Department of Electronics Engineering, ISM Dhanbad

RF & Microwave Engineering

COURSE STRUCTURE AND DETAILED SYLLABUS OF

2-YEAR M. TECH. PROGRAMME IN
RF & MICROWAVE ENGINEERING
Semester I
Sl.
No.
1

Course No.

Name of Subjects

ECC 51103

2
3
4

ECC 51104
ECC 51105
AMC 51101

Advanced Engineering
3
Electromagnetics
Microwave Measurement
3
Microwave Devices and Systems
3
Advanced
Numerical
Methods
& 3
Applied Statistics
Elective-I*
3
Microwave Measurement Lab-1
0
Total
16

5
6

ECC 51203

Credit
Hrs.
6

0
0
1

0
0
0

6
6
7

0
0
0

0
3
3

6
3
34

Elective I
Sl.
No.
1
2
3
4

Course No.

Name of Subjects

ECE
ECE
ECE
ECE

3
3
3
3

0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0

5
6
7

ECE 51117
ECE 51118
ECE 51119

Microwave Remote Sensing

Advanced Optoelectronic Devices
Advanced Signal Processing
Advanced
Materials
for
High
Frequency Applications
Microwave Communication Systems
RF & Microwave MEMS
Advanced Optical Communication

Credit
Hrs.
6
6
6
6

3
3
3

0
0
0

0
0
0

6
6
6

Credit
Hrs.
6

3
3
3
3
0
0
0
15

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0
3
3
0
6

6
6
6
6
3
3
4
40

51103
51106
51110
51116

Semester II
Sl.
No.
1

Course No.

2
3
4
5
6
7
8

ECC 52105
ECC 52106

ECC 52104

ECC 52203
ECC 52204
ECC 52501

Name of Subjects
Numerical Techniques in
Electromagnetics
Advanced Antenna Theory
Microwave Circuits and Network
Elective-II*
Elective-III*
RF & CAD Project Lab
Microwave Measurement Lab-2
Comprehensive Viva-voce
Total

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2
3
4
5
6

Course No.

Elective-II & Elective-III

Name of Subjects

ECE
ECE
ECE
ECE
ECE
ECE

52105
52106
52116
52117
52118
52119

Metamaterial Science & Applications

Microwave Photonics
Electromagnetic Interference & compatibility
Advanced Communication Theory
Radar Engineering
Mobile Communication

3
3
3
3
3
3

0
0
0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0
0
0

Credit
Hrs.
6
6
6
6
6
6

7
8
9
10

ECE
ECE
ECE
ECE

52120
52121
52122
52123

Microwave Imaging
Smart Antennas
RFID
MIC and MMIC

3
3
3
3

0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0

6
6
6
6

Semester III
Sl.
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Course No.
ECC
ECC
ECC
ECC
ECC
ECC

53901
53401
53501
53801
53402
53001

Name of Course

Credit
hrs.
Industrial Training/Minor Project/ Term Paper
04
Seminar and Viva-voce on Industrial Training.
02
Comprehensive Viva-voce
04
Dissertation (Interim)
15
Seminar and Viva-voce on Dissertation
10
Teaching
Assignment
Evaluation/
Laboratory 05
Development work etc.
Total
40

Semester IV
Sl.
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.

Course No.

Name

ECC
ECC
ECC
ECC

Dissertation
Seminar on dissertation
Viva-vice on dissertation
Evaluation of teaching assignment / Lab work etc.
Total

54801
54401
54501
54001

Credit
hrs.
20
05
10
05
40

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SEMESTER I
ECC 51103: ADVANCED ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICS
(3-0-0)
Maxwells Equations, circuit field relations, time harmonic electromagnetic fields,
wave equation and solution, reflection and transmission of multiple interfaces,
auxiliary vector potential, construction of solution, radiation and scattering
equations, electromagnetic theorems and principles, Greens Function; Greens
function with integral transform techniques; Dyadic functions; Wave propagation
and polarization; reflection and transmission across an interface; waveguides, cavity
resonators, scattering.
ECC 51104: MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT
(3-0-0)
Review of measurement and instrumentation basics, Vector network analyzer (VNA),
Calibration techniques, passive and active circuit characterization using network
analyser, Spectrum analyzers, characteristic of spectrum analyzer, Measurement of
Q factor (Loaded, unloaded and External Q factor), Impedance (Double minima
method, Smith Chart, Byrne Bridge, directional coupler method, Probe method),
Dielectric constant measurement (cavity perturbation method, infinite sample
method and resonance method), Permeability, frequency and phase measurement,
power measurement and antenna measurement.

