Università Roma Tre

Introduction to wireless systems: standards and frequency bands. Standards for mobile communications, wireless LAN, and bluetooth. Emerging standars in the millimeter frequency band for wireless outdoor and indoor links. Applications to wireless power transfer. Standards for radar systems.
Microwave Integrated Circuits (MIC) e Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC). Transmission line theory and matching techniques. Integrated circuits in microstrip line: technologies and design formulas for microstrip lines. Microstrip impedances. Microstrip components: two ports; there ports and Wilkinson power devider; four ports, directional couples. Printed antennas for MIC. Simulation of microstrip components with electromagnetic software.
Microwave circuits in Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) for millimeter wave applications. Design of a SIW waveguide. SIW components.
Design and simulation of microstrip components through dedicated electromagnetic software.

Microwave amplifiers: stability, gain and matching.

Systems for energy harvesting and wireless power transfer. Rectennas for the radio frequency signals.

Radar systems. Radar equation: localization of the target, and radar cross-section evaluation. Pulsed radars and frequency-stepped radar. Radar architecture and observation techniques. The Ground Penetrating Radar: antennas and receiver; application to buried object detection. Modelling of Ground Penetrating Radar problems with GprMax.

Material delivered by the teacher.

R.E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering, McGraw Hill, 1992.
D.M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, Wiley, 1998.