Comparative Reference to Internet Resources for Antennas and Other Related Topics
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09 October 2oo8, by A Classification of Ware Types
Dr N I Yannopoulou,
Antennas RG

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UA : Unrestricted Access

UA - Visual

Virtual Antennas

~65,ooo First Page Hits Since Friday the 1st of January in 1999
On The Internet since 1996 by DAG/EECE/DUTh [22.Apr.2oo4]

VA

EM Waves ... by Assoc Prof Hsiu C. Han, and was last updated on January 7, 1998 ...
... the author wishes to thank Mr. Herman Harjono for his assistance in the production of these animation sequences and Dr. Michael J. Tsuk at Digital Equipment Corp. for the inspiration. The production of the movies listed here has been partially supported by NSF Grant No. ECS-9624785 ...
ECE/Iowa State University [22.Apr.2oo4]
QuickTime Movies of EM Waves (88)
EM Waves & Antennas ... Here you can preview the latest developments in interactive Educational Software for science and engineering ...  [22.Apr.2oo4]
"Directory Listing Denied" [22.May.2006]
JAVA Applets : EM Waves and Linear Antennas
ElectroMagnetism "... These pages are some of my attempts to visualize the vector fields (actually differential forms) of electromagnetism ... " [22.Apr.2oo4] Virtual RML Gallery of Electromagnetism

UA - Material

Antennas CD-ROM

A modified version of the famous Walnut-Creek 1995-96 CD-ROM, maintained on-line by DAG. 
Huge material in 18 folders.
After downloading don't forget please to restore the following filename extensions
*-bat -> *.bat    ~    *-com -> *.com    ~    *-ini -> *.ini    ~    *-dat -> *.dat

1.Finite Elements
2.NEC
3.miniNEC
4.ThinWire
5.Misc Design SW

Antennas at UniS By Dr.D.J.Jefferies, author of The importance of honesty in science and The self-limitations of the "hard work" ethic. Much information but some links are not working. Keep a good experimental logbook
E&M Archives Physics Examples and other Pedagogic Diversions by Prof. K.T.McDonald, Experimental High-Energy Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University [2 Jan 2005] Links
UA - Material - Related
UMR EMC Laboratory Antennas Design Projects: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001.
Antennas and Propagation Course
UMR EMC
LAB tour
Numerical Electromagnetic Modeling 1.Modeling Codes
2.Computational EM  Links
12 (UA) Technical Reports 1.Numerical EM Techniques
2.FR4
EMI Modeling Problems
10 (UA) Model Validation Papers ... 12 but a couple them are not found
Standard Modeling Problems
Agilent (HP) Metrology Forum
This is our special interest site devoted to calibration issues
1.Articles
2.Download SW

~2000 Application Notes: Test & Measurement

Library
Network Analyzers
"Network analysis satisfies the engineering need to characterize the behavior of passive and active components quickly, accurately, and completely over broad frequency ranges"
RF & Microwave Instruments & Systems
Educator's Corner
"We're a one-stop education resource for college and university engineering educators and researchers looking to..."
1.Experiments
2.Teacher's Tools
3.Researchers Corner
4.Student Resources

UA - Books, Notes and Educational Laboratories

Antennas I: Analysis
[Hellenic]
... at DUTh/EE&CE. Educational Labs
Antennas II: Synthesis, Design Educational Laboratories at DUTh/EE&CE. 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
EM Waves & Antennas This Book, by Sophocles J. Orfanidis, is a work in progress.
~750 References...
Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas
EM Field Theory On-Line Textbook by Bo Thidé, Professor at Uppsala University The Electromagnetic Field Theory
EM Field Exercises Exercises Book by Bo Thidé. See above... The EM Field Theory Exercises
EM Field Solved Problems Problems given, with solutions, and grades for the written final exams by Bo Thidé. See above... The EM Field Theory : Solved Final Exam Problems
Modern Antennas in Wireless Telecommunications By Dr. Natalia K. Nikolova (formerly Georgieva), in 18 parts.
Software from
Sainati's and Balanis' textbooks.
"File Does Not Exists" [04.06.2008]
Antenna Measurements
Theory and Applications in Electromagnetics ...with tests, answers and solutions by Dr. Natalia K. Nikolova (formerly Georgieva) -see above- plus an Interview. Many Resources
EM Fields & Waves This course is intended to provide students with a working knowledge of ElectroMagnetics, mainly Antenna Theory
[Link provided by C.Lambrinou, MS Student at UNM, 2003]
EM Fields and Waves I & II
MIT OCW OpenCourseWare ~700 Courses
[Link provided by M.Berketis, EE&CE Student at DUTh, 2003]
~90 MIT OCW EE&CS Courses
MIT OCW EE&CS

