20-EECE-611   MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS

 

Required/Electives:             Elective taken by EE students

 

Catalog Data:                       20-EECE-611.  Microwave Communications.  Credits 3.  A study of wireless communication systems, passive microwave and millimeter wave components and circuits, amplifiers, and oscillators. 

 

Prerequisite:                        20-ECES-473, Electromagnetic Fields I and 20-EECE-474, Electromagnetic Fields II, or consent of Instructor.

 

Textbook:                              D. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 3rd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 2005.

                                                Class Notes.

 

References:                          1.  T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communication, Principles and Practice, IEEE Press, 1996.

                                                    2.  R.E. Collin, Microwave Engineering, McGraw Hill.

                                                    3.  G. Gonzales, Microwave Transistor Amplifiers, Analysis and Design, Prentice Hall, 2nd Ed.,       1997.

                                                    4.  E.A. Wolf and R. Kaul, Microwave Engineering and System Applications.

                                                    5.  Class Notes.

 

Goals:                                    This course is designed to give students an understanding of the basic concepts of microwave communication, microwave passive and active components and circuits.  Various components of communication systems such as transmission lines, waveguides, resonators, filters, amplifiers and oscillators are covered.  Problems are assigned requiring circuit simulations using latest microwave software packages so that the students will familiarize themselves with the modern CAD/CAM tools.

 

Topics:                                   1.     Introduction to wireless communication systems and subsystems.  Satellite communications, cellular phones and radar.

1.        Review of Maxwell’s Equations, electromagnetic fields, boundary conditions.

2.        Transmission Line Theory, Distributed and Lumped parameters, Characteristic Impedance.  

3.        Waveguides and other common transmission lines, parallel plate, microstrip, stripline, coaxial line rectangular, and circular waveguide.

5.        Microwave network analysis, impedance concept, matrix representation, Y, Z and S parameters. 

6.        Smith Chart. Impedance matching and tuning, single stub matching networks.

7.        Microwave resonator structures, Q and resonant frequency of a resonator, rectangular and cylindrical cavities, microstrip resonators.

8.        Microwave components, power dividers, coupled lines, directional couplers, filters.

 

Class/Laboratory Schedule: Class usually meets 3 times a week for 50 minutes;

                                                   

Outcomes:                            a1, a2, a3, c, e, g2, k

 

Computer Usage:                 Various problems are assigned which require simulations using Agilent ADS.  Computer usage is rigorously encouraged since the circuits are involved in high frequency circuits.

                                               

Laboratory Projects:          Following course EECE 612 provides the laboratory experience for this course.

 

Contribution to Professional Component:      Engineering science:  2 credits or 67%

                                                                                Engineering design:   1 credit or 33%

 

Coordinator:                         Altan M. Ferendeci, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

 

Prepared by:                         Altan M. Ferendeci, Ph.D.                                                                                          Date: September 2007