Name : Semester:7th sem

Degree: Bachelor of engineering Section :

Branch: Electronics & communication Subject code : EC8701
Year : 4th year Subject name: ANTENNAS
Antenna &MICROWAVE
AND Microwave Engineering
ENGINEERING

College name: Anjalai Ammal Mahalingham Engineering College

OBJECTIVES:
 To enable the student to understand the basic principles in antenna and
microwave system design
 To enhance the student knowledge in the area of various antenna designs.
 To enhance the student knowledge in the area of microwave components
and antenna for practical applications.
Unit 1: INTRODUCTION TO MICROWAVE SYSTEMS AND ANTENNAS
1 Microwave frequency bands
2 Physical concept of radiation
3 Near- and far-field regions
4 Fields and Power Radiated by an Antenna
5 Antenna Pattern Characteristics
6 Antenna Gain and Efficiency
7 Aperture Efficiency and Effective Area
8 Antenna Noise Temperature and G/T
9 Impedance matching
10 Friis transmission equation
11 Link budget and link margin
12 Noise Characterization of a microwave receiver

Unit 2: RADIATION MECHANISMS AND DESIGN ASPECTS

1 Radiation Mechanisms of Linear Wire and Loop antennas,
2 Aperture antennas
3 Reflector antennas
4 Microstrip antennas and Frequency independent antennas
5 Design considerations and applications

Unit 3: ANTENNA ARRAYS AND APPLICATIONS

1 Two-element array
2 Array factor
3 Pattern multiplication
4 Uniformly spaced arrays with uniform and non-uniform excitation
5 Smart antennas

Unit 4: PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE DEVICES

1 Microwave Passive components:
2 Directional Coupler
3 Power Divider
4 Magic Tee
5 attenuator
6 resonator
7 Principles of Microwave
8 Semiconductor Devices:
9 Gunn Diodes
10 IMPATT diodes
11 Schottky Barrier diodes
12 PIN diodes
13 Microwave tubes:
14 Klystron
15 TWT
16 Magnetron

Unit 5:
1 Impedance transformation
2 Impedance Matching
3 Microwave Filter Design
4 RF and Microwave Amplifier Design
5 Microwave Power amplifier Design
6 Low Noise Amplifier Design
7 Microwave Mixer Design
8 Microwave Oscillator Design

OUTCOMES:
The student should be able to:
 Apply the basic principles and evaluate antenna parameters and link power
budgets
 Design and assess the performance of various antennas
 Design a microwave system given the application specifications
TEXT BOOKS:
1. John D Krauss, Ronald J Marhefka and Ahmad S. Khan, "Antennas and Wave
Propagation: Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2006. (UNIT I, II, III)
2. David M. Pozar, "Microwave Engineering", Fourth Edition, Wiley India, 2012.
(UNIT I,IV,V)

REFERENCES:
1. Constantine A.Balanis, ―Antenna Theory Analysis and Design‖, Third edition,
John Wiley India Pvt Ltd., 2005.
2. R.E.Collin, "Foundations for Microwave Engineering", Second edition, IEEE
Press, 2001