9794278 - MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

Knowledge and understanding: Understanding and ability to use various tools for the analysis, design and experimental characterization of waveguides, antennas and microwave devices.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to analyze microwave components and circuits making connection between different problems.

Making judgments: Deductive skills and critical reasoning. Ability to identify and compare the most appropriate methods for studying real problems.

Communication skills: Ability to expose both orally and through written reports with appropriate language and methodological rigor.

Learning skills: Ability to study new problems in a self-direct and autonomous way.

Complements of propagation and transmission media: (3 CFU – 21 h)

Guided propagation: rectangular and circular metallic waveguides. Losses in waveguides. Resonant cavities. Microstrip line. Dielectric slab waveguide. Optical fibers.

Anisotropic media: (2 CFU – 14 h)

Reciprocal media. Magnetized plasma. Propagation in magnetized plasma*. Faraday rotation.

Microwave antennas: (2 CFU – 14 h)

Equivalent sources. Aperture antennas: horn antennas, paraboloidal reflectors, slot antennas. Microstrip antennas*. Uda-Yagi antenna.

Topics lectures in collaboration with companies, universities and research canters (1 CFU – 7 h):

Laser sources. Periodic structures,photonic crystals and metasurfaces*. Antennas and MIMO systems for 5G*.

Laboratory (1 CFU – 25 h):

Microwave circuits. Impedance matrix Z and scattering matrix S. Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). 1-port and 2-port calibration. 1-port, 2-port, 3-port and 4-port microwave devices. Experimental characterisation of microwave components and circuits and/or design of components and microwaves antennas with electromagnetic CAD*. Antenna Test Range: measurements and/or techniques for gain and radiation pattern measurement in an anechoic chamber*.

DEGREE THESIS: The topics marked with an asterisk (*) may be the subject of further study in the context of the degree thesis.

[1] R. Sorrentino e G. Bianchi, "Microwave and RF Engineering", John Wiley & Sons 2010

[2] R. E. Collin, "Foundations for Microwave Engineering" (IEEE Press)

[3] C. G. Someda, "Electromagnetic Waves", CRC Press.

[4] S. J. Orfanidis, "Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas" (http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~orfanidi/ewa/)

[5] F. T. Ulaby, U. Ravaioli "Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics" (7th Edition), Pearson Education