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Articles and Tutorials on Antenna Design. Topics Covered: Antenna Fundamentals, Gain, Directivity, Antenna Design, Monopole Antennas, Yagi Antennas, Parabolic Antennas, Patch Antenna, RFID Antennas, GPS Antennas and more...     


Articles & Tutorials on Antenna Design

Antenna Tutorial

Tutorial Covers: Antenna terminology such as Gain Directivity, Polarization and gives a brief description of the different types of antennas.
From Aerocomm


Antenna Design
goes over all aspects of Antennas: Fundamentals, Design, Types of Antennas and more… 
From Microwaevs101


The Basics of Patch Antennas

This article introduces some of the basic concepts of patch antennas. It focuses on explaining the general properties of patch antennas by using the simple rectangular probed patch. It will cover topics including: principles of operation, impedance matching, radiation pattern and related aspects, bandwidth, and efficiency. 
By D. Orban and G.J.K. Moernaut from Orban Microwave Products


GPS Patch Antenna

The purpose of this application note is to give the reader an understanding of the basic properties of patch antennas in relation to GPS reception and help in defining the right patch antenna for his or her application.
By D. Orban and T. Eyerman from Orban Microwave Products 



ISM-Band and Short Range Device Antennas
This application report discusses antenna fundamentals and the various types of antennas
used for short range devices. Fundamentals are presented along with practical design principals.
From Texas Instruments


Design of a Planar Omnidirectional Microstrip Antenna for 802.11 b/g Wireless Applications
A Microstrip Omnidirectional Antenna for WiFi Applications 
by Randy Bancroft and Blaine Bateman from Centurian Wireless Technologies

 

Antenna Design Tutorial
Application Note goes over Antenna Fundamentals and the various types of Antennas
from Micrel by Tom Yestrebsky

 

The Basics of Antenna Arrays
This article introduces the basic concepts of antenna arrays.
By G.J.K. Moernaut and D. Orban from Orban Microwave Products

 

The Design of dual band chip antenna for GSM/DCS Mobile Phone Handset
This paper discusses a dual band antenna of chip type that can be applied to actual portable phones. The Antenna was developed on FR-4 PCB.
by Sangjae Yun, Minchan Kim, Hyengcheul Choi and Hyeongdong Kim from Hanyang University

 

Micro-strip Patch Antenna Primer
This paper discusses the theory and design of micro-strip patch antennas.  

By J P Silver - www.rfic.co.uk


Antenna Fundamentals

Basic Concepts of Antennas explained in details with Equations and Diagrams.


HF Antenna Design for RFID Applications
This Application Note describes how HF Antennas (13.56 MHz) can be designed for RFID Applications
from Texas Instruments



Antenna Design, Application and Performance

Application Note from LINX Technologies