EHB 451E - Active Microwave Circuits

Course Objectives

1. To give the methods used for circuit and system analysis and synthesis in microwave frequencies.
2. To give design procedures for microwave circuits and devices such as amplifiers, oscillators, integrated circuits.
3. To practise computer aided design.

Course Description

Noise in microwave systems. Circuit analysis using S parameters, solid state amplifiers and oscillators, detectors, mixers, switches and phase shifters. Microwave integrated circuits, computer simulations, reciprocal and non-reciprocal passive devices, filters, examples for computer aided design of active and passive circuits.