Syllabus

Introduction to Wireless Systems: Classification of wireless systems; Design and performance issues include the choice of operating frequency, multiple access and duplexing, circuit switching versus packet switching, propagation, radiated power and safety; Cellular telephone systems and standards. Noise and Distortion in Microwave Systems cover basic threshold detection, noise temperature and noise figure, noise figure of a lossy transmission line, and noise figure of cascade systems which include noise figure of passive networks, two-port networks, mismatched transmission lines, and Wilkinson power dividers. It also discusses dynamic range and inter-modulation distortion.

Resonators focus on the principles of microwave resonators, loaded, unloaded and external Q, open and shorted TEM lines as resonators, microstrip resonators, and dielectric resonators.

Power Dividers and Couplers examine the scattering matrix of - and -port junctions, design of T-junction and Wilkinson power dividers, and the design of 90° and 180° hybrids.

Filters are analyzed through periodic structures, Floquet’s theorem, and filter design by the insertion loss method, including maximally flat and Chebyshev designs.

Microwave Amplifier Design compares active devices such as BJT, MOSFET, MESFET, HEMT, and HBT, circuit models for FETs and BJTs, two-port power gains, and the stability of transistor amplifier circuits. Amplifier design using S-parameters includes design for maximum gain, maximum stable gain, design for specified gain, low-noise amplifier design, and design of class-A power amplifiers.

Mixers cover mixer characteristics like image frequency, conversion loss, and noise figure, and devices for mixers such as PN junctions, Schottky barrier diode, and FETs. Diode mixers include small-signal characteristics of diode, single-ended mixer, large-signal model, and switching model. FET Mixers cover single-ended mixers and other FET mixers, balanced mixers, and image reject mixers.

Switches discuss devices for microwave switches such as PIN diode, BJT, and FET, including device models, types of switches, switch configurations, basic theory of switches, and multi-port, broad-band, and isolation switches.

Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers include general analysis of RF oscillators, transistor oscillators, voltage-controlled oscillators, dielectric resonator oscillators, frequency synthesis methods, analysis of first and second order phase-locked loop, and oscillator noise and its effect on receiver performance.