Antenna Analysis and Design using FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software

This supplemental text and personal reference provides a comprehensive tutorial for analysis and design of a wide variety of antenna configurations. Various antenna types will be studied, starting from simple configurations such as dipoles and loops and eventually leading to more complicated and practical designs such as broadband microstrip patches and high-gain reflector antennas. All design types will be simulated on FEKO, a widely used and readily available (free license to universities) simulation software program for electromagnetics, particularly antennas.

Atef Z. Elsherbeni received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Manitoba University, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1987. He joined the University of Mississippi in August 1987 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He advanced to the Associate Professor rank on July 1991, and to the Professor rank on July 1997. At the University of Mississippi, he was also the director of the School of Engineering CAD Lab from August 2002 to August 2013, the director of the Center for Applied Electromagnetic Systems Research (CAESR) from July 2011 to August 2013, and the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Programs from 2009 to 2013. He was appointed as Adjunct Professor at The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in January 2004. He spent a sabbatical term in 1996 at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and was a visiting Prof essor at Magdeburg University, in Germany during the summer of 2005 and at Tampere University of Technology in Finland during the summer of 2007. He was a Finland Distinguished Professor from 2009 to 2011. Dr. Elsherbeni became the Dobelman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines in August 2013. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a fellow member of The Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES), and the Editor-in-Chief for ACES Journal.

Payam Nayeri received his B.S. in applied physics from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, in 2004, his M.S. in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, in 2007, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi, in 2012. In January 2014 he became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines. His research interests include array and reflect-array antennas, reflector and lens antennas, multi-beam and beam-scanning arrays, microstrip antennas, computational methods, and optimization in electromagnetics, and antenna measurement techniques.Dr Nayeri is a member of IEEE and ACES and has coauthored more than 40 technical journal and conference papers.

C.J. Reddy is President of EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc. based in Hampton, Virginia. He is also the President of Applied EM, Inc. specializing in innovative antenna designs. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, as well as a Fellow of ACES.