ECE 6360 – Microwave Design Spring 2008
Instructor: Prof. John Papapolymerou
2456 Klaus (Please notice
Lectures: 3:05-4:25 pm MW
this new room assignment!!!)
Office: 417 TSRB
Office hours: MW 1:00-2:00 pm, other times by arrangement
Office phone: 404-385-6004
TA: Mr. Bo Pan (panbo@ece.gatech.edu), Office hours: 3:30pm-5:00pm TTh
e-mail: papapol@ece.gatech.edu
e-mail list: ece6360a@ece.gatech.edu
Web Site: http://www.mirctech.gatech.edu/ece6360
Text: David M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 3rd Edition, J. Wiley & Sons.
Prerequisite: ECE 3025 or equivalent and graduate standing. I will assume that students have a
familiarity with undergraduate electromagnetic field theory and transmission lines. Heavily-used
material (transmission lines, Smith charts, impedance matching) will be reviewed.
Grading policy:
Homework: 10 %
Projects: 25 %
2 quizzes: 17.5 % each
Final exam: 30 %
The last day to drop the class with a grade of “W” is February 29, 2008.
Homework and exam policy:
Problems will be assigned at regular intervals and collected. Solutions will be made
available with the graded problems.
There will be in-class quizzes on February 11 and March 24, 2008. There will be
absolutely no changes to these dates. The final exam will be given at the scheduled time
during exam week, tentatively set for Friday May 2, 2008 from 11:30–2:20 PM.
Academic Conduct:
Students in this class are expected to abide by the Georgia Tech Honor Code and avoid any
instance of academic misconduct, including but not limited to:
Possessing, using, or exchanging improperly acquired oral or written information
in the preparation of a quiz or exam.
Submission of material that is substantially identical to that created or published
by another individual, except as noted below.
False claims of performance or work that has been submitted by the student.
Students may work in groups of 2-3 in the preparation of homework assignments, provided that
each student makes a “good faith” effort to contribute to the group effort and turns in their own
write-up of the assignment.
See the Georgia Tech Honor Code for further information.
ECE 6360 Syllabus Papapolymerou
Date Lec. # Topic Section
Transmission Lines
1/7 1 Introduction to course - Review of Maxwell's equations, boundary 1.2-1.4
conditions
1/9 2 Wave equations and solutions, energy and power - Transmission line 1.5-1.6, 2.1-2.3
parameters
1/14 3 The Smith Chart - The Slotted Line and quarter-wave transformer 2.4, 2.4-2.5, 5.4
1/16 4 Generator and load mismatches – Lossy transmission lines 2.6-2.7
1/21 MLK Holiday – No classes
1/23 5 HP-ADS Demonstration - Matching with lumped elements 5.1, 5.2
1/28 6 Single stub matching - Double stub matching 5.2-5.3
1/30 7 Theory of small reflections – Binomial and Chebyshev transformers - 5.5 - 5.7
Project 1 assigned
2/4 8 Tapered lines – TEM, TE and TM waves 5.8, 3.1
2/6 9 Parallel plate waveguide – Rectangular waveguide 3.2 – 3.3
2/11 Quiz #1
2/13 10 Rectangular waveguide, coaxial cables and connectors 3,3, 3.5
2/18 11 Stripline, microstrip, CPW and dispersion 3.8,3.10, 3.11
2/20 12 Impedance and equiv. voltages & currents, Z & Y matrices 4.1-4.2
2/25 13 Scattering matrix and transmission matrix 4.2-4.4
2/27 14 Examples of S-matrices, signal flow graphs 4.5
3/3 15 Network analyzer measurements and calibration techniques, Filter design Notes, 4.3, 8.3
3/5 16 Filter transformations and implementations 8.4, 8.5
3/10 17 Stepped impedance low-pass filters and coupled line filters – Projects 2 8.5
and 3 assigned
3/12 18 Filters using coupled resonators - Basic properties of dividers and couplers 8.6-8.8, 7.1
3/17- SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS
3/21
3/24 Quiz#2
3/26 19 T-junction and the Wilkinson power divider 7.1-7.3
3/31 20 The quadrature hybrid and coupled line couplers - Designs Due 7.5-7.6
4/2 21 180o Hybrid, magic Tee – Diodes and detectors 7.8, 10.2
4/7 22 Diodes, detectors and noise in microwave systems 10.2, 10.1
4/9 23 Single diode mixers, balanced mixers 10.2
4/14 24 Lab
4/16 25 Balanced mixers, microwave transistors 10.2, 11.1
4/21 26 Microwave transistors, gain and stability – Project Reports Due 11.1-11.2
4/23 27 Research topics, review – Project Reports Due
5/2 FINAL EXAM – 11:30-2:20 PM