VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Lecture Notes
INTRODUCTION TO
MICROWAVE CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

Lecturer: Dr. Tran Thi Thuy Quynh

CONTENTS

1 Overview of the course

2 Chapter 1: Introduction

3 Chapter 2: Transmission Lines

4 Chapter 3: Smith Chart

5 Chapter 4: Microwave Network Analysis

6 Chapter 5: Microwave Components and Microwave Systems

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Overview of the course

1 Duration: 45 credit hours

2 Course Objectives:
Understanding of transmission lines, circuits, and systems in microwave
band.
Analysis, design, and simulation some basic microwave circuits.
3 Textbook and Reference books:
D.M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 2005
R.E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering, 2007.
4 Mode of Assessments:
Midterm test: 40%
Final Examination: 60%

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1 Frequencies: from 0,3GHz to 300 GHz

Figure: Comparison of radio band designation standards

UHF (0,3-3GHz): Television broadcasts, microwave oven, microwave devices/communications, radio astronomy,
mobile phones, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, ZigBee, GPS and two-way radios such as land mobile, FRS and GMRS
radios, amateur radio.
SHF (3-30GHz): Radio astronomy, microwave devices/communications, wireless LAN, most modern radars,
communications satellites, cable and satellite television broadcasting, DBS, amateur radio.
EHF (30-300GHz): Radio astronomy, high-frequency microwave radio relay, microwave remote sensing, amateur
radio, directed-energy weapon, millimeter wave scanner.

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2 Majority of Applications:
Communications Systems:
Mobile phones
Satellite systems
Television broadcasting
WLAN
Radar Systems:
Military systems: Radar is used for detecting and locating air, ground,
and seagoing targets; missile guidance and fire control.
Commercial systems: air traffic control, motion detectors, vehicle
collision avoidance, and distance measurement.
Scientific applications: weather prediction, remote sensing of the
asmosphere, the oceans, and the ground; medical diagnostics and
therapy (use microwave radiometry, which is the passive sensing of
microwave energy emitted from an object).

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History of Wireless Systems

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Communications Systems

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Radar Systems

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3 Microwave Devices: amplification and generation of microwave

energy.
Microwave Tubes (1940s): vacumme tubes
Microwave Solid-state Device (1960s): diodes, transitors

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4 Microwave Components: passive elements, used in microwave systems

Cavity Resonators
Reentrant Cavities
Slow-wave structures
Microwave Hybrid Circuits: waveguide Tees, hybrid ring, directional
couplers, circulators, isolators
Dividers
Filters

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Microwave Components

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Microwave Components

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5 Microwave System

Transmitter: oscilator, mixer, power amplifier, filter,...

Receiver: filter, low-noise amplifier, mixer,...

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5 Microwave System

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6 Microwave Measurments

Vector Network Analyzer: measures S parameters.

Spectrum Analyzer: measures spectrum and energy of microwave
signals.
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