Overview

Indicative content includes:

• A general overview of microwave systems engineering, including a number of practical system configurations developed for medical applications will be given.

• This will be followed by an introduction to microwave system design in terms of attenuation and gain of passive and active components respectively, and use of dB and dBm to design basic system line-ups.

• Microwave transmission lines commonly used in microwave system design, i.e. co-axial lines and microstrip lines, will be introduced and it will be shown how to calculate their characteristic impedance.

• A range of microwave system design techniques will then be introduced; including: derivation and use of the impedance transformation equation, graphical design techniques using Smith Charts.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply microwave engineering techniques to solve problems encountered in industry.

• Appraise the breadth of applications of microwave engineering (communications, industrial processing, medical).

• Interpret microwave measurements using a vector network analyser (VNA) and their outputs.