HOOGHLY ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

COURSE PLAN

Department: Electronics and Communications Engineering Session: 2023-24

Year: 5th Semester:5th
Paper Name: Electromagnetic Waves Paper Code:EC-501
Contact/week: Credit:3
Available Weeks: No. of Periods available:
Name of the Faculty:Dr. Ankan Bhattacharya
Designation: Associate Professor

Assigned Number of Assigned Number of

Module Topics to be covered
Lectures Tutorials
Uniform Plane Wave- Uniform plane wave,
Propagation of wave, Wave polarization 2
Poincare’s Sphere, Wave propagation in
conducting medium, phase and group velocity, 2
Surface current and power loss in a conductor
II Plane Waves at a Media Interface- Plane wave
2
in arbitrary direction
Reflection and refraction at dielectric
interface, Total internal reflection wave
polarization at media interface, Reflection 2
from a conducting boundary
Transmission Lines- Equations of Voltage and
Current on TX line, 2
Propagation constant and characteristic
impedance, and reflection coefficient and 2
VSWR,
Impedance Transformation on Loss-less and
III Low loss Transmission line, Power transfer on 2
TX line
Smith Chart, Admittance Smith Chart 1
Applications of transmission lines: Impedance
Matching, use transmission line sections as 1
circuit
IV Surface currents on the waveguide walls, Field
visualization, Attenuation in waveguide 2

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Signature of the HOD Signature of the Faculty