A Review on Reflector Antennas and their Types

Abstract

Many engineers are showing interest in specialising in communication fields in this modern era of wireless communication, but this necessitates a basic understanding of fundamental communication concepts such as antenna types, electromagnetic radiation, and various propagation phenomena, among others. Antennas are important in wireless communication systems because they efficiently convert electronic impulses into electromagnetic waves. Antennas are essential parts of any electrical circuit because they connect the transmitter to the free space or the receiver to the free space. In a wireless communication system, there are various types of antennas.

In wireless communication systems, the antenna is the most crucial component. An antenna converts electrical signals into radio waves and back. An antenna for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves that consists of one or more reflecting surfaces and a feed mechanism. Radars, satellite communications and tracking, remote sensing, radio astronomy, and other modern applications of reflector antennas have led in the development of sophisticated reflector antenna topologies as well as analytical and experimental design methodologies.