Description: Covers microwave transmission line models and their applications; electromagnetic waves in layered media; mode structures in metallic and dielectric waveguides; resonators and cavities; and Green's functions.
Lectures: 1 - Transmission lines, S-parameters, and microstrip wave guides 2 - Electric Materials 1: Physics and Mathematical Modeling 3 - Electric Materials 2: Mathematical Modeling and Circuit Analysis 4 - Time Domain analysis of Transmission Lines with Step Functions (digital transmissions case) 5 - Time Domain analysis with lossy materials 6 - Coupled Transmission Lines (crosstalk) 7 - Discontinuities in Transmission Lines (flawed/bent circuit traces and interconnect) 8 - Higher-Order Transmission Modes 9 - Single-Conductor wave guides: cylindrical and rectangular wave guides (TBD: may additionally cover nonlinear responses such as amplifier cases) 10 - Wireless Transmission: antennae, multipath, and contemporary transmission problems
I am preparing a set of MatLab examples (which will be compatible with GNU Octave, an open source alternative which is attractive for home use especially). These are tentatively: 1 - Frequency Domain Models for distributed systems (and cascading these models via ABCD parameters) 2 - Phase Unwrap problem for Transmission Lines 3 - Virtual instrumentation and working with data sets from real instrumentation 4 - Software Time Domain Reflection (TDR) + Eye Diagrams 5 - Modeling loss and dispersion 6 - Navagating non-ideal data sets 7 - Complex interconnect 8 - Modes as ports 9 - Case Study: a 100 Watt NWA from other instruments lying around the lab