Course Description: Modern telecommunications and datacom systems operate at frequencies in the radio frequency (RF) and microwave range. This is true even for lightwave systems, in which the modulation frequencies are in this range. The basic concepts and technologies required to design RF and microwave devices and circuits will be explained. Examples of applications to wireless and lightwave systems will be discussed.

Course Objectives: To provide an understanding of basic concepts and technologies required to design RF and microwave devices and circuits, as well as applications to wireless and lightwave systems.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Circuit Representations of RF and Microwave Networks

Smith Chart Analysis

Smith Chart Applications

Impedance Matching Networks

RF & Microwave Bipolar Transistors

RF & Microwave Field Effect Transistors

RF & Microwave Amplifiers

RF & Microwave Oscillators

RF & Microwave Mixers

RF & Microwave Control Circuits

RF & Microwave Integrated Circuits

RF & Microwave Applications

RADAR

Terrestrial Communications

Satellite Communications

Wireless Communications

Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) System

Course Requirements:

Homework: Approximately 10 assignments

Examinations: Midterm and Final

Computer Language(s): None

Computer Facilities: None

Laboratory: None

Project: None

Notes:

Students admitted in the Electrical Engineering Program will only receive credit for EM 732-DE or EM 735-DE but not both.

Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[NA]
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: 25 (75 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Class will meet 2 times a week

Contributing Scholar:
Robert G. Hunsperger
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Delaware
214 Evans Hall
Newark, DE   19716
Phone: 302-831-8031

Fax: 302-831-8179
hunsperg@udel.edu

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Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Baerbel Schumacher
Phone: 302-831-4036
Fax: 302-831-4913
ntu-students@udel.edu


Prerequisites: Undergraduate courses in field theory and solid state electronics.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Radio Frequency and Microwave Electronics Illustrated, Matthew M. Radmanesh, Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN 0130279587.
2.	Supplemental Text (not required): "Physics of Semiconductor Devices," S. M. Sze, Wiley, 2nd edition, 1981 or an equivalent text on semiconductor devices.