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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Electronics and Information Technology 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Students develop a fundamental understanding of electromagnetic waves in free space, on transmission lines, and in waveguides and are able to use S-parameters or the Smith-Chart to analyze and design passive and active radio-frequency circuits such as amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, or filters.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Applying Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic waves (k2, k3)
- Derive and apply the telegrapher equation (k1, k2, k3)
- Derive and apply the Smith-Chart for impedance matching (k1, k2, k3)
- Know the transformation paths in the Smith-Chart and apply them for matching (k1, k3)
- Construct impedance-, stability-, gain-, noise circles in the Smith-Chart (k3)
- Understand and apply the Barkhausen criterion for oscillators (k2, k3)
- Understand and design active RF components such as amplifiers, oscillators, mixers (k2, k3)
- Understand and design passive RF components with distributed structures (k2, K3)
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- Electromagnetic fields
- Maxwell equations, wave equation
- Transmission line theory, telegrapher’s equation
- Transmission lines and waveguides
- Reflection at boundary layers and transitions
- Microwave network analysis, S-parameters
- Smith-Chart
- Impedance matching
- RF amplifiers (maximum gain and noise adjustment)
- Microwave filter
- Oscillators
- Mixer
- Microwave systems
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| Criteria for evaluation |
oral examination
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| Language |
German |
| Study material |
D. M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering
Lecture slides
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Corresponding lecture |
(*)489ETELHF1V22: VL Hochfrequenztechnik 1 (3 ECTS)
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