 

Electromagnetics by Prof. Jin Au Kong

Demos (17)

Electromagnetic Wave Theory by Prof. Jin Au Kong Demos (2)
Electromagnetics and Applications. Instructor Prof. David Staelin and  Contributors Prof. Erich Ippen, Prof. Jin Au Kong, Prof. James Melcher, Prof. Markus Zahn :
"...electromagnetic phenomena in modern applications, including wireless communications, circuits, computer interconnects and peripherals, optical fiber links and components, microwave communications and radar, antennas, sensors, micro-electromechanical systems, motors, and power generation and transmission. Fundamentals covered include: quasistatic and dynamic solutions to Maxwell's equations; waves, radiation, and diffraction; coupling to media and structures; guided and unguided waves; resonance; and forces, power, and energy..."
"The instructors of this course extend a general acknowledgment to the many students and instructors who have made major contributions to the course materials over the years, and apologize for any residual errors that may remain in these written materials."
1.Lecture Notes
2.Movies and demos (15)
Receivers, Antennas, and Signals by Prof. David Staelin : "...the detection and measurement of radio and optical signals encountered in communications, astronomy, remote sensing, instrumentation, and radar. Topics covered include: statistical analysis of signal processing systems, including radiometers, spectrometers, interferometers, and digital correlation systems; matched filters and ambiguity functions; communications channel performance; measurement of random electromagnetic fields, angular filtering properties of antennas, interferometers, and aperture synthesis systems; and radiative transfer and parameter estimation..." Readings / Lecture Notes
Advanced Electromagnetism by Prof. Jin Au Kong  : "...special relativity, electrodynamics of moving media, waves in dispersive media, microstrip integrated circuits, quantum optics, remote sensing, radiative transfer theory, scattering by rough surfaces, effective permittivities, random media, Green's functions for planarly layered media, integral equations in electromagnetics, method of moments, time domain method of moments, EM waves in periodic structures: photonic crystals and negative refraction..." 1.Lecture notes
2.Demos (4)

