Sophocles J. Orfanidis' Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas (Rutgers University) is a broad, applications-oriented introduction to electromagnetic waves and antennas, with worked MATLAB examples throughout. Current interest in these areas is driven by the growth in wireless and fiber-optic communications, information technology, and materials science.

Communications, antenna, radar, and microwave engineers must deal with the generation, transmission, and reception of electromagnetic waves. Device engineers working on ever-smaller integrated circuits and at ever higher frequencies must take wave-propagation effects into account at the chip and circuit-board levels. Communication and computer-network engineers routinely use waveguiding systems such as transmission lines and optical fibers. Newer developments in materials — photonic bandgap structures, omnidirectional dielectric mirrors, birefringent multilayer films, surface plasmons, negative-index metamaterials, and slow and fast light — promise a revolution in the control and manipulation of light. These are just some of the topics the book covers.

For the Sommerfeld–Goubau work on this site, the most relevant material is the waveguiding section — Ch. 9 Waveguides, Ch. 10 Surface Waveguides, Ch. 11 Transmission Lines, Ch. 13 Impedance Matching, and Ch. 14 S-Parameters — together with the book's discussion of surface plasmons.

Archived here. The author's Rutgers ECE page is no longer online, so the complete book, the per-chapter PDFs, and the MATLAB toolbox have been captured from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and are mirrored below. All material is © Sophocles J. Orfanidis; it is reproduced here for study and preservation.

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• Complete book — Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas (PDF, 1433 pp.)
• MATLAB toolbox — ewa.zip (207 functions) — the electromagnetic-waves-and-antennas MATLAB function library that accompanies the book.
• Front matter · Table of contents · References · Index · Errata

Chapters

1. Maxwell's Equations
2. Uniform Plane Waves
3. Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Media
4. Propagation in Birefringent Media
5. Reflection and Transmission
6. Multilayer Structures
7. Oblique Incidence
8. Multilayer Film Applications
9. Waveguides
10. Surface Waveguides
11. Transmission Lines
12. Coupled Lines
13. Impedance Matching
14. S-Parameters
15. Radiation Fields
16. Transmitting and Receiving Antennas
17. Linear and Loop Antennas
18. Radiation from Apertures
19. Diffraction — Plane-Wave Spectrum
20. Diffraction — Fourier Optics
21. Aperture Antennas
22. Antenna Arrays
23. Array Design Methods
24. Currents on Linear Antennas
25. Coupled Antennas
26. Appendices

The MATLAB toolbox

ewa.zip contains the 207 MATLAB functions used in the book's examples — antenna-array design and steering, impedance matching (Smith-chart, stub, quarter-wave), multilayer reflection/transmission, S-parameters, waveguide and transmission-line calculations, and diffraction. Download it above and add the unpacked folder to your MATLAB path.

Source

The material originates from the author's Rutgers ECE page, now offline; the copies here are from the Internet Archive:

1. Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas — S. J. Orfanidis, Rutgers ECE (original, now offline)
2. Archived copy — Internet Archive Wayback Machine, 28 May 2024

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