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Course Catalog 2013-2014
ELT-47246 Passive RF Circuits, 5 cr |
Person responsible
Toni Björninen
Lessons
| Study type | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | Summer | Implementations | Lecture times and places |
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Requirements
Exam and project.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Learning Outcomes
After passing the course, students know how to analyze, design, implement and measure common passive microwave components and how to summarize the design methods and relevant results in a technical report.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Microwave circuit theory. Impedance and admittance matrices, chain parameters, scattering parameters. | ||
| 2. | Passive microwave components: power dividers, hybrids, couplers, filters,... | ||
| 3. | Project. Wilkinson power divider, directional coupler, branch-line hybrid, ring hybrid, microstrip stub filter. | Modern simulation software: AWR Microwave Office. |
Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes
Student has to pass the exam and complete the project work. Bonus points can be collected from optional homework submissions.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Book | Microwave Engineering, 2nd ed. | David M. Pozar | 0-471-17096-8 | Ch. 4,7,8 | Yes | English | |
| Lecture slides | Toni Björninen | Available in Moodle. | Yes | English | |||
| Other literature | Software manuals | CST AG, AWR Corp. | Available in Moodle. | No | English |
Additional information about prerequisites
Basic knowledge of electromagnetics and electronics. Fabrication of circuit boards, measurements with vector network analyzer.
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
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Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 % |