Course Objectives

The main goals of this course are outlined broadly below:

1. Appreciate limits of lumped-element circuit designs and analysis
2. Demonstrate proficiency in distributed circuit design by analytical, graphical, and computer-aided methods
   • Impedance matching concepts, design of matching networks
   • Single-stub tuner, quarter-wave transformer, double-stub tuner
3. Demonstrate proficiency in analyzing non-linear properties of microwave circuits
   • Gain compression
   • Intermodulation effects
4. Demonstrate proficiency in analyzing noise in electrical systems
   • Effective noise temperature
   • Noise factor, noise figure
5. Successfully design, analyze, fabricate, and test working microstrip-based circuit
   • Properties to be measured and/or analyzed
     • Frequency response
     • Input and output return loss/match
     • Stability (for amplifiers)
     • Gain compression, intermodulation
     • Noise figure
6. System analysis using measured circuit performance data