microstrip lines; Slot line and Coupled lines; Design of power dividers and combiners,
directional couplers, hybrid couplers, filters. Microstrip lines on ferrite and garnet
substrates; Isolators and circulators; Lumped elements in MICs. Technology of MICs:
Monolithic and hybrid substrates; thin and thick film technologies, computer aided design.
Text/Reference books:
1. Davis W. Alan, Van, Microwave Semiconductor Circuit Design, Nostrand,
Reinhold, 1984.
2. Gonzalez G., Microwave Transistor Amplifier: Analysis and Design, Prentice Hall 1984.
3. Samuel Y. Liao, Microwave Circuit Analysis and Amplifier Design, Prentice Hall 1987.
4. Ralph S. Carson, High Frequency Amplifier, Wiley Interscience, 1982.
AV477
ANTENNA ENGINEERING
(3‐ 0 ‐ 0) 3 credits
Antenna Fundamentals ‐Common Types of Antennas ‐Fundamentals and Definitions ‐ Directivity
‐Antenna Gain and Efficiency ‐Antennas in Communications Links ‐Wire Antennas‐ Radiation
Integrals and Auxiliary Potential Functions ‐ Solutions of the Inhomogeneous Vector Potential
Wave Equation ‐ Linear Wire Antennas – The Ideal Dipole ‐ Electrically Short or Small Dipoles ‐
The Half‐Wave Dipole ‐ The Dipole of Arbitrary Length ‐ Antennas on or Near PEC Ground Planes
‐ Antenna Arrays and Impedance ‐ Antenna Arrays ‐ Graphical Method for Developing the
Radiation Pattern‐ Pattern Multiplication Theorem with Examples ‐ Half‐Power Beam Width
(HPBW) ‐Directivity ‐ Even Element Linear Array with Uniform Spacing and Nonuniform
Excitation ‐ Directivity for Binomial Arrays ‐Planar Arrays ‐Mutual Impedance and Driving Point
Impedance of Antenna Arrays ‐Yagi‐Uda Antennas
Text/Reference Books:
1. Constantine A. Balanis, Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design, Second edition, John
Willey and Son, Inc.
2. Warren L. Stutzman, Gary A. Thiele, Antenna Theory and Design, 2nd Edition, John
Willey and Son, Inc.
AV478
SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
(3‐ 0 ‐ 0) 3 credits
Basic Principles‐ General features, frequency allocation for satellite services, properties of
satellite communication systems. Satellite Orbits‐ Kepler's laws, orbital dynamics, orbital
characteristics, satellite spacing and orbital capacity, angle of elevation, eclipses, launching and
positioning, satellite drift and station keeping. Satellite Construction ‐ attitude and orbit control
system; telemetry, tracking and command; power systems, communication subsystems,
antenna subsystem, equipment reliability and space qualification. Satellite Links‐, general link
design equation, system noise temperature, uplink design, downlink design, complete link
design, effects of rain. Earth Station ‐ earth station subsystem, different types of earth stations.
The Space Segment Access and Utilization‐space segment access methods, TDMA, FDMA,
CDMA, SDMA, assignment methods.
Text Book:
1. Dennis Roddy, Satellite Communications, McGraw‐Hill Publication Third edition 2001
Reference Books:
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