Microwave Engineering

ECE-402
Prof. D. Kannadassan, Cabin: TT145 Microwave Lab Mobile: 9944055243 Email: dkannadassan@vit.ac.in

Open Hours: Tue - Morning

Course Objective
1. To educate the fundamentals Engineering and Technology. of Microwave Science,

2. To develop a basic understanding of RF and Microwave circuit design techniques using Microwave test bench and Microwave circuit simulations 3. To enquire the recent system/circuit level developments and beyond

Unit I :

Microwave measurement and application: Microwave frequencies (IEEE Standards), Applications of Microwaves: Microwave Oven, Radar, Wireless applications. Microwave measurements- Guide wavelength VSWR-Frequency, Impedance.

Unit II :

Microwave Network Analysis: Impedance and admittance matrix- Reciprocal Networks and Lossless networks, Scattering matrix- The transmission matrix Signal Flow graph Decomposition of Signal Flow graphs.
Microwave Sources and semiconductor devices: Microwave Tubes: Travelling Wave Tube (TWT), Klystron oscillator, Reflex Klystron, Magnetron. Semiconductor Devices: Tunnel diode, Gunn diode, IMPATT-TRAPATT-BARITT diodes. Microwave Passive Components (Wave Guide): Power dividers: E-Plane Tee, H-Plane Tee, Magic Tee, Directional Coupler. Ferrite Devices: Phase Shifter, Isolator, Circulator, Microwave Resonators Wave guide cavities: Rectangular Cavity, Circular Cavity Design of Microwave Passive and Active Circuits: Microstrip lines : Basics of Microstrip lines, difference between strip lines and microstrip lines. Power Dividers: T junction, resistive power divider, Wilkinson Power Divider, Branch Line Coupler, Rat race ring(180o hybrid coupler). Microwave Filters: Low Pass Filter design(Butterworth and Chebyshev) - Insertion loss method: Richards Transformation, Kurodas identities, Stepped impedance low pass filter. Microwave Active circuits: Microwave transistors Microwave amplifiers, Stability, Single stage transistor amplifier, Maximum gain method.

Unit III:

Unit IV:

Unit V :

Books
Text Books
T1 - D. M. Pozar, Microwave engineering, John Wiley, 3/e, 2005 T2- Samuel Y. Liao, Microwave Devices and Circuits,3/e,PHI, New Delhi,2002 Reference R1 - Robert E.Coolin, Foundations of Microwave Engineering, John Wiley, 3/e,2001 R2 - Annapurna Dasand S, K. Das, Microwave Engineering, Tata Mc Graw-Hill, 2000 R3 - O.P. Gandhi, Microwave Engineering, Pergamon Press, NY, 2003. R4 - M.L. Sisodia, Microwave active devices- Vaccum and Solid States NAI, 2004. R5 - M.L. Sisodia, Microwave circuit and Passive devices New Age International, 2004.

Course Evaluation
Internal : 50 Marks
PBL-short test 1, 2 and 3 : 25 Marks Project : 25 Marks

External: 50 Marks

PBL Course plan

Lecture 1-11 12 13 14-18 Lecture Date 11-Jul-13 to 05-Aug-13 07-Aug-13 08-Aug-13 12-Aug-13 to 22-Aug-13 Lecture Topic First and Second Units - Lectures Short test I (50min) Project outlines Team Announcement Lectures Confirmation of Project Title Lecture Short test II (50min) 25 Mark Test 2 per team (One topper and one slow learner) Remarks

19-24 25 26-32

CAT 1 (24.08.2013 to 01.09.2013) 02-Sep-13 to 16-Sep-13

18-Sep-13 19-Sep-13 to 3-Oct-13 CAT II (05.10.2013 to 12.10.2013) 14-Oct-13 to 07-Novt-13 11-Novt-13

CAT 1 time
One progress report through mail 25 Mark Test

Project short-report or PPT submission Lecture Short test III (50min) Lecture and summery

CAT 2 time

33-41 42 43-44

25 Marks

13-Novt-13 to 14- Nov - 13

Last workingday