MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

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 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.

The course includes lectures, experimental laboratory experiences and exercises aimed at deepening the contents of the lessons.

If the teaching is given in mixed or remote mode, some variations may be introduced in compliance with the program and the purposes stated in the syllabus.

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

Complements of propagation and transmission media:

Guided propagation. Losses in waveguides. Resonant cavities. Microstrip line. Dielectric slab waveguide. Optical fibers.

Anisotropic media:

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

Antennas:

Equivalent sources. Linear and planar arrays *. Aperture antennas. Microstrip antennas*.

Topics:

Laser sources. Periodic structures and photonic crystals*. Antennas and MIMO systems for 5G*. Radar and electromagnetic scattering*. Radioprotection from non-ionizing fields principles and regulation*.

Laboratory:

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 characterization of microwave components and circuits and/or design of components and microwaves antennas with electromagnetic CAD*. Antenna Test Tange: measurements and/or techniques of gain and radiation pattern measurement in an anechoic chamber*. Wideband and narrowband measurements*.

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

Textbook Information

[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