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MICROWAVES
cod. 02191

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Campi elettromagnetici (ING-INF/02)
Field
Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni
Type of training activity
Characterising
48 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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Learning objectives

The course aims to provide the basic theoretical knowledge, analysis tools and application examples of microwave components.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Program of the course: Continuity conditions, skin effect. Basic theorems of electromagnetism. Guided propagation and waveguides. Modal functions, waveguide eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Mode orthogonality. Guided mode spectrum, mode expansion and power distribution. Modal, intra-modal, polarization and waveguide dispersion. Mode impedance. Rectangular and circular metallic waveguide. Measurement tools. Microwave transmission lines, microstrip and stripline. Microwave circuit theory. N-port circuits and two port junction. Impedance, admittance and scattering matrices for passive circuits. Passive microwave devices; terminations, couplers, attenuators, filters, hybrid junctions, magic T, circulators. Resonators ; definition, resonant field and cavity modes. Losses and Q factor. Microwave amplifiers. Gain, stability, noise. Microwave antennas and plane wave spectrum. Numerical methods for electromagnetism.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Collin R.E. Foundation for Microwave Engineering, Second Edition, Mc. Graw Hill, 1992. <br />
David M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.

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