ECC 51105: MICROWAVE DEVICE & SYSTEMS

(3-0-0)
Active Devices: Tunnel diode, TRAPATT Diode, BARITT Diode, Schottky Barrier
Diode, PIN Diode, Varactor Diode, Parametric Amplifier. BJT, HBT, HEMT.
Microwave Linear Beam Tubes: High frequency limitations of conventional tubes,
klystrons two cavity klystron, multi-cavity klystron, Reflex klystron, Helix TWT
construction, operation and applications. Coupled cavity TWT.
Microwave Crossed Field Tubes: Magnetons, forward wave crossed field amplifier
(FWCFA), Backward wave crossed field amplifier (FWCFA), Gyrotrons.

AMC 51101
ADVANCED NUMERICAL METHODS & APPLIED STATISTICS
(3-1-0)
Part I: Solution of tri-diagonal system, Evaluation of double and triple integrals by
numerical methods and its application, solution of non-linear simultaneous
equations, numerical solutions of integral equations, advanced method of
interpolation, numerical solution of simultaneous first order ordinary differential
equations and higher order O.D.E. Initial and boundary value problems; Numerical
solution of partial differential equations; Laplace and Poisson equation; heat
conductive and wave equations.
Part II: Applied Statistics Review of binomial, negative binomial, Poisson, normal
and log normal distribution, interval estimates, test of significance for means,
variance, test for correlation and regression coefficient, Non-parametric tests: WaldWolfowitz run tests, tests of randomness, median tests, sign tests, Mann-Whitney
Wilcoxon U-tests. One way and two-way analysis of variance. Time series analysis,
reliability and life testing experiments in engineering problem, Completely

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Randomized Design (CRD), Randomized block Design (RBD), Latin Square Design
(LSD).

ECC 51203 MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT LAB-1

(0-0-3)
1. Introduction and Overview of Laboratory Course
2. Impedance and VSWR measurement of Waveguide Discontinuities-Inductive and
Capacitive diaphragms/ antennas.
3. Dielectric constant measurement using two point method, infinite sample method
and cavity perturbation method.
4. To study the dispersion diagram of waveguide.
5. Radiation Pattern Measurement of Horn antennas.
6. Gain Measurement of Horn antennas.
7. Measurements of reflex Klystron/ Gunn diode Characteristics.
8. Characterization of phase-shifter
9. Study of coupling (Q-factor) properties of microwave resonator.

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ELECTIVE I
ECE 51103: MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
(3-0-0)
Passive Survey System: Introduction, History, plane waves, antenna systems,
Resolution Concepts, Radiometry, Passive microwave sensing components,
Emission laws, Roughness and Dielectric Constant, Radiometers, Components,
Brightness temperature, Antenna temperature, Power, temperature correspondence,
passive microwave interaction with atmospheric constituents, Emission
characteristics of various earth features, Passive missions, Data products and
Applications Active Survey System: Basics, RADAR operation and measurements,
RADAR equation, RAR, frequency bands, SLAR Imaging Geometry, Geometric
Distortions, SAR, Concepts, Doppler principle & Processing System Parameters and
fading concepts, Target Parameters. Interaction with Earth surface and vegetation,
Physical Scattering Models, Surface and Volume Backscattering. Platforms, Sensors
and Data Processing: Airborne, Space borne and Indian missions, Data products
and selection procedure, SAR Image Processing software, Measurement and
discrimination, Backscatter Extraction, Pre-processing and speckle filtering, Image
Interpretation, SAR Image Fusion. Applications: Applications in Agriculture,
Forestry, Geology, Hydrology, cryospace studies, landuse mapping and ocean
related studies, military and surveillance applications, search and rescue
operations, ground and air target detection and tracking - case studies. Imaging
and Non Imaging Metrics: SAR interferometry, Basics, differential SAR
interferometry, SAR polarimetry, Polarisation Types, Information Extraction,
Altimetry, Principle, Location systems, Calibration- applications.

