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Teacher
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BACCARELLI PAOLO
(syllabus)
Review of arguments of previous courses.
Transmission lines. Telegraphers’ equations and their solution. Impedance, admittance, and reflection coefficients. Voltage Standing Wave Ratio. Examples of use, and application to practical cases. Smith Chart and the relevant use for matching problems.
Cylindrical metallic waveguides. Eigenvalue problems. Propagation of modes. Rectangular waveguides.
Resonators: Resonant circuits (RLC). Cylindrical resonators: resonant frequencies and modal profiles. Effect of losses. Quality factor. Passive junctions.
Use of a microwave didactic bench. Description of components. Experimental use of the bench. Measurements relevant to frequency, wavelength, VSWR, antenna measurements.
Brief introduction to computational electromagnetism and use of simulation software.
(reference books)
- F. Frezza, A Primer on Electromagnetic Fields, Springer, 2015.
- Pozar, David M. Microwave Engineering, 4th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, 2012.
- Notes of the Course.
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