David Pozar "Microwave Engineering", 3rd ed. Wiley 2005

The exam is in each semester and for every student bilingual.

ILIAS:

All information and material about lecture and exercise can be found in ILIAS (see Link above).

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Content of the Lecture:

• Electromagnetic Theory
  • Maxwell‘ Equations
  • Plane waves: Fields in media, wave solution, reflection
• Transmission Lines and Waveguides
  • Rectangular and circular waveguides (filled, unfilled, different modes)
  • TE- and TM- waves, boundary conditions
  • Different line types (microstrip, stripline, CPW, ...)
• Microwave Network Analysis
  • Scattering matrices, ABCD matrices
• Impedance Matching and Tuning
• Microwave resonators
  • Rectangular and circular resonators (resonant frequencies, different modes)
• Power Dividers and Directional Couplers
  • Different coupler and power splitter types (Wilkinson, Branchline, Rat-Race, ...)
• Microwave Filters
  • Richards transformation, Kuroda Identities, Different Filter types (periodic structures)
• Theory and Design of Ferrimagnetic Components
  • Definition of ferrimagnetic components
  • Examples of components (Circulators, Phase shifters,...)
• Active Components
  • Oscillator, Mixer and Amplifier