Phased Array Antennas - Hardcover

Hansen, Robert C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470401028 ISBN 13: 9780470401026

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2009

Synopsis

An in-depth treatment of array phenomena and all aspects of phased array analysis and design

Phased Array Antennas, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference on the vastly evolving field of array antennas. The Second Edition continues to provide an in-depth evaluation of array phenomena with a new emphasis on developments that have occurred in the field over the past decade. The book offers the same detailed coverage of all practical and theoretical aspects of phased arrays as the first edition, but it now includes:

• New chapters on array-fed reflector antennas; connected arrays; and reflect arrays and retrodirective arrays

• Brand-new coverage of artificial magnetic conductors, and Bode matching limitations

• A clear explanation of the common misunderstanding of scan element pattern measurement, along with appropriate equations

• In-depth coverage of finite array Gibbsian models, photonic feeding and time delay, waveguide simulators, and beam orthogonality

The book is complemented with a multitude of original curves and tables that illustrate how particular behaviors were derived from the author's hundreds of programs developed over the past forty years. Additionally, numerous computer design algorithms and numerical tips are included throughout the book to help aid in readers' comprehension. Phased Array Antennas, Second Edition is an ideal resource for antenna design engineers, radar engineers, PCS engineers, and communications engineers, or any professional who works to develop radar and telecommunications systems. It also serves as a valuable textbook for courses in phased array design and theory at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels.

About this title

From the Publisher

Phased array antennas have many important applications, including radar uses in airport surveillance and missile detection and tracking, as well as applications in personal communication systems and in satellite communications. This book will be the definitive reference on phased arrays. It is written from the standpoint of a practicing design engineer, but with the analytical and theoretical understanding to provide an in-depth evaluation of array phenomena and all aspects of phased array analysis and design.

From the Back Cover

The first complete guide to phased array design and theory in more than thirty years--destined to become the standard reference in the field well into the twenty-first century

The past twenty years have witnessed significant breakthroughs in our understanding of the principles behind phased array antennas and in their design and application. Yet not since R. C. Hansen's 1966 classic, Microwave Scanning Antennas, has there been a comprehensive reference in the field. Phased Array Antennas fills the gap in the professional literature.

Phased Array Antennas is geared to the interests of both the practicing design engineer and the antenna array analyst. Written by an internationally recognized expert with more than four decades of experience in the field, it offers detailed coverage of all practical and theoretical aspects of phased arrays--from quantization lobes and low sidelobe pattern design and measurement to superdirectivity and HTS antennas and frequency scanners. It also provides in-depth coverage of topics such as finite array Gibbsian models, photonic feeding and time delay, waveguide simulators, and beam orthogonality. A multitude of original curves and tables show particular behaviors derived from hundreds of programs developed by the author over the past twenty years, and numerous computer design algorithms and numerical tips are found throughout the book.

Phased Array Antennas is an indispensable tool-of-the-trade for antenna design engineers, radar engineers, PCS engineers, and communications engineers. It also serves as a complete text in phased array design and theory for advanced undergraduate-and graduate-level courses in electronics and communications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470401028
• ISBN 13: 9780470401026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 576