JHU EE774 RF and Microwaves I Course
    The Microwaves and RF course is taught by Dave Hamilton and John Penn.  Students learn about Microwave Circuit Design concentrating on passive devices and culminating in diode mixers by the end of the semester.  A second term Microwaves and RF II EE775 course concentrates on active devices including amplifiers--low noise, gain, and power, oscillators, and switching devices.  Fabricated circuits designed by the students are tested to complete the design learning cycle.  Test and measurements of the student designs are normally done during labs about twice each semester.  Each design through the two semester series will represent a piece of an system level design so that the students are not only learning how to design, and test microwave circuits, but learn how they fit into the overall system level design.

Syllabus:
Fall 2001
Fall 2002

Homeworks:
HW1--transmission lines, s-parameters, matrix, SFGs.
Part A
Part B

HW2--Couplers, Dividers, and Combiners.

HW3--Calibration, Measurement, and Matching.

HW4--Filters, Diodes, and Mixers.

Microwave Chapters for Dr. Lee Edwards Textbook:
    Chapters from Dr. Edwards Book are available to students in the RF and Microwave Course.  These are copyrighted.  Please treat them as such and they are intended for the students use only for this course.  Please do not distribute.  Feedback to Dr. Edwards would be appreciated.
Chapter 2:    Distributed-Element Circuit Analysis Techniques

Chapter 3:    S-Parameters, Signal Flow Graphs, and Other Matrix Representations

Chapter 4:    Circuit Technology

Chapter 5:    Circuit Fabrication

Chapter 6:    CAD of Linear Circuits

Chapter 7:    Calibration and Measurement of S-parms

Chapter 8:    Matching Networks

Chapter 9:    Couplers, Combiners, and Dividers

Chapter 11:    Non-Linear CAD

Chapter 13:    Mixers

Chapter 14:    Gain & Stability

Chapter 15:    Solid State Devices

Chapter 16:    Noise

Other Relevant Links:
Matlab Link--See Educational/student copy

Gee-CAD Link--Microwave Design Software developed by Dr. Lee Edwards and Sheng Cheng

MatLab Introduction (by Sheng Cheng):
    For those not familiar with Matlab, Sheng Cheng created a simple "tutorial" for using Matlab.  Sheng Cheng and Dr. Edwards have taught this course in past years.  This is a good exercise for those getting started.  There is a lot of functionality to Matlab and this covers some basics including plotting a sine wave.  Thanks Sheng.
Matlab Introduction--from Sheng Cheng

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Syllabus EE775:
Spring 2002

Homeworks (EE775):

HW1--Active Devices and Modeling

HW2--Small Signal Amplifier

HW3--Low Noise Amplifier

HW4--Medium Power Amplifier

HW5--ADS Non-Linear Simulations

HW6--Voltage Controlled Oscillator

HW7--Broad Band Amplifier

DataSheets:

Agilent 34143 PDF
    Agilent 34143 S-parms 2V 20mA Bias
    Agilent 34143 S-parms 3V 20mA Bias
    Agilent 34143 S-parms 3V 40mA Bias
    Agilent 34143 S-parms 4V 40mA Bias
    Agilent 34143 S-parms 4V 60mA Bias

NEC 34018 PDF
    NEC 34018 S-parms 3V 20mA Bias

NEC 76038 PDF

NEC 72218 PDF