Antennas and propagation (Lectures)

Lecturer: prof. dr. Matjaž Vidmar, Production: as. dr. Aljaž Blatnik

Lecture 1: Coordinates, Maxwell and radiation

Lecture 2: Directivity, gain, Friis, Rayleigh, phase center

Lecture 3: Ferrite antenna, thin-wire antenna, half-wave dipole

Lecture 4: Electromagnetic Huygens source, aperture directivity

Lecture 5: Waveguide horns, slow-wave structures

Lecture 6: Mirror antennas

Lecture 7: Antenna arrays

Lecture 8: Numerical electromagnetic simulation of antennas

Lecture 9: Polarization and thermal noise

Lecture 10: Electromagnetic-wave diffraction

Lecture 11: Electromagnetic-wave reflection

Lecture 12: Tropospheric absorption and refraction

Lecture 13: Atmospheric precipitations and ionosphere

Lecture 14: Radio-signal fading

Lecture 15: Multipath distortion and MIMO