Advanced Microwave Techniques and High Speed Electronics

• design microwave filters using transmission lines, resonators, directional couplers, and impedance- and admittance inverter transform techniques
• understand the design of microwave low-noise amplifiers
• use circuit analysis techniques for nonlinear microwave circuits
• design and analyze mixer and oscillator circuits
• design and analyze power amplifiers in class A, AB, B and C
• apply CAD tools for the design and analysis of microwave circuits
• understand the physical structure and operation of active high-frequency semiconductor devices.
• analyse the transient behaviour due to reflections from realistic loads
• explain cross-coupling between transmission lines and analyse the effect of crosstalk in high speed circuits
• use S-parameters and their relation to time-domain behaviour of 1- and 2-ports
• use microwave network analysis to model vias and non-uniform transmission lines

Design of microwave filters. Nonlinear microwave circuit analysis. Active microwave devices and circuits, design of microwave transistor amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Use of CAD for microwave circuit design and analysis. Signal integrity in high speed electronics.

30405/30415/30400/30035/30410, Wireless Communications, RF Communications Circuits, and Electromagnetics. Knowledge of semiconductor devices’ structure and operation is an advantage. Basics of Fourier and Laplace transformation methods.

Lectures, group tutorials, project work, computer exercises, home assignments and lab exercises.

Minimum: 10.

Please be aware that this course will only be held if the required minimum number of participants is met. You will be informed 8 days before the start of the course, whether the course will be held.