ECN#531: Microwave Engineering

Professor Dr. M.V. Kartikeyan

Millimeter/THz Wave Laboratory (MaThLab)
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee 247 667, Uttarakhand, India

Email: Kartik@iitr.ac.in / Kartik@ieee.org

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 Lesson # 01

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

Syllabus

Grading Pattern

What to do ?

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 Detailed syllabus
Transmission Lines and Waveguides:

Review of TEM, TE, and TM mode solutions of Maxwell’s equations;

TEM mode transmission lines: lossless line, line with small losses,
power flow in a terminated line; Quasi-TEM mode lines: Fields in
microstriplines and striplines, losses in microstrips, microstrip
discontinuities, coupled lines, slot lines and coplanar waveguides;
Surface waveguides: Surface waves along an impedance plane,
dielectric-coated conducting plane, slab waveguide, corrugated plane;
Wave velocities.

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 Microwave Circuit Theory Principles:

Equivalent voltages and currents; Z, Y, S, and ABCD parameters;

Equivalent circuit representation of microwave junctions; Scattering
parameter analysis of microwave junctions; Coupling of waveguides
through probes, loops, and apertures.

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 Impedance Transformers:

Review of single-, double- and triple-stub tuners, waveguide

reactive elements, quarter-wave transformers, design of maximally
flat and Chebyshev transformers; Introduction to tapered
transmission lines.

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 Power Dividers and Couplers:

Scattering matrix of 3- and 4-port junctions; Design of T-junction

and Wilkinson power dividers; Design of 90 and 180 hybrids.

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 Filters:

Analysis of periodic structures, Floquet’s theorem, filter design by

insertion loss method, maximally flat and Chebyshev designs.

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 Resonators:

Principles of microwave resonators, loaded, unloaded and external

Q, open and shorted TEM lines as resonators, microstrip resonators,
dielectric resonators.

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 Suggested Books

Sl. Name of Books / Authors Year of

No. Publication
1. Collin, R.E., “Foundations for Microwave Engineering”, 2nd 2000
Ed., John Wiley & Sons.
2. Pozar, D.M., “Microwave Engineering”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & 2004
Sons.
3. Edwards, T.C. and Steer M.B., “Foundations for 2001
Interconnects and Microstrip Design”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley &
Sons.
4. Ludwig, R. and Bretchko, P., “RF Circuit Design”, Pearson 2000
Education.
5. Hunter, I., “Theory and Design of Microwave Filters”, IEE 2001
Press.
6. Misra, D.K., “Radio-frequency and Microwave 2001
Communication Circuits”, John Wiley & Sons.
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 but I prefer teaching from :

POZAR/COLLIN !!!

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 GRADING PROCEDURE: CODES & MODES

CREDITS = 04

MTE: 25% Sessionals: 25% ETE : 50%

Distribution of sessional marks are as follows:

MTE : 25%
SESSIONALS : 25% (mini projects, CST-MWS/HFSS/ADS based)

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 CLASS ITINERARY

 Classes will be held in MaThLab

 Monday: 03-04 pm (Lab ECN#530)

 Tuesday: 10-11 am

 Wednesday: 09-10 am

 Thursday: 10-11 am

 Thursday (Optional): 04-05 pm

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 ATTENDANCE:

75% mandatory, otherwise you

will be barred from giving the
examinations !

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 WHAT TO DO ?

Be REGULAR, SINCERE & STUDIOUS!

Have Text-book handy with you !
Open two separate note books, one for
class notes and another for class
assignments!

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