CTU FEE Moodle

This course provides its students with principles and techniques used in modern microwave circuits as well as with basic design methods used in such systems.

1. Introduction - microwave technology and its specifics, wave propagating
through an electric circuit. ^
2. Transmission lines and waves, standing waves, narrowband impedance
matching.^
3. Broadband impedance matching, Fano limit, correspondence between matching
circuits and filters^
4. Multiport matching, stability of a two-port, single stage amplifier
design^
5. Real lines used in MIO design, microstrip line, coplanar waveguide^
6. Line discontinuities^
7. Coupled lines, couplers^
8. Power dividers, directional couplers^
9. Circuit optimization, error function, local and global methods^
10. Nonlinear microwave circuit analysis, harmonic balance^
11. Numerical analysis of electromagnetiuc field and field simulators in
frequency domain.^
12. Time domain analysis (FDTD, FETD)^
13. Optoelectrronic circuits^
14. Modern trends (MEMS, metamaterials)

1. Introduction. Problems resulting from finite circuit dimensions - and how
to make use of it.^
2. (Standing) waves on transmission lines, impedance transformation,
impedance matching using lines and stubs.^
3. Introduction to CAD system. Individual task assignment.^ 4. Broadband matching circuit design - analytic, optimization.^
5. Single stage transistor amplifier design (unconditionally stable transistor) - rf part.^
6. Design of amplifier feeding circuits
7. Design of amplifier layout in a planar structure
8. Task 1 finalization. ^
9. Optimization method comparison.^
10. Design - task 2.^
11. Design - task 2.^
12. Fierld simulator.^
13. Optoelectronic circuit simulation.^
14. Task submission. Assesment.

[1] Gupta, K.C., Garg, R., Chadha, R.: Computer-Aided Design of Microwave Circuits. Artech House, Dedham 1981^

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