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Etc/Ece 7.1 Microwave Engineering

This document provides an overview of the ETC/ECE 7.1 Microwave Engineering course, including objectives, outcomes, units of instruction, experiments, and recommended readings. The course aims to provide understanding of microwave concepts like waveguides, devices, and networks. It covers topics such as propagation modes, impedance matching, passive circuits, microwave tubes, solid-state devices, and radar systems. Students will learn to analyze and design microwave networks, explain the operation of components, and perform measurements using equipment like vector network analyzers. The course assessments include exams, lab experiments, and a term project.

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Etc/Ece 7.1 Microwave Engineering

This document provides an overview of the ETC/ECE 7.1 Microwave Engineering course, including objectives, outcomes, units of instruction, experiments, and recommended readings. The course aims to provide understanding of microwave concepts like waveguides, devices, and networks. It covers topics such as propagation modes, impedance matching, passive circuits, microwave tubes, solid-state devices, and radar systems. Students will learn to analyze and design microwave networks, explain the operation of components, and perform measurements using equipment like vector network analyzers. The course assessments include exams, lab experiments, and a term project.

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ETC/ECE 7.

1 MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

Scheme of
Instruction Scheme of Examination
Subject Name of the Hrs/Week
Code Subject Th Marks
L T P Duration
(Hrs) Th S TW O P Total

ETC/ECE Microwave
4 -- 2 3 100 25 -- -- -- 125
7.1 Engineering

Course Objectives:
The subject aims to provide the student with:
1. An understanding of microwave waveguides, passive & active devices, tubes and
network analysis.
2. An ability to design microwave matching networks.
3. An ability to perform microwave measurements.
4. An understanding of RADARs and its applications.

Course Outcomes:
The student after undergoing this course will be able to:
1. Explain different types of waveguides and their respective modes of propagation.
2. Analyze typical microwave networks using impedance, admittance, transmission
and scattering matrix representations.
3. Design microwave matching networks using L section, single and double stub
and quarter wave transformer.
4. Explain working of microwave passive circuits such as isolator, circulator,
Directional couplers, attenuators etc.
5. Describe and explain working of microwave tubes and solid state devices.
6. Perform measurements on microwave devices and networks using power meter
and VNA.
7. Explain the operation of RADAR systems and recite their applications.

UNIT - 1 (16 hours)


Review of Transmission lines: Distributed elements concept, Telegrapher’s equations,
lossless and lossy lines, line impedance and junction, Smith Chart. General solutions for
TEM, TE and TM waves.
Waveguides: Rectangular, circular, coaxial cable and modes of propagation. Introduction
to stripline and microstripline.
Microwave networks: N-port microwave networks, impedance, admittance, transmission
and scattering matrix representations, reciprocal and lossless networks, network matrices
transformations.

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UNIT - 2 (16 hours)
Impedance matching and tuning: L-section impedance matching, single and double stub
matching, Quarter wave transformer.
Microwave passive circuits: Waveguide cavity resonators. Principles of E-plane Tee, H-
plane Tee, hybrid Tee, isolator, circulator, directional couplers, attenuators and phase
shifters. Microstrip: Design of Wilkinson power divider.

UNIT - 3 (16 hours)


Microwave tubes: Limitations of conventional tubes in the microwave frequency ranges.
Working principles of Klystron amplifier, Reflex klystron oscillator, Magnetrons, Traveling
wave tubes.
Microwave solid-state devices: Characteristics of microwave bipolar transistors and
FET, GUNN Diode, IMPATT Diode, PIN Diode.
Microwave measurements: fundamentals of power meter, transmission measurements
and reflection measurements. Vector network analyzer: Basic vector measurements,
architecture, calibration, material property measurements using VNA.

UNIT - 4 (16 hours)


Radar: Principle of operation of radar, maximum unambiguous range, radar range
equation, Radar block diagram, radar frequencies, and applications of radar. Probability of
Detection & False Alarm. Radar Cross Section of Targets. Continuous wave Radar, FM-CW
Radar.
MTI Radar: Principle of operation, block diagram. Blind speeds, staggered PRF’s.
Tracking Radar: Different methods of tracking, Sequential lobing, Conical Scanning,
amplitude & phase comparison Monopulse Radar.

Recommended Readings:
1. D. M. Pozar; Microwave Engineering, 3rd Ed.; John Wiley & Sons Inc
2. H.J.Reich, J.G.Skolnik, P.F.Ordung, H.L.Krauss; Microwave Principles; Affiliated East
West Press Ltd.
3. R. E. Collin; Foundations for Microwave Engineering, 2nd Ed; Wiley-IEEE Press
4. Merill Skolnik; Introduction to Radar Systems, 3rd Edition; Tata McGraw Hill
5. S. M. Liao; Microwave devices and Circuits, 3rd Ed.; Prentice Hall of India
6. Ananjan Basu; An Introduction to Microwave Measurements; CRC Press

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List of Experiments:
(At least 8 experiments should be conducted from the list of experiments.)
1. Characterization of E-Plane, H-Plane and Magic(Hybrid) Tee
2. Characterization of microwave Isolator and Circulator
3. Characterization of Microwave directional couplers
4. Characterization of Microwave attenuators
5. Characterization of Microwave phase shifters
6. Design of Wilkinson power divider
7. VI Characteristics of GUNN Diode
8. Study of PIN diode as a microwave switch
9. Operating modes of Klystron microwave source
10. Microwave measurements using a Vector Network Analyzer
a. Return loss
b. Insertion Loss
c. Bandwidth
d. Smith Chart
11. Study of a FM-CW radar
12. Impedance matching using Smith Chart
13. Operation of Vector Signal Generator and Analyzer

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