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Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, 3rd Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Constantine A. Balanis
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 21797
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.2 x 2.3
ISBN: 047166782X
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3824
EAN: 9780471667827
ASIN: 047166782X
Publication Date: April 4, 2005
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Product Description
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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 agree w/ scissor & paste [ EE grad student (physics & matl eng background)] June 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 March 18, 2007
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.
scissors and paste December 9, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
 A delightful read September 21, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is quite possibly one of the biggest books on antennas ever written. The information is presented in a clear and concise manner, and you can easily find what you need. There is all sorts of information on new antennas and the derivations for many equations are presented clearly. There is enough material to give all other books page envy, and therefore, it earns a rating of 5 stars.
Excellent August 19, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have two standard textbooks on antennas, namely, Antenna Theory by Balanis and Antennas by Kraus (both third edition). Both are good books. But if I could keep only one book, I would definitely choose Balanis because, in my non-expert opinion, it is more coherent, more systematic, and has a stronger emphasis on principles. Balanis also comes with a helpful CD containing Powerpoint slides (tons of them), Matlab files, and a few other items. The paper quality is superb but the paper thickness makes for a tome that feels like a heavy college dictionary. The mathematics is not as scary as I originally thought, and should be okay for final year EE undergraduates. I recommend this book highly and unreservedly.
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