Electromagnetic and Microwave Applications

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Emmanouil M Tentzeris

Prerequisites: ECE 3025 [min C]

Catalog Description

presents concepts of electromagnetics applied to the design of microwave/RF circuits, modules, and systems encompassing transmission and radiation for applications up to optical frequencies

Textbook(s)

Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics

Course Outcomes

Identify different topologies of transmission lines and their matching networks

Design a transmission line matching network

Use a Smith Chart for design, problem-solving, and interpreting/reporting results 

Identify the basics of electromagnetic plane wave mechanics 

Analyze planar reflections of electromagnetic waves 

Design and model a rectangular, metallic waveguide 

Analyze the operation of a cavity resonator

Characterize multi-port microwave devices with standard parameters, such as Z-parameters, Y-parameters, scattering matrices, and transmission matrices 

Analyze a basic of radiating systems 

Design a basic microwave or optical filter

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Review of wave definitions-Phasors
  2. Transmission line equations-Lumped element model
  3. Reflection coefficient, Input impedance, Standing Wave Ratio, Terminations
  4. Matching techniques (quarter wavelength, stubs, lumped elements)
  5. The Smith Chart
  6. Application Talk 1: Additive Manufacturing for "Green" RF and EM Structures
  7. Plane waves and polarizations
  8. Reflection of normally incident plane waves
  9. Oblique incidence - Wave impedance
  10. Total reflection, Brewster angle, optical fibers
  11. Application Talk 2: Energy Harvesting and "Zero-Power" EM/RF modules
  12. Waveguides - Laplace and Helmholtz equations in rectangular coordinates
  13. Parallel plate waveguides (Modes and Losses)
  14. Planar transmission lines/waveguides
  15. Rectangular waveguides
  16. Waves below and near cutoff - Quasi-TEM modes
  17. Dispersion, loss and practical mode excitation
  18. Resonators and quality factor
  19. Application Talk 3: Applications of EM to sensing, biomedical and IoT
  20. Microwave networks and Reciprocity
  21. Equivalent circuits, Z-, Y-, scattering (S) and transmission (T) matrices
  22. Cascaded 2-port networks, microwave and optical filters
  23. S-parameters of N-ports, directional couplers
  24. Electric and magnetic dipoles, power, potentials
  25. Half-wave dipole, gain, radiation resistance and patterns
  26. Antenna efficiency, conjugate matching
  27. Friis formula and superposition principle
  28. Linear arrays
  29. Application Talk 4: Nanotechnology, 5G and EM: the path to wireless sensors for smart skins, autonomous cars and smart cities