This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module provides students with a general knowledge of the principles of microwave communication technologies and how signals are transmitted via transmission lines. The module builds on this knowledge by introducing you to some of the microwave circuits used in modern communication systems.
Total contact hours: 39
Private study hours: 111
Total study hours: 150
Examination - 60%, Coursework - 40%
• Pozar D., Microwave Engineering 4th Edition (2012), Wiley.
• Ludwig, R. and Bretchko, P., RF Circuit Design, 2nd Edition (2008), Prentice Hall.
• Collier R., Transmission Lines, (2014), Cambridge.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the structures that guide pulsed, RF and microwave signals.
2. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of EM wave behaviour in free space and at dielectric boundaries.
3. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of EM guiding structures, both metallic and dielectric.
4. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the basic design, matching and stability of RF amplifiers and of the circuits involved in the process of high frequency
signal transmission.
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