ECE 51106: ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES

(3-0-0)
Elements light and solid state physics: Wave nature of light, Polarization,
Interference, Diffraction, Light Source, review of Quantum Mechanical concept,
Review of Solid State Physics, Review of Semiconductor Physics and Semiconductor
Junction Devices. Display devices and LASER: Introduction, Photo Luminescence,
Cathode Luminescence, Electro Luminescence, Injection Luminescence, LED,
Plasma Display, Liquid Crystal Displays, Numeric Displays, Laser Emission,
Absorption, Radiation, Population Inversion, Optical Feedback, Threshold condition,
Laser Modes, Classes of Lasers, Mode Locking, laser applications. Optical detection
devices: Photo detector, Thermal detector, Photo Devices, Photo Conductors,
junction photo diodes, phototransistor, Detector Performance; bandwidth,
responsivity. Optoelectronic Modulator: Introduction on modulator, Electro-optic
modulators, Magneto Optic Devices, Acousto-optic devices, Optical, Switching and
Logic Devices. Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits (OEIC): hybrid and Monolithic
Integration, Application of Opto Electronic Integrated Circuits, Integrated
transmitters and Receivers, Guided wave devices.

ECE 51110: ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING

(3-0-0)

Digital processing of analog signals-analysis of quantization errors, over sampling

and noise shaping in A/D and D/A conversion, structures for Discrete-time
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systems- effects of coefficients quantization and round-off noise, digital filtersoptimal approximation of FIR filters, Discrete Fourier Transform and its efficient
computation, Goertzel and Chirp-z transform for computation of DFT, effect of finite
register length in DFT computation, Fourier analysis of non-stationary signals,
Power spectral estimation, Discrete Hilbert transform, Multirate Signal Processing,
introduction to Adaptive signal processing, application of DSP in communication,
digital signal processors- architecture and applications.

ECE 51116: ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS (3-0-0)

Garnets, Spinels and Absorbers materials, Plastics and Plastic Ceramic Composite
Materials, Low and high Dielectric Constant Ceramic Dielectrics, Metals at
Microwave Frequencies, Ferrite Devices, Resonators and Filters Based on
Dielectrics, Antennas and Radomes, Tunable Devices.

ECE 51117: MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

(3-0-0)
LOS and tropospheric scattered communication system; the satellite link analysis
and design; communication transponder system; the transmission of analog and
digital signals through satellite and various modulation techniques employed; the
multiple access techniques like FDMA, TDMA, SSMA,DAMA, etc; future trends in
microwave communications.
ECE 51118: RF & MICROWAVE MEMS
(3-0-0)
Introduction: Introduction to RF MEMS for microwave applications, space and
defence applications, MEMS technology and fabrication, mechanical modelling of
MEMS devices, MEMS materials and fabrication techniques. Micro fabrication
Techniques: Materials properties, Bulk and surface micromachining, Wet and dry
etching, Thin-film deposition (LPCVD, Sputtering, Evaporation). Actuation
Mechanisms in MEMS: Piezoelectric, Electrostatic, Thermal, And Magnetic. MEMS
design process: (a) Basic review of constituent equations, static and dynamics. (b)
Fundamental equations form simple beams (c) FEM analysis (d) Basics of lumped
electrical parameters and simple LCR circuits, MEMS Switches: Basics of MEMS
switches; Capacitive shunt and series switches: Physical description, circuit model
and electromagnetic modelling; Techniques of MEMS switch fabrication and
packaging; Design of MEMS switches. RF Filters and Phase Shifters: Modelling of
mechanical filters, micro machined filters, surface acoustic wave filters, micro
machined filters for millimetre wave frequencies; Various types of MEMS phase
shifters; Ferroelectric phase shifters. Integration and Packaging: Role of MEMS
packages, types of MEMS packages, module packaging, packaging materials and
reliability issues.

ECE 51119: ADVANCED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION

(3-0-0)
Ray theory and Mode theory. Fiber- SMF, MMF, Attenuation and dispersion in
fibers. Special fibers: DSF,DCF,PMD. Photonic components and devices: Amplifier
Filters, Isolator, Coupler-Coupled modes theory. Fiber nonlinearities: Kerr effects,
SPM, XPM, FWM, optical signal processing Optical Transmitter: Source - LD, LED,

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Modulator- EOM, AOM, Optical Transmitter module Optical Receivers:

Photodetectors - p-n photodiode, p-i-n photodiode, APDs, Receiver Module WDM
Systems: WDM Components, Multiplexers and Demultiplexers, MZI, Optical
switches, Add-Drop Multiplexers and Filters, Star Couplers, Wavelength Routers.

