ECE402

Version No.:
Prerequisite:

Microwave Engineering
1.10
ECE306 Antennas and Wave Propagation

L T P C
3 0 2 4

Objectives
Analyze the passive circuits using Scattering parameters.
Understand the various types of microwave semiconductor devices
Design the microwave filters and implement in micro strip form
Use smith chart to design amplifier using matching network
Expected Outcome
1. Distinguish microwave IEEE frequency bands based on their application(A)
2. Analyze various microwave networks to study its characteristics (A,C,E)
3. Perform design and simulation of microwave circuits(A,C,E,H)
4. Infer and evaluate the performance of designed microwave networks (A,C,E)
5. Distinguish the requirement of microwave source for various applications
6. Determine stability condition and design microwave amplifier.
Unit I
Microwave measurement and application
Microwave frequencies (IEEE Standards), Microwave measurements- Guide wavelength VSWRFrequency, Impedance. Applications of Microwaves: Microwave Oven, Radar, Wireless
applications.
Unit II
Microwave Network Analysis
Impedance and admittance matrix- Reciprocal Networks and Lossless networks, Scattering
matrix- The transmission matrix, Signal Flow graph Decomposition of Signal Flow graphs.
Unit III
Microwave Sources and Semiconductor Devices
Microwave Tubes: Travelling Wave Tube (TWT), Klystron oscillator, Reflex Klystron, Magnetron.
Semiconductor Devices: Tunnel diode, Gunn diode, IMPATT-TRAPATT-BARITT diodes,
microwave transistors.
Unit IV
Microwave Passive Components(Wave Guide)
Power dividers: E-Plane Tee, H-Plane Tee, Magic Tee, Directional Coupler.
Ferrite Devices: Phase Shifter, Isolator, Circulator, Microwave Resonators.
Wave guide cavities: Rectangular Cavity, Circular Cavity.
Unit V
Design of Microwave Passive and active Circuits :
Microstrip lines : Basics of Microstrip lines.
Power Dividers: T junction, resistive power divider, Wilkinson Power Divider, Branch Line
Coupler, Rat race ring (180o hybrid coupler).
Microwave Filters: Low Pass Filter design (Butterworth and Chebyshev) - Insertion loss method:
Richards Transformation, Kurodas identities, Stepped impedance low pass filter.
Microwave Active circuits
Microwave amplifiers, Stability, Single stage transistor amplifier, Maximum gain method.
Textbooks:
1. D. M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, John Wiley, 3/e, 2005.
2. Samuel Y. Liao, Microwave Devices and Circuits,3/e, PHI, New Delhi, 2002.

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Reference Books
1. Robert E. Coughlin, Foundations of Microwave Engineering, John Wiley, 3/e, 2001.
2. Annapurna Dasand S, K. Das, Microwave Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi,
2000.
3. O.P. Gandhi, Microwave Engineering, Pergamon Press, NY, 2003.
4. M.L. Sisodia, Microwave active devices- Vaccum and Solid States New Age International,
2004.
5. M.L. Sisodia, Microwave circuit and Passive devices New Age International, 2004.
Mode of Evaluation:

CAT- I & II, Quizzes, Assignments/ other tests, Term End

Examination.

ECE402

Microwave Engineering Lab

List of Experiments:
Design & Simulation using Software
1.

Branch Line Coupler

2.

Power Divider

3.

Filter

4.

Amplifier

5.

Oscillator

6.

Circuit Mixer

7.

Low Noise Amplifier

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