UA - Books - Lecture Notes - Visual Material - Math

Math Monographs Mathematical Monographs Open to Public:
~230 German, ~175 English, ~165 French, ~30 Italian,
2 Russian and 1 Latin Books, as counted by DAG
Math Monographs by Cornell University Library
The 174 English Math Monographs Selection The 174 English Titles, of The Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs, were Sorted Out by DAG on
Monday, 22 December 2003.
The 174 English Math Monographs Selection
Math Links ~300 Links to Textbooks, Lecture Notes and Tutorials in Mathematics collected by Alex Stef. Links to Mathematics
 Math Handbook ...by Professor Emeritus S.K.Persidis. Under Construction. The first 20 Chapters of the Book ... [Hellenic]  Mathematical Handbook [Hellenic]...
MIT OCW Mathematics The material of the following courses is rather complete:
[15 April 2004/DAG]
MIT Dept of Math
Single Variable Calculus by Prof. Jason Starr : "... This introductory Calculus course covers differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, with applications ... There are more Lecture notes to be uploaded shortly ..." 1.Lecture Notes
2.Assignments
3.Exams
Calculus with Applications by Prof. Daniel J. Kleitman : "... Differential calculus in one and several dimensions. Java applets and spreadsheet assignments. Vector algebra in 3D, vector- valued functions, gradient, divergence and curl, Taylor series, numerical methods and applications ... Philosophy of the Course ... Philosophy of Learning ... 22.May.2006
Calculus with Theory I by Dr. Anna Lachowska and Prof. James Munkres : "...Axioms for the real numbers; the Riemann integral; limits, theorems on continuous functions; derivatives of functions of one variable; the fundamental theorems of calculus; Taylor's theorem; infinite series, power series, rigorous treatment of the elementary functions..."
Course Notes by James Raymond Munkres, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
1.Lecture Notes
2.Assignments
Calculus with Theory II by Dr. Anna Lachowska and Prof. James Munkres : "...Calculus of several variables. Vector algebra in 3-space, determinants, matrices. Vector-valued functions of one variable, space motion. Scalar functions of several variables: partial differentiation, gradient, optimization techniques. Double integrals and line integrals in the plane; exact differentials and conservative fields; Green's theorem and applications, triple integrals, line and surface integrals in space, Divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem; applications..."
Course Notes by James Raymond Munkres, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
1.Lecture Notes
2.Assignments
Complex Variables with Applications by Prof. R. Rosales : "...Complex algebra and functions; analyticity; contour integration, Cauchy's theorem; singularities, Taylor and Laurent series; residues, evaluation of integrals; multivalued functions, potential theory in two dimensions; Fourier analysis and Laplace transform..." 1.Assignments
2.Exams
3.Study Materials
Linear Algebra 22.May.2006
Mathematics for Computer Science by Prof. Albert Meyer and Dr. Radhika Nagpal and 8 Contributors : "...(1) Fundamental concepts of Mathematics: definitions, proofs, sets, functions, relations.(2) Discrete structures: modular arithmetic, graphs, state machines, counting.(3) Discrete probability theory..." 1.Readings
2.Lecture Notes
3.Assignments
4.Exams
Differential analysis by Prof. Richard B. Melrose: "...Fundamental solutions for elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic differential operators. Method of characteristics. Review of Lebesgue integration. Distributions. Fourier transform. Homogeneous distributions. Asymptotic methods...." Differential analysis
Principles of Applied Mathematics 22.May.2006
Introduction to Algorithms 22.May.2006
Advanced Algorithms - Fall 2001 22.May.2006
Advanced Algorithms - Fall 2005 22.May.2006
Topics in Theoretical Computer Science : Internet Research Problems by Prof. Tom Leighton, Prof. Bruce Maggs, Ravi Sundaram and Prof. Shang-Hua Teng : "...We will discuss numerous research problems that are related to the internet..." Lecture Notes

UA - Books - Other

Free Books ~10,000 free Books from the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic e-Books or e-texts. Project Gutenberg

UA - References -Related

Constants, Units and Uncertainty The NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology]
Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty
1.Reference
2.The NIST
App Notes ~80 Links for... Application Notes and Data Sheets Web Site Links

UA - Freeware

DAGsoft Antenna Simulation Tools by the DAG.
Based on the work of
Jack H. Richmond.
1.DA4W
2.RadPat4W
3.RICHWIRE
4.miniToolSuite
ASAP Antenna Scatterers Analysis Program Analysis of ThinWire Antenna Structures in the Presence of Finite Ground by Jerry Wayne McCormack, Richard W. Adler, R.P.Haviland [local] and R.L.Cross.
Based on
The THINWIRE Computer Program.
User Manual
System Manual
Examples
QuickRef
SourceCode
G4FGQ's Software Original, high-quality, radio engineering/modelling programs. by Reg Edwards
NEC The unofficial NEC Archives by WB6TPU
EZNEC "... is a powerful but very easy-to-use program for modeling and analyzing nearly any kind of Antenna in its actual operating environment... the only difference between the FREE Demo-ware and standard versions is ... allows 20 segments ... while EZNEC 3.0 ... allows 500 segments ... EZNEC Pro ... up to 10,000 segments..." by Roy Lewallen, W7EL, the author of about 11,6oo GoogleGroups Archived articles, the first of them on 19-11-1991 ! Manual
FAQ
FTP
Transmission Line TX-Line is a free easy-to-use, Windows-based, interactive Transmission Line Calculator for the analysis and synthesis of transmission line structures: [lc:18.Nov.2oo3]
"The page cannot be found"
22.May.2006
TXL by the Microwave Office

UA - Freeware - Simulators - Related

AppCAD plus Everything S Params
-Lost Link-
...by Agilent. AppCAD is a free, easy-to-use program that provides you with a suite of RF Design Tools and computerized Application Notes... Download
Sonnet Lite Sonnet Lite is a free feature-limited version of Sonnet's professional Sonnet Suite, which provides EM analysis to hundreds of companies across the globe. ...more...

