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Microwave Engineering (ECE329) : Unit - I

This document outlines the units of study for a Microwave Engineering course. The five units cover: 1) microwave fundamentals and transmission lines, 2) microwave waveguides and components, 3) microwave semiconductor devices, 4) microwave linear-beam and crossed-field tubes, and 5) microwave measurements. Key topics include rectangular and circular waveguides, passive microwave devices, Gunn diodes, klystrons, magnetrons, and measurement techniques like slotted lines and VSWR meters.

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Microwave Engineering (ECE329) : Unit - I

This document outlines the units of study for a Microwave Engineering course. The five units cover: 1) microwave fundamentals and transmission lines, 2) microwave waveguides and components, 3) microwave semiconductor devices, 4) microwave linear-beam and crossed-field tubes, and 5) microwave measurements. Key topics include rectangular and circular waveguides, passive microwave devices, Gunn diodes, klystrons, magnetrons, and measurement techniques like slotted lines and VSWR meters.

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Microwave Engineering (ECE329)

Unit – I: Introduction 4 lectures


Microwave frequency, Applications of Microwave, microwave transmission line, Introduction to
Micro strip Transmission line (TL), Coupled TL, Strip TL, Coupled Strip Line, Coplanar TL.

Unit – II: Microwave waveguides and components 8 lectures


Rectangular Wave Guide: Field Components, TE, TM Modes, Dominant (TE10) mode, Power
Transmission, Power losses, Excitation of modes, Circular Waveguides:
TE, TM modes, Microwave cavities (Resonators), Scattering matrix- The transmission matrix,
Passive microwave devices: Microwave Hybrid Circuits, E Plane Tee, H plane Tee and Magic
Tee , Terminations, Attenuators, Phase Shifters, Directional Couplers: Two Hole directional
couplers, S Matrix of a Directional coupler, Hybrid Couplers, Isolators, Circulators.

Unit – III: Microwave Semiconductor Devices 6 lectures


Operation, characteristics and application of BJTs and FETs, Principles and characterstics: -tunnel
diodes, Varactor diodes, PIN diode, Schottky diodes, Transferred Electron Devices : Gunn
diode(Gunn Effect, RWH theory, two valley model theory, modes of operation), Avalanche
Transit time devices: IMPATT and TRAPATT devices.

Unit – IV: Microwave linear-beam tubes (O TYPE) and microwave crossed-field tubes (M
TYPE) 10 lectures
Klystrons, Reentrant Cavities, Velocity-Modulation Process, Bunching Process, Output Power and
Beam Loading, Multicavity Klystron Amplifiers, Beam-Current Density, Output Current Output
Power of Two-Cavity Klystron, Reflex Klystrons, Velocity Modulation, Power Output and
Efficiency, Helix Traveling-Wave Tubes (TWTs), Slow-Wave structures, Amplification Process,
Convection Current, Axial Electric Field, Wave Modes, Gain Consideration, Microwave Crossed-
Field Tubes , Magnetron Oscillators, Cylindrical Magnetron, Coaxial Magnetron, Tunable
Magnetron , Backward wave Oscillators

Unit – V: Microwave Measurements 8 lectures


Introduction, Microwave Measurements devices: Slotted line carriage, Tunable detectors, VSWR
Meter, microwave power measurements techniques, frequency measurement, wavelength
measurements, Impedance and Refection coefficient measurements, VSWR, Insertion and
attenuation measurements: Power ratio method, RF substitution method, VSWR
measurements(Low and High)

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