MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

Complements of Electromagnetic Field and Propagation

Electromagnetic potentials for guided propagation, TM, TE, TEM modes. Normalization and possible definition for equivalents voltage and current.
Circular waveguide, losses in waveguides.
Resonant cavities.
Microstrip line, Dielectric slab, Optic fiber.

Microwave passive components and circuits

Reciprocity theorem.
Microwave circuits, Z matrix, ABCD matrix, S matrix. S matrix property: reciprocal and lossless devices, connection between S and Z matrices, displacement of reference planes.
Flow charts: reduction rules.
1-port device: matched load, short circuit.
2-port device: attenuators and phase shifter, electronic phase shifter.
3-port device: general properties, circulator, T and Y junctions, power divider.
4-port device: general properties, directional coupler, magic T.

Antennas and Antenna Array

Equivalence theorem, Image theorem.
Microstrip antenna*.
Aperture antenna: field radiated by apertures, field radiated by rectangular waveguide, directivity, sectorial horn antenna, horn antenna.
Parabolic antenna.
Antennas alignment, broad-side and end-fire alignments, maximum directivity and beam amplitude. Uda-Yagi antenna.
Planar Arrays. Principles of MIMO systems*.

Non-reciprocal and anisotropic media

Magnetized plasma, propagation of plane waves in a magnetized plasma*. Faraday rotation.
Magnetized ferrite, operating principles of the waveguide isolator with magnetized ferrite.

Applications of microwave engineering

Periodic line. Introduction to Photonic Crystals*.
Radar, radar cross section. Scattering equation.
Mechanisms of interaction between electromagnetic fields and biological systems.
Magnetic Nuclear Resonance.
Microwave diagnostics and tomography*.
Laser.

Laboratory

Vector Network Analyzer (VNA).
1-port (SOL) calibration.
2-port calibration: SOLT and TRL calibration.
Smith's Chart.
Two-hole directional coupler, Moreno directional coupler.
Measurement of the scattering matrix of microwave components.
Numerical methods in electromagnetics: advanced design of patch antennas*.
Antenna Test Range: Antenna gain and radiation pattern measurement.

THESIS: Topics marked with asterisk (*) can be matter for degree thesis.