2 Superconductivity Concepts for Engineers


   3.3 Dipole, Loop, and Patch Antennas

   

3.4 Phasers and Delay Lines


3.5 SC Antenna Summary


References

Author Index


book index

 

return

 

 

index