Course: RF and Microwaves

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Course title RF and Microwaves
Course code KEEZ/VVYT2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Schejbal Vladimír, prof. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Utilization of microwaves. Electromagnetic wave properties. Electromagnetic wave propagation. Two-antenna power transmission. Basic types and properties of microwave transmission lines. Scattering parameters and impedance matching. Microwave integrated circuits. Transmission line discontinuities. Linear microwave transmission line with distributed parameters. 90o hybrid, magic T, couplers. Resonators. Gyrotropic medium propagation, circulators and isolators. Space and ground waves. Ionosphere wave propagation. Directional and impedance antenna properties of systems. Antenna measurements. Dipoles. Antenna arrays and Yagi antennas. Antenna characteristic design and synthesis. Wide-band, horn, reflector and lens antennas. Electromagnetic compatibility.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The following topics are studied: Basic types of transmission lines and their properties, discontinuities, scattering parameters and their measurements, linear RF circuits with distributed parameters: resonators, coupling and baluns, filters, non-reciprocal circuits. Special microwave devices, their functions and properties: varactors, Schottky diodes, Gunn diodes, RTD, MOSFET, HEMT, HBT, TWT, magnetrons and klystrons.
Students are able to orientate in RF and microwaves.
Prerequisites
The basic knowledge of electromagnetics, differentiation and integration are supposed.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

Students should demonstrate understating of solved problems.
Recommended literature
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp.
  • http://www.radioeng.cz/search.htm.
  • Bezoušek, Pavel. Elektrotechnika. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7395-101-6.
  • Černohorský, D. a kol. Elektromagnetické vlny a vedení. Brno: VUTIUM. 1999.. VUTIUM, 1999.
  • I. Kneppo a kol. Microwave integrated circuits. Chapmann and Hall, London, 1993.
  • M. Rothbauer a kol. Mikrovlnné polovodičové součástky a jejich použití. SNTL Praha, 1989.
  • Markus Zahn. Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Problem Solving Approach.
  • P. Lorrain a kol. Electromagnetic fields and waves. W. H. Freeman. N. York, 1996.
  • POZAR, D.M. Microwave engineering. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
  • Procházka, M. Antény. Encyklopedická příručka. BEN, 2000.
  • Ramo, S., Whinnery, J. R., Van Duzer, T. Fields and waves in communication electronics. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
  • Schejbal, Vladimír. Sbírka příkladů z elektrotechniky. 2012.


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