ECEN 482/882: Antennas and Radio Propagation for Wireless Communications
Semester: Fall 2024.
When: Tuesday/Thursday 12:00–1:15 PM
Potential Students:
1) Senior Undergraduate and master's students pursuing job opportunities in radiofrequency design, antennas, and circuits.
2) Graduate Ph.D. students with research interests in communication, radio frequency and antennas.
Credits: 3 (+1 Optional)
Instructor: Dr. Shubhendu Bhardwaj, Sec 290bb
*Pre-requisites will be waived for this semester’s offering. Please contact the professor.
Description: Antennas and Radio Propagation for Wireless Communications will cover theory and design of antennas used in wireless communication, and integrated circuits. The course will include study of fundamental principles of radiation, solution of maxwell’s equation, and study of dielectric and metal structures that can radiate applied RF signal in the form of electromagnetic. An exponential explosion in information transmission and data-boom is based on last mile connectivity through wireless links provided through a wide range of electromagnetic structures. The class will broadly introduce antenna theory and dive into design and applications of antennas. The course will use electromagnetic full-wave simulation tools (Altair-FEKO and/or Ansys HFSS). The course will use assignments which are based on using these simulation tools. There will be two midterm tests and one final project based in this course.
Specific topics covered in this class would be a basics of EM radiation theory, spherical wavefronts, power loss, monopole antennas, dipole, patch, slot, antennas and this will be leading up to large aperture antennas, horn antennas antenna-arrays
and more.
Contact Prof. Shubhendu (Shoe-ben-do) Bhardwaj (bhardwaj@unl.edu) for more information.