UA - Freeware  - Math

WinPlot WinPlot is a general-purpose plotting utility,
which can draw (and animate) curves and surfaces
presented in a variety of formats...
1.Peanut SW
2.WinPlot
Math System *MAXIMA* is ... leading the way for programs such as *MAPLE* and *MATHEMATICA* but please take into account that the application is still in Beta State. Used in the Antenna courses at DUTh by DAG members... MAXIMA:
An Open Free Math System

UA - Freeware - Related

The BBC Basic A pioneer of the BASICs. The History of the legend and a Free Full Working version for a whole of eight kilobytes User Space for Program and Variables! Used by DAG members... The BBC Basic
The NetLib NetLib is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.
~750,000,000 Requests to this SW Repository.
1.The NetLib
2.Local Mirror
Sci/Eng Open Source Projects ~5,500 Scientific/Engineering Open Source Projects from
~75,000 Projects with
~750,000 Registered Users
SourceForge.net is the world's largest
Open Source software development website,
with the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to Open Source developers.
SourceForge
Intel Compilers for Linux Intel Free Non-Commercial Unsupported Versions for Linux 1.Fortran
2.C++
Fortran Links/I Fortran Library Free Fortran Compilers etc Fortran Library
Fortran Links/II Fortran Company Free Fortran Compilers etc  

 

The Linux Archive ~170 GigaBytes of Linux programs and documentation freely available for download. The Original Linux Archives begun on sunsite.unc.edu in 1992... ibiblio's Linux Archive

UA - Freeware - Office

StarOffice ...if you are a student, researcher, staff, or faculty member
you can download the latest version of StarOffice for free from Sun's Software Download Center...
1.StarOffice
2.White Papers
3.Communities
OpenOffice The Complete Office Suite with EL Hellenic Support by Sun Microsystems 1.Open Office
2.OO Hellenic
Math Fonts etc A lot of them... Math Fonts etc

UA - Freeware - Other

Pricelessware The best of the best in MS Windows Freeware, as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware Newsgroup. 12 Categories: Business, Desktop, File Utilities, Graphics, Internet, Multimedia, Organizers, Security, Shell, System Utilities, Text, Web Design. Many of them are used by DAG... Pricelessware

UA - Forums

Antenna NewsGroup One of the largest non-computer, non-social NewsGroups.
~140,000 Threads on Antennas, since the
First post, on 21 June 1993. Unmoderated. Some articles by DAG members.
The rec.radio.
amateur.antenna
NewsGroup
EM NewsGroup ~50,000 Threads in ElectroMagnetics. Some articles by DAG members. The sci.physics.
electromag NewsGroup

UA - Related Forums

Metric System
[SI-Units] NewsGroup
~500 Messages: a valuable forum for all points of view regarding the metric system... The misc.metric-system NewsGroup
MathForum
@Drexel
Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for Math students and their teachers by ... 1.Ask Dr.Math
2.Math Forum @ Drexel

UA - e-Mailing Lists

Antennaware Antenna Modeling, Programs, and Theory
"...This list is intended for the exchange of information on antenna analysis and modelling software..."
Low traffic but the Searchable Archives go back to March 1998.
Archives

UA - R&D

EM Lib ... is currently brought to you by: Tom Cwik (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) ... Thanks to Scott Ray, who worked on the original EMLIB ftp site up to 1996, to Daniel S. Katz who worked on the EMLIB web site from 1996 -2002, to JPL, for supplying the resources for this site, and to NA-Net, for supplying the software to run the database, specifically: Paul McMahan and Keith Moore (University of Tennessee) ...
Much of information but some links are not working.
The Oldest ElectroMagnetics Library at JPL/NASA.
"The page cannot be displayed" [22.May.2006]
See Next Link Below
1.Educational Resources
2. EM Software
3.EM Sites and EM Research Groups
EM Lib
-Partially Cached-
1.EMLIB Home Page - 2.EMLIB Introduction - 3.EM Educational Resources4.EM Routines and Codes - 5.Other EM Sites and EM Research Groups - 6.Conference Information - 7.EM Definition EM Lib
-Partially Cached-
EE&CE Theses ~5,000 Virginia Tech MS/PhD Theses/Dissertations Open to the Public.
~400 from the (E)
EE&CE/EE Department.
~10 Theses of them, related to Antennas, were collected and cached
locally by DAG
Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertations
SCI [Local] Open Only Locally within DUTh ip domain addresses including those of Modem access. Very short time of inactivity. 1.Science Citation Index [Local]
2.ISI

