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ECE 478 - Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Circuits

Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3.8
Approved Hours 3-0-3/2
Fee index 8
Faculty Engineering
Department Electrical & Computer Engg
Typically Offered either term

Description
Introduction to RF/microwave/millimetre-wave circuits and their applications. Review of Maxwell’s Equations and basic wave-propagation concepts. Transmission-line theory and impedance-matching techniques. Practical planar transmission lines. Lumped and distributed elements. Microwave network analysis using impedance/admittance parameters, scattering parameters, and transmission-matrix methods. Analysis, design, numerical simulation, fabrication, and test of practical RF/microwave devices including power dividers/combiners, couplers, amplifiers, and filters. Prerequisites: ECE 370 or E E 315 or PHYS 381. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 478 or E E 478.