Microwave Circuits - BE2M17MIO

Credits 5
Semesters Winter
Completion Assessment + Examination
Language of teaching English
Extent of teaching 2P+2C
Annotation
Subject is focused on the design of planar passive and active microwave circuits.
Course outlines
1. Planar and monolithic technologies
2. Coupled transmission lines
3. Directional couplers
4. Hybrid power dividers - Lange, branch line and Rat-race, de Ronde coupler
5. Power dividers
6. Microwave planar resonators and filters
7. Gain definitions, stability of microwave amplifiers
8. Low-noise and power amplifiers
9. Narrow and broadband amplifiers
10. Parameters of rf nonlinear circuits: noise, intermodulation, compression
11. Microwave diode oscilators
12. Transistor oscilators
13. Rf and microwave detectors and mixers
14. Diode and transistor multipliers, limiters
Literature
1. K. Hoffmann, Aktivní mikrovlnné obvody, skripta, ČVUT FEL, 2003.
2. D. M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
3. R. E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering, 2nd ed., Wiley-IEEE Press, 2000.
Requirements
Basic knowledge of theory of electromagnetic field, theory of circuits, transmission lines and rf technique.