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The discipline of antenna theory has experienced vast technological changes. In response, Constantine Balanis has updated his classic text, Antenna Theory, offering the most recent look at all the necessary topics. New material includes smart antennas and fractal antennas, along with the latest applications in wireless communications. Multimedia material on an accompanying CD presents PowerPoint viewgraphs of lecture notes, interactive review questions, Java animations and applets, and MATLAB features. Like the previous editions, Antenna Theory, Third Edition meets the needs of electrical engineering and physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, and those of practicing engineers as well. It is a benchmark text for mastering the latest theory in the subject, and for better understanding the technological applications.
An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.
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Excellent Breadth of Coverage
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This classic text by Constantine Balanis of ASU is widely considered to be the Bible for antenna engineering. It is a good introduction to antennas, a classic text worthy of study for its importance to the field, and overall very practical and clear. The scope of its coverage and the depth it attains in many areas is remarkable. The coverage of basic wire and loop antenna theory and arrays is good, and the book is worth buying just for chapters 1-6. After that point, it becomes more of a survey of classic antenna papers and does not fully explain many topics, but the sacrifice of depth for breadth is excusable due to the amount of material covered. As with any engineering text at the college level, thoroughness in some of the derivations is lacking, and insight is gained through working the problems. Since the book is academic in nature, it is best read in conjunction with formal study. However, it does contain some useful tables of equations and good design procedures for rapid design work. Overall, an important text for the antenna design engineer and for the serious scholar and well worth the cost, but for the practicing communications engineer who needs a ready reference on antennas, a good choice but probably not the best choice.
Antenna bible
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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.
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It was a very nice book. there was no difference between it as a used book and a new one.
agree w/ scissor & paste [ EE grad student (physics & matl eng background)]
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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??)
Great Collection of Antenna Literature
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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.
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