MICROWAVE ENGINEERING A - L

Anno accademico 2024/2025 - Docente: GINO SORBELLO

Risultati di apprendimento attesi

Knowledge and understanding: Understanding and ability to use various tools for the analysis, design and experimental characterization of waveguides, antennas and microwave devices.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to analyze microwave components and circuits making connection between different problems.

Making judgments: Deductive skills and critical reasoning. Ability to identify and compare the most appropriate methods for studying real problems.

Communication skills: Ability to expose both orally and through written reports with appropriate language and methodological rigor.

Learning skills: Ability to study new problems in a self-direct and autonomous way.

Modalità di svolgimento dell'insegnamento

Didattica tradizionale. Laboratorio.

Prerequisiti richiesti

Basic knowledge of electromagnetic fields theory with particular reference to propagation, guided propagation, transmission lines and antennas.

Frequenza lezioni

Lessons attendance: Not mandatory for frontal lessons. Not mandatory, but recommended, for laboratory.

Contenuti del corso

Complements of propagation and transmission media: (3 CFU – 21 h)

Guided propagation: rectangular and circular metallic waveguides. Losses in waveguides. Resonant cavities. Microstrip line. Dielectric slab waveguide. Optical fibers.

Anisotropic media: (2 CFU – 14 h)

Reciprocal media. Magnetized plasma. Propagation in magnetized plasma*. Faraday rotation.

Microwave antennas: (2 CFU – 14 h)

Equivalent sources. Aperture antennas: horn antennas, paraboloidal reflectors, slot antennas. Microstrip antennas*. Uda-Yagi antenna.

Topics lectures in collaboration with companies, universities and research canters (1 CFU – 7 h):

Laser sources. Periodic structures,photonic crystals and metasurfaces*. Antennas and MIMO systems for 5G*.

Laboratory (1 CFU – 25 h):

Microwave circuits. Impedance matrix Z and scattering matrix S. Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). 1-port and 2-port calibration. 1-port, 2-port, 3-port and 4-port microwave devices. Experimental characterisation of microwave components and circuits and/or design of components and microwaves antennas with electromagnetic CAD*. Antenna Test Range: measurements and/or techniques for gain and radiation pattern measurement in an anechoic chamber*.

DEGREE THESIS: The topics marked with an asterisk (*) may be the subject of further study in the context of the degree thesis.

Testi di riferimento

[1] R. Sorrentino e G. Bianchi, "Microwave and RF Engineering", John Wiley & Sons 2010

[2] R. E. Collin, "Foundations for Microwave Engineering" (IEEE Press)

[3] C. G. Someda, "Electromagnetic Waves", CRC Press.

[4] S. J. Orfanidis, "Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas" (http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~orfanidi/ewa/)

[5] F. T. Ulaby, U. Ravaioli "Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics" (7th Edition), Pearson Education

Programmazione del corso

 ArgomentiRiferimenti testi
1TE, TM and TEM fields.1
2Rectangular waveguide1
3Circular cross section waveguide1
4Microstip line4
5Loss attenuation and power handling in real waveguides1

Verifica dell'apprendimento

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Prova orale.

A garanzia di pari opportunità e nel rispetto delle leggi vigenti, gli studenti interessati possono chiedere un colloquio personale in modo da programmare eventuali misure compensative e/o dispensative, in base agli obiettivi didattici ed alle specifiche esigenze. È possibile rivolgersi anche al docente referente CInAP (Centro per l’integrazione Attiva e Partecipata - Servizi per le Disabilità e/o i DSA) del proprio Dipartimento.

Esempi di domande e/o esercizi frequenti

Discussion of experimental laboratory experiences and exercises.
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