Colorado State University
ECE 548: Microwave Theory and Component Design
Spring 2012 Lecture Notes
The class lecture notes are available as Adobe PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your machine. Please note: The PDF files on this web site are protected by a password. This is available only to students in this course. If you are in the course and need the password, please e-mail the instructor. Please note: All make-up classes will be held in the Natural Resources Building, Room 106.
Date Lecture No. Lecture Topic PDF Document Tues., Jan. 17 1 Introduction to ECE 548 and Microwave / RF Engineering Thurs., Jan. 19 2 Review of EM fundamentals; plane electromagnetic waves Lecture 1 Tues., Jan. 24 No Class -- Make-up Classes
Thurs., Jan. 26 No Class -- Make-up Classes
Tues., Jan. 31 3 Energy and power; Poynting's theorem; loss in a good conductor Lecture 2 Tues., Jan. 31 (Make-up @ 2:00) 4 Review of transmission line theory; loads on lossless lines; general solution for guided waves
Supplement: Voltage, current and impedance on lossless transmission lines
Thurs., Feb. 2 5 Waveguide mode propagation in rectangular and circular guides
Tues., Feb. 7 6 Attenuation of TE11 mode in a circular guide Lecture 4, cont. Tues., Feb. 7 (Make-up @ 2:00) 7 Attenuation of TM modes in circular guides; introduction to planar transmission lines
Supplement A: Designer's Guide to Stripline Circuits
Supplement B: Designer's Guide to Microstrip LineThurs., Feb. 9 8 Stripline; microstrip line; comparison of loss among circular waveguide, stripline and microstrip
Tues., Feb. 14 9 Microwave network analysis; equivalent voltages and currents for TE10 mode; impedance and admittance matrices; reciprocal and lossless networks
Supplement: Review of matrices
Tues., Feb. 14 (Make-up @ 2:00) 10 Scattering matrix, [Sij], for reciprocal and lossless networks; examples of 4-port networks with generalized terminations
Thurs., Feb. 16 11 Tee and Pi equivalent circuits; transmission [ABCD] networks; shift in reference planes
Lecture 9 Tues., Feb. 21 No Class -- Make-up Classes
Thurs., Feb. 23 12 Discontinuities and modal analysis; probe-fed rectangular guides; impedance matching and tuning; lumped element transformers; stub tuners; quarter-wave tuners
Lecture 10 Thurs., Feb. 23 (Make-up @ 2:00) 13 Design of single- and double-stub tuners with shunt stubs; worked examples Lecture 11 Tues., Feb. 28 14 Design of binomial and Chebyshev multi-section matching transformers; worked examples
Lecture 12 Tues., Feb. 28 (Make-up @ 2:00) 15 Exact and approximate solutions for Chebyshev multi-section matching transformers; tapered line matching sections; Bode-Fano criteria for matching networks
Lecture 13 Thurs., Mar. 1 No Class -- Make-up Classes
Tues., Mar. 6 No Class -- Make-up Classes
Thurs., Mar. 8 No Class -- Make-up Classes Tues., Mar. 13 No Class -- Spring Break
Thurs., Mar. 15 No Class -- Spring Break Tues., Mar. 20 17 Practical design of microwave terminations; microwave resonators; Q; bandwidth; loaded Q; resonant transmission lines; microstrip resonators; rectangular waveguide cavities Rectangular cavity fields
Lecture 14 Tues., Mar. 20 (Make-up @ 2:00) 18 Q of a rectangular cavity; cylindrical and dielectric resonators; microwave oven resonators Lecture 15 Thurs., Mar. 22 19 Three-port networks; circulators; power dividers Lecture 16 Tues., Mar. 27 20 Bethe-hole directional coupler; quadrature hybrids Thurs., Mar. 29 21 Design of coupled-line coupler; Lange coupler; examples
Rat-race coupler
Tues., Apr. 3 22 Image parameter method of filter design; constant-k, m-derived filters Lecture 19 Thurs., Apr. 5 23 Insertion loss method of filter design; low-pass filter prototypes; transformation to HPF, BPF and BSF Lecture 20 Tues., Apr. 10 24 Richards' transformation; Kuroda's identities; examples of microstrip filter design and analysis Lecture 21 Thurs., Apr. 12 25 Stepped impedance filters; lumped element high-pass filters Lecture 22 Tues., Apr. 17 26 Transmission Line Utility; coupled-line filters; metallization effects
Thurs., Apr. 19 27 Noise in microwave systems Lecture 24 Tues., Apr. 24 28 Noise of cascaded systems; detectors and mixers; harmonic and intermodulation distortion Lecture 25 Thurs., Apr. 26 29 Introduction to antennas; radiation intensity and directivity Lecture 26 Tues., May 1 30 Antenna radiation efficiency, gain and noise temperature; Friis transmission formula Lecture 27 Thurs., May 3 30 Review for Final Exam
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