This course will be an introduction to microwave circuit design and analysis techniques, with particular emphasis on applications for modern microwave communication and sensing systems. Also, it will cover fundamental measurement techniques for device and circuit characterization at microwave frequencies The specific content of the course may be as follows:
Review of electromagnetics: Maxwell's equations, plane wave solutions.
Types of transmission lines and their properties: coaxial lines, rectangular waveguides, Microstrip.
Network analysis: scattering matrix, transmission matrix formulations.
Matching networks: lumped element designs and limitations, single and double-stub tuned designs, Quarter-wavelength transformers, multisection matching transformers.
Active microwave circuit design: characteristics of microwave transistors, mixers and detectors, Oscillators.
Amplifier design: LNA and Power amplifiers, gain and stability, design for noise figure. Single-stage amplifier design.
Noise in microwave circuits: dynamic range and noise sources, equivalent noise temperature, system noise figure considerations.
Prerequisites: None.
Text Books:
- David M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 3rd. ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Reference Books:
- Guillermo Gonzalez, Microwave Transistor Amplifiers, 2nd. ed., Prentice-Hall, 1997.
- Thomas H. Lee, Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurement, and Circuits, 1st Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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