ECE 435:  Electromagnetic Waves and Applications


Instructor/Laboratory Supervisor:	
        Leo C. Kempel
        Email: kempel@egr.msu.edu
        Web:   http://www.egr.msu.edu/~kempel/
        Phone:  353-9944	
	
Class E-mail:
To contact the ECE435 class via e-mail instructor

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Office Hours:
        MWF, 12:30-1:30, 2234EB and by appointment.

Text:	
        1) C.A. Balanis, "Antenna Theory,", 2nd Ed., Wiley, 1997.
        2) ECE 435 Coursepack (available at the Anthony Hall Copy Center).

References:
        1) Ramo, Whinnery, and Van Duzer, "Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics,"
           3rd Ed., Wiley, 1994.
        2) J.D. Kraus, "Antennas," 2nd. Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1988.
        3) W.L. Stutzman and G.A. Thiele, "Antenna Theory and Design," 2nd. Ed., Wiley, 1998.
        4) D.M. Pozar, "Microwave Engineering," 2nd. Ed., Wiley, 1998.

Time & Place: 

        Lecture
        Fall Semester 2001
        MWF 1:50-2:40
        1202 Engineering Building

        Laboratory
        Tu 11:30-2:20 (Section 1)
        Th 11:30-2:20 (Section 2)
        Tu 3:00-5:50  (Section 3)

        2234 Engineering Building


Course Outline:

        1) Microwave Networks and Circuits:  S-parameters and circuit elements (Pozar Chpt. 4)
        2) Antenna concepts:  Radiated power, impedance, gain, antenna pattern (Balanis Chpt. 2)
        3) EM field equations, wave equations, etc. (Balanis Chpt. 3)
        5) Radiation by wire and loop antennas (Balanis Chpts. 4 and 5)
        6) Microstrip antennas (Balanis Chpt. 14)
        7) Antenna arrays (Balanis Chpts. 6 and 7)
        8) Misc. antenna overview (Balanis Chpts. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
        9) Guided waves:  Transmission lines, waveguides, microstrip, fiber optics (notes)
       10) Confined waves:  Cavities (notes)


Course Grading:
   Home work                  10%
   Midterm Project            10%
   Exam                       30%
   Semester Design Project    25%
   Laboratory                 25%

   The exam is tenetively scheduled for Nov. 20, 2002.
   Final Exam:  12:45-2:45 on December 10, 2002.

Laboratory Experiments:

Instructions:  1) All students should check each experiment's listing after 12:00 Noon on the Monday prior to the  experiment.
               2) All students MUST bring a printed copy of each experiment to the appropriate laboratory session.
               3) All lab policies, schedules, and experiments are provided below as downloadable PDF files.

Laboratory Manual Cover Page
Laboratory Policies
Laboratory Schedule
Laboratory Safety

Experiment 1:  S-Parameter Measurement Using the Vector Voltmeter
           S-Parameters Measurement Technique
Experiment 2:  S-Parameters of Cascaded 2-Port Networks
Experiment 3:  Introduction to CAD of Microwave Circuits
     Puff Web-page at Cal Tech
     Sonnet Lite Web Page
     Revised drawing of the 6 GHz filter.
Experiment 4:  Design of Microwave Circuits
     Design charts for branchline couplers and side coupled filters.
Experiment 5:  Introduction to the Microwave Network Analyzer
Experiment 6:  Antenna Pattern Measurements
Experiment 7:  Measurement of the Properties of a Branch Line Coupler
Experiment 8:  Antenna Impedance Measurements
Experiment 9:  NEC Modeling   
     Revised Lab 8 Instructions
     NEC-2 User Manual Page
     NEC2 for PCs Nec-2 executable for PCs (<= 256 segments).
     NEC2 for PCs Nec-2 executable for PCs (<= 1950 segments).
     NOTE: You must have NEC2D.EXE in the same directory as nec2d1k9.exe to run nec2d1k9.exe!!!
     NEC2 for SUNs Nec-2 executable for SUNs (<= 1950 segments).
Experiment 10:  Microwave Waveguide and Component Measurements
Experiment 11:  Microwave Cavity Measurements

Additional Information:  
ri2mp.f Fortran program to convert from S-paramter real/imaginary to magnitude/phase format.
     Compile instructions for SUN:  f77 -o ri2mp ri2mp.f
low11.txt Example original S-parameter data in real/imaginary format.
low11.mp Converted S-parameter data in real/imaginary format.
nplot.f Fortran program to plot line plots and create nice PostScript output file (Written by Drs. Norm Vandenberg and Leland Pierce while at Univ. of Michigan).
     Compile instructions for SUN:  f77 -o nplot nplot.f
     nplot_tutorial.txt Tutorial for nplot.
nplot SUN-compiled program to plot line plots.
mag.fmt Example format file to plot magnitude using NPLOT.
phase.fmt Example format file to plot phase using NPLOT.
mag.ps Example PostScript magnitude plot using NPLOT.
     Printing instructions:  See DECS or try lpr -P{printer name} mag.ps, example {printer name} = eb2200ps1 for printer in EB2200.
     Alternative:  If you are on a SUN and GhostView is used to view the file, you can print from GhostView).
phase.fmt Example PostScript phase plot using NPLOT.
     Printing instructions:  See DECS or try lpr -P{printer name} phase.ps

Homework:  
Homework #1 due 09/11/02.
Homework #2 due 09/23/02.
Homework #3 due 09/04/02.
Homework #4 due 10/23/02.
Homework #5 due 11/18/02.

Homework Solutions: 
Homework 2-4 solutions.
 Keep checking here for more stuff!!!

Midterm Design Project:  
Midterm Project:  Design of a Dual-band GPS Antenna Due 10/16/02.

Final Design Project:  
Final Project:  Design of a Wide Bandwidth Antenna Due 12/10/02.



 

     
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