Pre-Requisite : EC205
Contact Hours and Credits : ( 3 -0- 0 ) 3
To expose students to the complete fundamentals and essential feature of waveguides, resonators and microwave components and also able to give an introduction to microwave integrated circuit design
Classification of guided wave solutions-TE, TM and TEM waves. Field analysis transmission lines.
Rectangular and circular waveguides. Excitation of waveguides. Rectangular and circular cavity resonators.
Transmission line equations. Voltage and current waves. Solutions for different terminations. Transmission-line loading.
Impedance transformation and matching. Smith Chart, Quarter-wave and half-wave transformers. Binomial and Tchebeyshev transformers. Single, double and triple stub matching .
Microstriplines, stripline, slot lines, coplanar waveguide and fin line. Microstrip MIC design aspects. Computer- aided analysis and synthesis.
Students are able to