EE 4FJ4: Microwave Engineering

Instructor:
Dr. Wei-Ping Huang, CRL Rm. 207, ext. 27696,
wphuang@ece.eng.mcmaster.ca

Teaching Assistants:
Mr. Kevin Zhang, CRL Rm.110, ext.24521, zhangk@mcmaster.ca
Mr. Faisal Habibullah, CRL Rm.110, ext.24521,

faisalhabibullah@yahoo.com

Textbooks:
Lecture notes (available in library or from TAs/Instructor)
D.M.Pozar, Microwave Engineering (2nd Ed.), John Wiley,
1998.

In innocence, we see the beginning.

In passion, we see the end.
Lao Tse (605-531 BC)

Objectives
To provide the basic theory pertaining to
microwaves and other high-frequency
devices and subsystems
To examine some of its applications to
modern communication systems

Motivations
Practical Reasons:

Intellectual Reasons

Useful
Fundamental
Increasing important

Energy/power generation &

transmission
Telecommunications
Other emerging applications

Rigorous
Elegant
Challenging

Laws of EM waves have certain

beauty about them that can be
appreciated by those who
understand them on an aesthetic
level.

Course Description
Waveguides

Resonators

EM Field & Wave Theory

Antennas

Microwave Circuit Theory

Transmission Line Theory

Lumped Circuit Theory

Course Requirements
Labs
10%

Final Exam
In-Class Tests (4)

Tests
20%

Laboratories (4)
Homework Assignments
Lectures & Tutorials

Final
70%

Electromagnetic Spectrum
}

Photonics:
: 0.751.65 m
f: 10-100THz

Microwaves
f: 300MHz 300GHz
: 1m 1mm

As carrier frequency increases,

the same relative bandwidth means
higher absolute bandwidth!

Communication Bandwidth Available

in Optical Fiber Transmission Lines

Progress in Microelectronics

Improvement in system capacity

Higher speed, more channels

System Capacity (Gbps)

1,000,000
100,000
10,000
1,000
100
10
1
1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005
Source: RHK

Reduction in bandwidth cost

Higher speed lower prices