SEMESTER II
ECC 52104: NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES IN ELECTROMAGNETICS

(3-0-0)

Fundamental concepts in Electromagnetics: Review of EM Theory, Classification of

EM Problems and Some Important Theorem. Finite Difference Method: Finite
Difference Schemes, Differencing of Parabolic, Hyperbolic and Elliptic PDEs,
Accuracy and Stability in PD, Application in Guided Structure, Wave Scattering
(FDTD), Absorbing Boundary Conditions, Finite Differencing for Non Rectangular
System. Mode Matching Techniques for waveguide structure and solution
construction, method of separation variable methods. Variational Method:
Construction of Functional from PDEs, Rayleigh Ritz Method, Weighted Residual
Method, Eigen Value Problems and Practical Applications. Application to Study
Open Ended Waveguide Problem. Moment Method, Finite Element Method: Solution
to Poisson, Laplace and Wave Equation, Mesh generation in Rectangular and
Arbitrary Domain, Transmission Line Matrix method, Spectral Domain Methods,
Method of Line: Solution to Laplace Equation, Wave Equation and Time Domain
Solution.
ECC 52105: ADVANCED ANTENNA THEORY
(3-0-0)
Introduction to Antenna: Antenna Types, Radiation mechanism, Fundamental
parameters of Antennas. Radiation Integrals and Auxiliary Potential Functions:
Vector Potential for Electric and magnetic Current Sources, Electric and Magnetic
fields for Electric and Magnetic Current Sources, Solution of Inhomogeneous vector
Potential Wave Equation, Far Field radiation, Duality Theorem, Reciprocity and
Reaction Theorem. Antenna Arrays: Two Element array, N element Linear Array,
Planar Array. Antenna Synthesis and Continuous Sources, integral Equations,
moment Method and Self and Mutual Impedances: Integral equation method, Finite
diameter Wires, Moment method Solution, Self-Impedance, Mutual impedance
between Linear Elements, Mutual Coupling in Arrays, Analysis of microstrip patch,
slot antenna, analysis of aperture antenna and antenna array, Antenna RCS, and
RCS reduction.
ECC 52106: MICROWAVE CIRCUITS AND NETWORK
(3-0-0)
Planar Transmission Line:
Introduction to two wire transmission lines and
waveguides. Planar transmission lines.
Waveguide circuits: Microwave Network representations, Microwave power dividers,
T- junctions and couplers, Microwave Non-reciprocal networks, Quarter and half
wave plates.

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Microwave Filters: Periodic lines, Image parameter method and insertion loss
method of filter design, Richards transformation and Kuroda identities, Inverters.
Advance filter and filter multiplexer design.
Active Circuits: Detectors and Mixers (single ended, Balanced, Image rejection,
FET), Stability and Gain of Amplifier, Single Stage and Broadband Amplifier,
Oscillators.

ECC 52203: RF & CAD PROJECT LAB

Using Software Simulation (HFSS/IE3D/CST or Equivalent):
1. Rectangular Microstrip Antenna & Circular Microstrip antenna.
2. Microstrip and wire Monopole Antenna
3. Microstrip Wideband Antennas
4. Horn antennas
5. Multi-band Antennas
6. Couplers
7. Microstrip and Waveguide Filters
8. Microstrip and Waveguide Tee Component
9. Design of Circulators
10. Dielectric Resonator Antennas
11. RCS Simulations of standard objects.

(0-0-3)

ECC 52204: MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT LAB-2

(0-0-3)
1. Introduction and Overview of Laboratory Course
2. Measurement of Antenna Polarization
3. Frequency Response of Baluns and microwave circuits.
4. Characterization of microwave amplifier using spectrum analyzer and power
meter.
5. Familiarization of basic operation of VNA
6. Studies of Complex network parameter of microwave passive circuit using VNA
7. Measurement of Noise Figure of different devices using VNA
8. Studies of Non-ideal behavior of passive components at high frequencies using
LCR meter
9. Characterization of non-reciprocal devices using VNA
10. Studies on VCO, Mixer and super heterodyne receiver using spectrum analyzer.
11. Phase noise measurement of oscillators.
12. RCS measurement of standard objects.

