Microwave Engineering

Kỹ Thuật Siêu Cao Tần

Theory 30, Practice 12

Final exam 60% Practice 20% Group assignment 20%

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Contents
1. Transmission Line
2. Smith Chart
3. Scattering Parameters
4. Microwave Amplifier Design

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Learning Resources
[1] Vũ Đình Thành, Kỹ Thuật Siêu Cao Tần, NXBKHKT, 1997
[2] David M. Pozar, Microwave Engireeing, 4th edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
[3] Vũ Đình Thành, Mạch Siêu Cao Tần, NXBKHKT, 1997
[4] Samuel Y. Liao, Microwave Circuits and Devices, Prentice Hall, 1987.
[5] Gonzalez, “Microwave Transistor Amplifiers”, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed. 1997

Software: Smith Chart (V4.1), AWR Design Environment

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Radio Frequency Bands
US Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Applications of Microwave Engineering
➢Communications
▪ Broadcast: TV, AM, FM radio,…
▪ Mobile/wireless communication: GSM, 4G, 5G, WIFI, Bluetooth,…
▪ Satellite, astronomy communication
▪ Global navigation satellite system: GPS (US), GALILEO (EU),
GLONASS (RU), BEIDOU (CN)
➢Remote sensing
▪ Radar
▪ Radio telescope
➢Medicine
▪ Microwave treatment
▪ Microwave diagnostic
➢Other Applications
▪ Microwave drying, cooking
▪ Microwave weapon
▪ Quantum information processing systems rely on a broad range of
microwave technologies

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Benefits in Microwave Frequency Band
➢ Expansion in frequency resource region
➢ Small antenna/circuit size
➢ High spatial resolution for sensing/diagnostic/treatment system
➢ Avoiding the high noise density spectrum region due to the industrial
electrical system

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Microwave Circuit Examples
A power amplifier for X-band radar applications

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Microwave Circuit Examples

Microstrip couplers, divider and filter 8

Microwave Circuit Examples

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Microstrip ring coupler

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Microwave Component Example

Circulator
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Microwave Component Example

Port2

Port1

Port3

Circulator, input signal into port 1

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Microwave Component Example

Port2

Port1

Port3

Circulator, input signal into port 3

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 Microwave MMIC Example

39GHz GaN MMIC Front End Module targeting 5G base

stations and terminals using a 0.15µm GaN-on-SiC process
(MMIC - Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits, GaN - Gallium Nitride, SiC - Silicon Carbide )
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Microwave Design Software

Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS)

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Microwave Design Software

3D modelling and 3D Full EM simulation with CST MICROWAVE STUDIO

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Microwave Measurement

Calibration kits

VNA- Vector network analyzer Microscope Probe station

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EM Distribution on Transmission Lines

E field on Parallel wire/ twin wire

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EM Distribution on Transmission Lines

H field on Parallel wire/ twin wire

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EM Distribution on Transmission Lines

EH fields on coaxial cable

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EM Distribution on Transmission Lines

EH fields on Microstrip line

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Transmission Lines

Coplanar waveguide

Strip line

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