HARARE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Course Name RF and Microwave Devices

Course Code EEE422
Lecturer Mr S Masunda
Email address smasunda@hit.ac.zw
Phone Number 0774166052

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course will be broadly focusing on analysis, design and development of microwave
circuits and systems. The course will cover introduction to Microwaves, , Impedance
Matching, Microwave Network Analysis, Directional Coupler, Power Divider, Microwave
Filters, Microwave Attenuator, RF switches and phase shifters, Microwave Amplifiers, Low
Noise Amplifier, Microwave Mixers and Oscillators, Microwave Antennas, , Microwave
Systems and RF MEMS.

OBJECTIVES
1. To inculcate understanding of the basics required for circuit representation of RF
networks.
2. To deal with the issues in the design of microwave amplifier.
3. To instil knowledge on the properties of various microwave components.
4. To deal with the microwave generation and microwave measurement techniques
OUTCOMES
1. To inculcate understanding of the basics required for circuit representation of RF
networks.
 2. To deal with the issues in the design of microwave amplifier.
3. To instil knowledge on the properties of various microwave components.
4. To deal with the microwave generation and microwave measurement techniques

COURSE EVALUATION
Assignments 15%
Tests 5%
Labs/ Practicals 25%
ITEM DATE/WEEK WEIGHT
ASSIGNMENT 1 5%
ASSIGNMENT 2 5%
ASSIGNMENT 3 5%
TEST 1 2.5%
TEST 2 2.5%
LAB 1 5%
LAB 2 5%
LAB 3 5%
LAB 4 5%
LAB 5 5%
FINAL EXAM 60%

COURSE CONTENT THEORY

UNIT I:
Microwave frequency bands
Behaviour of passive components, Resistors at High frequency, Inductors at High frequency,
Capacitors at High Frequency, Chip components and Circuit Board Considerations
Smith chart, Impedance matching

UNIT II:

High Frequency parameters, Formulation of S parameters, Properties of S parameters,

Reciprocal and lossless Network, Transmission matrix. High frequency parameters: S
parameters and S matrix analysis for N-port microwave device
Directional Coupler
Power divider
Magic-T & Attenuators
 UNIT III:

Basic oscillator model- Feedback oscillators- Crystal oscillator

Microwave Tubes; High frequency limitations, Klystron amplifier, Reflex Klystron oscillators
TWT amplifiers, Magnetron oscillators
Bipolar junction transistor, behaviour and construction performance, characteristics and
application
Gunn diode, Gunn Oscillation modes,
IMPATT, HEMT, TRAPATT and Tunnel diode

UNIT IV:
Filter Design by the Insertion Loss Method
Characterization by Power Loss Ratio, Maximally Flat Low-Pass Filter Prototype, Equal-Ripple
Low-Pass Filter Prototype, Linear Phase Low-Pass Filter Prototypes
Filter Transformations
Impedance and Frequency Scaling, Bandpass and Band stop Transformations
Filter Implementation
Richards’ Transformation, Kuroda’s Identities, Impedance and Admittance Inverter
Stepped-Impedance Low-Pass Filters: Approximate Equivalent Circuits for Short Transmission
Line Sections

UNIT V:
Two-Port Power Gains
Definitions of Two-Port Power Gains
Stability
Stability Circles, Tests for Unconditional Stability
Single-Stage Transistor Amplifier Design
Design for Maximum Gain (Conjugate Matching)
Constant-Gain Circles and Design for Specified Gain
Low-Noise Amplifier Design 580 Low-Noise MOSFET Amplifier
Balanced Amplifiers, Distributed Amplifiers, Differential Amplifiers
Power Amplifiers
Characteristics of Power Amplifiers and Amplifier Classes
Large-Signal Characterization of Transistors
Design of Class A Power Amplifiers

UNIT VI:
Microwave techniques using miniature technology,
Antennas – Fundamentals, Dipole, Monopole, Arrays, Microstrip, Horn, Helical, Yagi-
Uda, Log-Periodic and Reflector Antennas

COURSE CONTENT - PRACTICALS

INDEX EXPERIMENT EXPECTED OUTCOME
LAB 1
LAB 2
LAB 3
LAB 4
LAB 5

TEXT BOOKS
1. Pozar, D.M., 2011. Microwave engineering. John Wiley & sons.
2. Ludwig, R., 2000. RF Circuit Design: Theory & Applications, 2/e. Pearson
Education India.
3. Liao, S.Y., 1989. Microwave devices and circuits. Pearson Education India.
4. Constantine Balanis. A, “Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design”, 3rd Edition, John
Wiley and Sons, 2012.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Gustrau, F., 2012. RF and microwave engineering: fundamentals of wireless
communications. John Wiley & Sons.
2. Gonzalez, G., 1996. Microwave transistor amplifiers analysis and design. Prentice-
Hall, Inc.
3. Prasad, K.D. and Handa, D., 2003. Antenna and wave propagation. Satya Prakashan