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ELECTIVE II and III

ECE 52105: METAMATERIAL SCIENCE & APPLICATION:
(3-0-0)
Fundamentals of Metamaterials, classification of metamaterials, Metamaterial
transmission lines: basic concepts, applications in microwave components, Two
dimensional metamaterials, Fundamental Aspects of Leaky-Wave Structures,
material parameters, resonant response, Zeroth Order Resonating Antenna, TwoDimensional metamaterial Structures, various applications of metamaterial.

ECE 52106: MICROWAVE PHOTONICS

(3-0-0)
Introduction to Microwave Photonics: An introductory overview, Advantages,
overview of photonic devices for microwave photonic system. Microwave photonic
components: High speed Modulator, Electro-optic modulator, Biasing and transfer
characteristic of Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), Electro-absorption modulators,
Fiber Bragg Grating filter, Semiconductor optical amplifier. Microwave photonic
systems: Radio over fiber, Photonic microwave signal generation and processing,
Optoelectronic microwave oscillator, Microwave photonic mixer, Microwave photonic
filter, Photonic phased array antenna, Terahertz signal generation and detection.
Microwave photonics in instrumentation and measurement: Photonic approach of
microwave frequency measurement, Photonic A/D converter, Microwave photonic
sensor.

ECE 52116: ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE & COMPATIBILITY

(3-0-0)

Introduction of EMI & EMC, RF device classification, CISPR & FCC limits, non-ideal
behavior of passive components, Design of clock for digital device, radiated
emission, radiated susceptibility, conducted emission, conducted susceptibility,
power line filters, measurement of radiated emission and conducted emission,
electrostatic discharge, Mitigation techniques, shielding, crosstalk, multi-conductor
transmission line, principle of inductive and capacitive coupling, shielding wires,
twisted pairs and system design for EMC.

ECE 52117: ADVANCED COMMUNICATION THEORY

(3-0-0)
Signal Space Theory; Statistical Theory of Communication; Bandwidth/Power
efficient digital modulation techniques; Carrier synchronization; Spread spectrum
techniques; Multicarrier modulation; Channel Coding: Block and Convolutional
codes, maximum likelihood decoding, coding gain, coded modulation, Interleaving,
Viterbi Algorithm, Introduction to Turbo codes and LDPC codes; Advanced
Communication Systems: MIMO, Cognitive Radio and Green communications.

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ECE 52118: RADAR ENGINEERING

(3-0-0)
Radar fundamentals, Derivation of range equation, the search radar equation,
Jamming and radar range with jamming, Radar clutter and radar range with
clutter, Radar range with combined interferences sources. Noise and false alarms,
Detection of one sample of signal with noise, Integration of pulse trains, Detection of
fluctuating targets, CFAR, Optimum and matched filter Theory, Loss factors in
detection. Definition of radar cross section, Radar cross section of simple and
complex objects, spatial distribution of cross section, Bistatic cross section, CW and
FM Radar: Doppler Effect, CW and FMCW Radar, Airborne Doppler Navigation,
Multi frequency CW Radar. Delay lines and line cancellors, Subclutter Visibility.
MTI using range gates and filters, Pulse Doppler radar, Non-coherent MTI radar,
Application of Digital signal processing to radar system. Different types of tracking
techniques, tracking in range, tracking in Doppler, Search Acquisition radar,
Comparison of Trackers. Height finding radars, Air traffic control Radars and data
handling, Atmospheric effects of radar, Electromagnetic compatibility aspects,
Airborne Radars, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Secondary surveillance Radars, LTIR.

