Course Description: Passive microwave devices such as phase shifters, power dividers, directional couplers, hybrids, isolators, circulators, filters, mixers and detectors will be studied in this course. Active microwave amplifier design and system noise will be covered. The principles of microwave communication systems, radars and radiometers will also be discussed.

Course Objectives: Students will learn the fundamental principles of and design techniques for microwave power dividers, directional couplers, hybrids, ferrite devices, periodic structures, microwave filters, microwave detectors and mixers, and microwave transistor amplifier design. The course also introduces the concepts of noise, noise temperature and noise figure, and applications to microwave communication systems, radars, and other microwave systems.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Microwave power dividers, directional couplers and hybrids

Periodic structures, k-Beta diagrams, constant-k and m-derived filters

Filter theory - Image parameter and insertion loss methods

Frequency and impedance transformations; Kuroda's Identities

Coupled line directional couplers and coupled line filters

Ferrite properties, wave propagation in ferrite media

Ferrite isolators, phase shifters, circulators

Noise in microwave systems, noise temperature, noise figure, SNR

Active microwave circuits, detectors, mixers, transistor amplifier gain and stability

Design of single-stage transistor amplifiers

Characterization of microwave communication systems, radars and radiometers

Friis transmission formula, radar equation, microwave propagation

Course Requirements:

Homework: Approximately 13 assignments, 4 or 5 problems each.

Examinations: One midterm exam and one final

Computer Language: No programming languages are required, but students can greatly enhance their learning experience by familiarity with an advanced mathematics software package such as MATLAB, Mathematica or MathCAD. For some of the assigned problems, these software packages can be very helpful in solutions, graphs, etc.

Computer Requirements: Access to CAD microwave software, e.g. Ansoft Serenade, Harmonica, SuperCompact, HP EESof Touchstone, HP-MDS, MMICAD, etc. is required. A student version of Serenade can be downloaded from Ansoft for free.

Laboratory: No

Project: Homework will include two microwave filter design projects.

Note: DVDs are viewable on computer or set-top DVD players that are capable of playing DVD-R discs.

UMail - University of Massachusetts Email Account - REQUIRED

All students are required to activate a University email account known as Umail. This is a FREE service to all students. As an NTU student, if this is your first time registering for a course from UMass you will receive instructions from the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) on the process to activate your account. You should act upon this immediately. Please note this account must be activated for UMass Administrative purposes, as well as for your class. All notes and files pertaining to your class will be mailed to the UMail address the University has identified for you. You may choose to forward files from that address to a personal account. As always, free email services such as yahoo mail will not be robust enough for the volume we send. Do not rely upon these types of accounts. Your UMail account, which is free of charge to you, will have the necessary capacity to handle the incoming volume of mail associated with your academic class. If you need assistance contact UMass via email, peeas@ecs.umass.edu or by telephone 413-545-0063.

Notes:

Scheduled Sequence Course - offered every Spring Semester.

Delivery charge: Non-refundable Online conversion fee $75. Billed by NTU.

Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[E]
MBA[NA]	ME[E]	MES[BE]	MSE[E]	SE[NA]	SY[AA]

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NTU Semester Credit Hours: 3
Number of Lecture Hours: 27 (75 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Tuesday/Thursday

Contributing Scholar:
Keith R. Carver
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA   01003
Phone: 413-545-1665

Fax: 413-545-4611
kcarver@zonker.ecs.umass.edu
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/ece585

Note: Contributing Scholars are responsible for the design, organization, content, and presentation of NTU courses. Online classroom management, student management, and other matters related to academic administration of courses are the responsibility of support "Faculty". Either person is often called "Instructor". To identify and differentiate between these roles, we use the terms "Contributing Scholar" and "Faculty".

Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Ms. Barbara Barnett
Phone: 413-545-0063
Fax: 413-545-1227
bbarnett@ecs.umass.edu


Prerequisites: EM 530 - Electromagnetic theory through transmission line and wave guide analysis, scattering parameters, passive microwave network analysis, matching networks, resonant microwave circuits, signal flow graphs.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Microwave Engineering, D. Pozar, John Wiley, 3rd edition, 2004
2.	Reference texts (not required): Foundations for Microwave Engineering, R. E. Collin, McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed, 1996; An Introduction to Guided Waves and Microwave Circuits, R.S. Elliott, Prentice Hall, 1993.
3.	A set of 22 lecture notes will be provided along with supplemental material on microstrip and stripline devices. The required course notes will be sent via pdf format. If paper notes are required, a fee of $30 will be charged prior to shipping.