Course Name: EE5491 : Wave Guides,Microwave Circuits & Antennas

Description: Review: Maxwell?s Equations, Poynting Theorem, Group and Phase velocity. Transmission Lines, Plane Waves: Cutoffs and reflections in ionosphere. Anisotropic media: Faraday Rotation. Thin films. Introduction to optical filter design. Waveguides: Rectangular and cylindrical waveguides. Dielectric and Surface waveguides, Microwave Networks: Microwave cavities. Scattering matrix, S parameters, reciprocity, coupling energy to a waveguide. Use of Vector Network Analyser to characterise high-speed circuits, Microwave components: Gunn, impatt and varacter diodes, etc and their use in designing RF circuits. Active and passive RF filters, Antennas: Potential functions. Monopole and dipole antennas, Antenna arrays. Yagi, Horn, Parabola, micro strip and patch antennas. Antenna equivalent circuits, Antenna directivity, Gain and Coupling, Impedance, Radiation patterns. Case Studies of RF circuits in mobile phones and satellite communications, Optional Additional Topics: Waveguide couplers, practical RF circuit design, grat

Slot: C

RoomNo: ESB207B

Instructor: Harishankar Ramachandran

Period: JAN-MAY 2013

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