ECE 52119: MOBILE COMMUNICATION

(3-0-0)
Introduction to wireless systems and standards, frequency reuse and the cellular
system concepts; Traffic Engineering; Multiple Access protocols: Time, Frequency
and Code Division Multiple Access; Mobile Radio Propagation Modeling:
propagation losses and shadowing (link budget); LOS, non-LOS, Outdoor
propagation models; Small scale fading and Multipath. Modulations techniques
and their performance on fading channels and channels with the Inter-symbol
Interference. Diversity and combining techniques. Terrestrial Mobile (GSM, CDMA
Digital Standard (IS-95,); 3G systems: WCDMA, CDMA 2000), Personal
Communication Systems (PCS)

ECE 52120: MICROWAVE IMAGING

(3-0-0)
A review of the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem & formulation, effective
reconstruction techniques based on diffracted waves, including time- and
frequency-domain methods as well as deterministic and stochastic space-domain
procedures, Insight on near field probes, microwave axial tomographs, and
microwave cameras and scanners, practical applications with detailed descriptions
and discussions of materials evaluation, crack detection, inspection of civil and
industrial structures, subsurface detection, and medical applications, New emerging
techniques and future trends, SAR imaging and their application stealth technology.

ECE 52121: SMART ANTENNAS

(3-0-0)
Introduction to Smart Antennas, Need for Smart Antennas, Smart Antenna
Configurations, Switched-Beam Antennas, Adaptive Antenna Approach, Space
Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Architecture of a Smart Antenna System,
Receiver, Transmitter, Benefits and Drawbacks, Mutual Coupling Effects, DOA
Estimation Fundamentals, Introduction to Array Response Vector, Received Signal
Model, The Subspace Based Data Model, Signal Auto-covariance Matrices,

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Conventional DOA Estimation Methods: Conventional Beam forming Method,

Capons Minimum Variance Method, Subspace Approach to DOA Estimation, The
MUSIC Algorithm, The ESPRIT, Algorithm, Uniqueness of DOA Estimates, Beam
forming Fundamentals, The Classical Beam former-Statistically Optimum Beam
forming Weight Vectors, The Maximum SNR Beam former, The Multiple Side lobe
Canceller and the Maximum, SINR Beam former- Minimum Mean Square Error
(MMSE), Direct Matrix Inversion, (DMI), Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance
(LCMV), Adaptive Algorithms for Beam forming, The Least Mean Square (LMS)
Algorithm, The Recursive Least Squares (RLS) Algorithm, SpaceTime Processing:
Introduction, Discrete SpaceTime Channel and Signal Models, SpaceTime, Beam
forming, Inter symbol and Co-Channel Suppression, ISI Suppression, CCI,
Suppression, Data Rates in MIMO Systems, Single-User Data Rate Limits, Multiple
Users Data Rate Limits, Data Rate Limits Within a Cellular System, MIMO in
Wireless Local Area Networks, Mobile Stations Smart Antennas, Combining
Techniques, Selection (Switched) Diversity, Maximal Ratio Combining, Adaptive
Beam forming or Optimum Combining, RAKE Receiver Size, Mutual Coupling
Effects, Dual-Antenna Performance Improvements, Downlink Capacity Gains.

ECE 52122: RFID

(3-0-0)
Electro-magnetic resonance and magnetic curve based methods, Near field load
modulated passive RFID methods, Semi-passive RFID methods, Full active
transponders, Spectrum use and performance limitations, Data formats, encoding
methods and standards, Data integrity and security for RFID, Multi-tag arbitration
and addressing algorithms, Complex tag architectures for extra functions, Business
models and systems for RFID use, and competing technologies, Social
considerations arising from the use of RFID. RFID Standards, Laws, Regulations,
Policies, and Guidelines: ISO/IEC Item, Management, Contactless Smart Cards,
Animal Identification, FCC Rules for ISM Band, Identity, Standards, and Guidelines
for Securing RFID Systems.

ECE 52123: MIC AND MMIC

(3-0-0)
Conductor and dielectric losses in planar transmission lines, coupled lines, multiconductor lines, discontinuities, Basic Passive Components - Lumped elements in
MIC & MMIC and filters in MMIC and Phase Shifters-PIN diode- Equivalent circuit
and Characteristics, Basic series and shunt switches in microstrip. Realization in
microstrip and suspended stripline Basics of MIC, MMIC and MEMS technologies.
Fabrication process. Relative advantages. Realization of planar transmission lines
and filters in MEMS. Active device technologies and design approaches, Fabrication
and modeling: Bipolar junction transistor, Hetero-junction bipolar transistor, High
electron mobility transistor, MESFET, CMOS, BiCMOS.

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