The Latest Resource for the Study of Antenna Theory! In a discipline that has experienced vast technological changes, this text offers the most recent look at all the necessary topics. Highlights include: * New coverage of microstrip antennas provides information essential to a wide variety of practical designs of rectangular and circular patches, including computer programs. * Applications of Fourier transform (spectral) method to antenna radiation. * Updated material on moment methods, radar cross section, mutual impedances, aperture and horn antennas, compact range designs, and antenna measurements. A New Emphasis on Design! Balanis features a tremendous increase in design procedures and equations. This presents a solid solution to the challenge of meeting real-life situations faced by engineers. Computer programs contained in the book-and accompanying software-have been developed to help engineers analyze, design, and visualize the radiation characteristics of antennas.
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Customer Rating: Summary: Antenna bible Comment: The best book on Antenna theory. Covers pretty much all types of Antennas. Has a good list of reference for further exploration in each chapter. Indispensable if you are into Antennas!. You should have a copy of Balanis' other book "Advanced engineering electromagnetics".We covered pretty much the whole book in graduate antenna course here in UC,Boulder.
But beware, if you want to clearly understand the stuff in this book, you should have sound background in undergraduate EM, vector calculus and complex algebra. Otherwise do not complain, this is NOT A COOK BOOK FOR AN ANTENNA TECHNICIAN.Thats not the purpose of the book. Customer Rating: Summary: review Comment: It was a very nice book. there was no difference between it as a used book and a new one. Customer Rating: Summary: agree w/ scissor & paste [ EE grad student (physics & matl eng background)] Comment: Obviously from the other reviewers this book has collected a lot of very good antenna information. However, reading this book as a student new to the subject, I regularly found myself mislead or just simply lost. I know this can be a result of the subject matter (always a potential when diving into EM fields and their applications), but I believe it was more due to how the book is written and laid out.
I regularly found that the organization and connection/discussion of the information left much to be desired. The motivation for many of the issues is very unclear, usually non-existent.
Also, Balanis regularly changes nomenclature or coordinate systems (again, without motivation or warning. This leads the cut&paste feel and, as a student newer to this field, is very confusing). An example is the patch antenna development. For the rectangular patch, Balanis has x direction normal to the patch surface (very non-standard for the literature) but then he returns to the standard z direction normal to the patch for the circular patch.
In summary, Balanis is probably a good reference, but confusing for use as a text.
(Can any other reviewers recommend other good teaching books on antennas??) Customer Rating: Summary: Great Collection of Antenna Literature Comment: This book presents a great overview of many different types of antennas, as well as some theory behind them. It would be nice if it had coplanar waveguide fed antennas, along with more generalized theory. Overall, though, it is a great collection of work that has been done with antennas so far, along with graphs and radiation patterns of both numerical calculation methods and actual antenna measurements. Customer Rating: Summary: scissors and paste Comment: The author has done a good job of scouring the antenna literature and summarizing all of the equations in one place. The problem is the lack of any discussion about what the equations mean. I am reminded of the definition of a college education given by Prof. McWhorter of Stanford, "the process of the professors notes becoming the student's notes without having passed through the mind of either."
If you are an experienced antenna designer, this book will be of help. If you want to learn from scratch, try the 50 year old book by Kraus.
