EEC403: MICROWAVE ENGINEERING
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Module I 8 hours
Transferred Electron Devices: Introduction, GUNN effect diodes (GaAs
diode), GUNN diode principle of operation (RWH theory), modes of
operation, LSA diodes, microwave generation and amplification.
Module II 10 hours
Avalanche Transit Time Devices: Introduction, read diode, IMPATT
Diodes: Physical structures, negative resistance, power output and efficiency,
TRAPATT diodes: Physical structures, principles of operation, power output
and efficiency, parametric devices: Physical structure, nonlinear reactance
and Manley-rowe power relations, parametric amplifiers, applications.
Module III 8 hours
Microwave Linear Beam Tubes: Conventional vacuum triodes, tetrodes
and pentodes, high frequency limitations of conventional tubes. Klystrons:
Reentrant cavities, velocity modulation process, bunching process, output
power and beam loading, Reflex Klystron: Velocity modulation, power
output and efficiency, electronic admittance.
Module IV 8 hours
Helix Travelling Wave guides: Slow wave structures, amplification
process, convection current, axial electric field, wave modes, gain
considerations. Microwave Crossed-Field Tubes: Magnetron oscillators-
types, principle of operation of cylindrical magnetron, equations of electron
motion, cyclotron angular frequency, pi-mode separation.
Module V 8 hours
Microwave Measurements: Introduction, microwave bench measurement
setup, frequency and wavelength measurements, measurement of power,
VSWR, impedance, coupling and directivity of directional coupler, dielectric
constant and phase shift constant.
Text Book(s)
1. Samuel Y. Liao, Microwave Devices and Circuits, 3/e, Prentice Hall of India,
2003.
2. Sushrut Das, Microwave Engineering, 1/e, Oxford University Press, 2014.
References
1. Gottapu Sasibhushana Rao, Microwave and Radar Engineering, 1/e, Pearson
Education, 2014.
2. R.E. Collins, Foundations of Microwave Engineering, 1/e, Tata McGraw Hill,
2007.
3. Michael Steer, Microwave and RF Design: A Systems Approach, 1/e, YesDee,
2012.
4. Inder Bahl, Prakash Bhartia, Microwave Solid State Circuit Design, 2/e ,Wiley,
2011.
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