Antenna and microwave techniques

• analyze and design transmission lines (rectangular waveguide, coaxial cables, microstrip, and stripline) and demonstrate knowledge of TEM, TE and TM waves
• use S-, Z-, Y-, ABCD parameters for the analysis of microwave networks
• design impedance matching circuits (discrete components, single and double stub, and quarter-wave transformer)
• analyze and design microwave resonators (lumped element equivalents, TEM transmission line resonators, and cavities) and demonstrate knowledge of resonator coupling mechanisms
• design power dividers and directional couplers and analyze symmetrical microwave networks using the even-odd mode excitation technique
• understand antenna fundamentals and simple radiating systems incl. simple antenna arrays
• analyze and design wire and loop antennas
• analyze and design broadband dipoles (and other selected antennas) and associated matching techniques
• analyze and design patch antennas using analytic approaches and commercial electromagnetic simulation software

Short review of microwave systems for wireless communication, radar and radiometer applications. Repetition of transmission line theory. Analysis and synthesis of planar transmission lines and waveguides. Microwave network analysis for waveguiding systems. Impedance transformation and matching. Microwave resonators, power dividers and directional couplers. Antenna fundamentals and simple radiation systems incl simple antenna arrays. Wire and loop antennas. Broadband antennas (dipoles). Patch antennas.

• 36 – 49 (Wed 8-17)

30400/30035/30405, The course requires basic knowledge of electromagnetics (Maxwell’s equations, plane waves, and transmission lines), circuit theory and knowledge about wireless communication systems (transmitters and receivers, RF circuits and antennas, noise, radio wave propagation, analogue and digital modulation).

Lectures, project and problem-solving.

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.