Description:

Subject is focused on the design of planar passive and active microwave circuits.

Contents:

1. Planar and monolithic technologies
2. Coupled transmission lines
3. Directional couplers
4. Hybrid power dividers - Lange, branch line and Rat-race, de Ronde coupler
5. Power dividers
6. Microwave planar resonators and filters
7. Gain definitions, stability of microwave amplifiers
8. Low-noise and power amplifiers
9. Narrow and broadband amplifiers
10. Parameters of rf nonlinear circuits: noise, intermodulation, compression
11. Microwave diode oscilators
12. Transistor oscilators
13. Rf and microwave detectors and mixers
14. Diode and transistor multipliers, limiters

Recommended literature:

1. K. Hoffmann, Aktivní mikrovlnné obvody, skripta, ČVUT FEL, 2003.
2. D. M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
3. R. E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering, 2nd ed., Wiley-IEEE Press, 2000.

Keywords:

amplifier, coupled lines, directional coupler, mixer, mulitplier, oscillator, power divider,

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar