1st Edition

Monopole Antennas

By Melvin M. Weiner Copyright 2003
    768 Pages
    by CRC Press

    "Monopole Antennas" provides an industry standard for the modeling, testing, and application of airborne and ground-based monopole antennas. This book, with more than double the content of the author's previous, sold-out book, "Monopole Elements on Circular Ground Planes", includes structures in proximity to flat Earth in addition to those in free space of the earlier book. It also features state-of-the-art numerical methods, including Richmond's method of moments for disk ground planes and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's Numerical Electomagnetic Code for radial-wire ground planes.

    Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Monopole Elements on Disk Ground Planes in Free Space, 1: Introduction, 2: Circuit Representation, 3: Models in Which the Current Distribution on the Monopole Element is Initially Known, 4: Models in Which the Current Distributions on the Monopole Element and Ground Plane Are Both Initially Unknown, 5: Comparison with Experimental Results, 6: Applications Utilizing Electrically Small Elements, Part II: Monopole Elements on Disk, Radial-Wire, and Mesh Ground Planes in Proximity to Flat Earth, 7: Influence of Proximity to Earth, 8: Characterization of Antenna Parameters, 9: Models in the Absence of a Ground Plane, 10: Disk Ground Planes, 11: Radial-Wire Ground Planes, 12: Wire-Mesh Ground Planes, 13: System Performance, Appendix A: Computer Plots and Printouts of Numerical Results, Appendix B: Computer Programs, Appendix C: Evaluation of Sommerfeld-King Integrals for Surface-Wave Fields, Appendix D: Beam Pointing Errors Caused by a Nonhomogeneous Earth, References, Index

    Biography

    Melvin M. Weiner is a retired Member of the Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts. The author of numerous professional publications, he holds five patents and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He received the B.S. (1956) and M.S. (1956) degrees in electrical engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.