UA - Other Material

App Notes ~80 Links for... Application Notes and Data Sheets Web Site Links
The Any Browser campaign... "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996. Accessible Site Design Guide
The Electric Editors The Internet community for editors, proofreaders, indexers, translators and publishers, with searchable archives back to 1996 The Electric Editors
Studies, Jobs and Careers in Greece and elsewhere Studies, Jobs and Careers in Greece and elsewhere from a 'general point of view'. Maintained by DAG members [Hellenic/Greeklish]. Studies, Jobs and Careers in Greece and elsewhere

CA : Conditional Access

CA - Software

AnSoft for Academia AnSoft's Dedication to Academics: Our free downloads are feature-limited, student versions of some of our commercially distributed software". Registration is needed. 1.Designer
2.Maxwell
3.Simplorer
Aces The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society ... Registration is needed to download software... [23.Apr.2oo4] EM & Other Related SW
Antennas First of all you have to Register as referenced in Forums, RF Globalnet/Antenna , below. After that Select: Search=antenna, Products=Downloads. Press: Search. On Search Results page, Click: Posted. Wait for the new Results page to appear and then Click: Posted, again. Now the items are sorted by posted date in ascending order and the first of them is "Antenna Designer (antenna.zip)", on 5/28/1999 10:58:00 AM. Scroll down to find more software... Antennas Software etc by RF-GlobalNet

CA - Forums

OLS ... Logan, UT (April 19, 2004) -- The Open Sustainable Learning Opportunity (OSLO) Group announced today that Utah State University has partnered with MIT to provide free human support for self-learners and others taking advantage of OpenCourseWare materials at MIT...
Registration is needed [21 Apr 2oo4]

"The page cannot be found" [04.06.2008]
Course List (7)
RF Globalnet/Antenna ~1,600 threads in this Antenna Forum. The first article was posted on 4 March 1997. The host is Dr. David Pozar but the Moderator is unknown. Registration is needed. ~800 Threads in Software & Modeling Forum for CAE tools and tricks, routines and models, ~300 Threads in Test & Measurement Forum. Some  articles by DAG members were vanished. Antenna, Software & Modeling, Test & Measurement Forums

CA - e-Mailing Lists

DAG Antennas etc in Hellenic, Greeklish and English . Moderated by The DAG. DAG

CA - Magazines

Microwave Journal
 
... since 1958 ... The Microwave Journal, a monthly magazine for qualified individuals in the Microwave and RF industry, requires registration for use of features on this site ...
Microwave Journal may soon be available in digital format.
Microwave Flash!

LA : Limited Access

LA - Forums

Eng-Tips/Antenna Not for Students.
~6,000 members in The Antenna and Propagation Engineering Forum. ~5,500 members in Microwave & Electromagnetic Engineering Forum.
"...Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical engineering professional community. It's easy to
Register and it's free. The Eng-Tips Forums site is member supported ... "
All the articles by DAG members don't appear anymore. [21 Apr 2oo4]
Antenna & Prop MW & EM Eng Forums at Eng-Tips

LA - Software - Math

Mathematica Thousands of pages of Free information on Mathematica and its applications to mathematics, science, and other fields. With a contribution to Free MathSource by DAG members. The Mathematica Info-Center
MathType A Mathematical Editor which replaces the MS Office Equation Editor. Partially supports Open/Star Office too.
A 30 days fully functional trial
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Math on the Web: A  Free Semi-Annual Status Report

LA - Magazines

antenneX ~3,100,000 visitors, ~1,200 Articles, ~35 Free Previews,
~35 Free Column Articles plus a Discussion List.
All About Amateur Antennas by Professionals.
Very well documented material. Published On-Line Monthly.
1.Antenna Modeling
2.From The Shack

3.Ham Workshop
4.Propagation
 
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Internet Resources A Classification of Ware Types
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Team Players and Lone Wolves
Antennas Research Group
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