The students will be able to design a smal EM system for special applications in RF and microwave regime

1. identify the differences between lumped and distributed elements in RF and microwave regime.
2. explain construction of electromagnetic metamaterials
3. design electromagnetic system based on standard components and special metamaterial components
4. select appropriate numerical method for analysis of antennas or EM scatterers
5. apply commercial full-wave simulator in analysis of engineering problems in RF and microwave regime
6. develop a program for analyzing simple EM problems using finite-difference method or moment method

Each lecture unit is presented theoretically and practically, by experiments and computer simulations.

Four laboratory blocks are performed in groups of 4-5 students.

In lectures five demonstration experiments are performed. Each experiment is videotaped and projected onto the screen so that all students can follow the course of the experiment.

Design and construction of a part of special EM system.

Design, writing and testing of simple electromagnetic program.

1. Construction and Components of Engineering Electromagnetic Systems in Communication and Electronic Technology
2. Simplified Design using Lumped Elements and Transmission Lines - Example: Design of EM Guiding Structure (Microstrip Line or Waveguide)
3. Full EM Design - Example: Design of a simple Radiating Structure (Antenna or Scatterer)
4. Laboratory Exercise - Practical Differences between EM Structures Designed by Simplified or Full EM Approach
5. Description of electromagnetic problems using partial differential equations; finite differences method (FD), accuracy and stability of the method
6. Finite difference time domain method (FDTD). numerical stability and dispersion of the FDTD method, soft and hard source models, absorbing boundary conditions.
7. Integral method for analyzing electromagnetic problems, method of moments
8. Midterm exam
9. Examples of implementation of FD and FDTD methods: analysis of microstrip transmission structure and analysis of waveguide structure, analysis of wire antennas
10. Available Passive and Active EM Materials - Constraints of Classic Technology
11. How to manufacture EM Material with Properties not Available in Nature - The Concept of Metamaterials
12. Design and Applications of Metamaterials in Engineering - Examples : Super Lens and EM Cloak
13. Laboratory Exercise - Determination of Basic Parameters of Metamaterial-based Structures for Guiding of EM Energy in Microwave Regime
14. Radiated emissions and susceptibility, crosstalk; example of device design
15. Final exam