Schedule - ECE 556

N. Scott Barker

Date	Lecture	HW	Resources
Thurs. Jan. 15	Introduction to Microwave Engineering	HW #1 - Circuit Theory solution	Reviews: Phasors, Complex Power, dB scale
Tues. Jan. 20	Transmission Line Theory	-	Pozar 2.1
Thurs. Jan. 22	Terminated t-lines	HW #2 - Transmission solution	Pozar 2.3
Tues. Jan. 27	Lossy t-lines & Time-domain response	-	Pozar 2.7
Thurs. Jan. 29	Smith charts	HW #3 solution	Pozar 2.4
Tues. Feb. 3	Quarter-wave Transformer	-	Pozar 2.5
Thurs. Feb. 5	Guest Speaker: Prof. Dave Wentzloff - RFICs	HW #4 solution	Pozar 3.4, 3.8
Tues. Feb. 10	Scattering Parameters	-	Pozar 4.1
Thurs. Feb. 12	Properties of the scattering matrix	HW #5 solution	Pozar 4.3
Tues. Feb. 17	Impedance and Admittance matrices	-	Pozar 4.2, 4.4
Thurs. Feb. 19	Signal Flow Graphs	1st Exam solution	Pozar 4.5
Tues. Feb. 24	Matching Networks	-	Pozar 5.1
Thurs. Feb. 26	Single-stub matching	HW #6 solution	Pozar 5.2
Tues. March 3	Spring Break	-	-
Thurs. March 5	Spring Break	-	-
Tues. March 10	Double-stub matching	-	Pozar 5.3
Thurs. March 12	Single & multi-section matching	HW #7 solution	Pozar 5.5
Tues. March 17	Couplers	-	Pozar 7.1, 7.2
Thurs. March 19	Wilkinson power divider	HW #8 solution	Pozar 7.3
Tues. March 24	Branch-line and Rat-race couplers	-	Pozar 7.5, 7.8
Thurs. March 26	Field Trip to VDI directions from UVA plan to arrive at 2pm	2nd Exam solution	-
Tues. March 31	Lumped-element implementation	-	Presentation
Thurs. April 2	Filter design	HW #9 solution	Pozar 4.1, 8.1
Tues. April 7	Filter transformation and scaling	-	Pozar 8.4
Thurs. April 9	Filter implementations	HW #10 solution	Pozar 8.5
Tues. April 14	BPF using l/4 resonators	-	Pozar 8.8
Thurs. April 16	Coupled transmission lines	HW #11 solution	Pozar 7.6
Tues. April 21	Coupled-line filters	-	Pozar 8.7
Thurs. April 23	Power meters / Diode detectors	-	Pozar 10.3
Tues. April 28	Review	Final Exam	-
Fri. May 8	Final Exam	-	-