Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: RF and microwave electronics (17.EM408A)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Type of studies	Title

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Electronics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	6

Educational goal:

Students will acquire fundamental knowledge in the field of RF and microwave electronics with the focus on modern microwave components. They will be familiar with principles of operation and design of passive components and circuits used at frequencies above 1 GHz. Training students to analyze the microwave networks by using the scattering parameters through solving practical problems. Getting acquainted with the experimental characterization of microwave components.

Educational outcome:

Fundamental theoretical and practical engineering knowledge about the modern microwave components used at frequencies above 1 GHz. Capability to understand principles of operation, potentials and limitations of components and circuits used in the state of the art and next generation of wireless systems (5G). Ability to independently analyze the microwave networks by using the scattering parameters, as well as experimental characterization. Acquiring knowledge necessary as a basis for CAD design of microwave passive circuits in the course Modeling and simulation of RF and microwave circuits.

Course content:

Electromagnetic spectrum. Classification of radio and microwaves. Maxwell's equations in complex (frequency) domain. Propagation of electromagnetic waves in lossless and lossy media. TEM, TM, TE and hybrid waves. Power and attenuation. Poynting vector. Polarization and application. Reflection and transmission. Standing electromagnetic waves. Transmission lines (telegrapher's equations, propagation constant, characteristic and input impedances, voltage standing wave ratio–VSWR, phase and group velocity). Lossless transmission lines. Distortionless transmission lines. Special cases of lossless terminated lines. Quarter–wave impedance transformer. Junction of two transmission lines with different characteristic impedances. Return loss. Insertion loss. Generator matched to loaded line for maximum power transfer. Conjugate matching. Smith chart. Basic circuits for impedance matching (L network, single–stub network, double–stub network). Coaxial transmission line. Planar transmission lines (microstrip, stripline, coplanar). Waveguides. Rectangular and circular waveguides. Microwave network analysis. Z, Y, ABCD and S matrices. Definition and properties of scattering parameters. Basics of microwave measurements and characterization. Measurement of S–parameters by vector network analyzer (VNA).

Teaching methods:

Lectures. Auditory practices. Consultations

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Juraj Bartolić	Mikrovalna elektronika	2011	Graphis	Croatian
David M. Pozar	Microwave Engineering	2012	John Wiley & Sons	English
Vladimir V. Petrović, Dejan V. Tošić, Antonije R. Đorđević	Mikrotalasna pasivna kola	2010	Elektrotehnički fakultet u Beogradu	Serbian language