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EC323 TRANSMISSION LINES AND WAVE GUIDES
Course Description & Objectives
Review of network filters, attenuator, static electric and magnetic fields and
applications, Maxwells equations, transmission lines, propagation and
reflection of plane waves, Introduction to guided waves. To become familiar
with propagation of signals through lines & Understand signal propagation at
Radio frequencies and analyze the Rectangular and circular waveguide
Course outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
a. Analyze the transmission lines,
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Analyze the waveguides,
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Analyze the Network filters and attenuators
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At the end of the course, the students would be aware of the different
parameters and constraints in high frequency transmission of information.
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Comprehensive understanding of ideal transmission line behavior in
transient and steady state conditions.
UNIT I - Network filters and attenuators :
Network function, driving point and transfer impedances and their properties,
Poles and zeros of network function. Filter networks, Classification of filtersconstant K filters, m-derived filters, band pass filter and band stop filter.
Attenuators - T-type attenuator, Pi-type attenuator, lattice attenuator, Bridged
T-attenuator, L-type attenuator.
UNIT II - Transmission lines I :
Introduction, Lumped & Distributed Circuit elements, Transit Time Effect,
Transmission line equations, Types of Transmission Lines, Complex
Propagation Constant & Characteristic Impedance of Transmission Line,
Travelling Waves, Formation of Standing Waves on a Line, Voltage Reflection
Co-efficient and its Relation to Load Impedance, Impedance at any Point on
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the Line, Loss - less and Low - loss Transmission Lines, Voltage Standing
Wave Ratio, Return Loss & Reflection Co-efficient.
UNIT III - Transmission lines II :
Power Transfer on Transmission Line, Complex Impedance (Z) & Reflection
co-efficient planes, Constant Resistance Circles, Constant Reactance
Circles, Smith Chart, Constant VSWR Circles, VSWR on the line, Analysis of
Transmission Line in terms of Admittances, Admittance Smith chart,
Applications of Transmission Lines Measurement of Unknown Impedance,
Transmission Line as a Circuit Element, Transmission Lines as Resonant
Circuits, Impedance Matching, Single-Stub Matching Technique, Double-Stub
Matching Technique.
UNIT IV - Wave guides -I :
Introduction to Rectangular Waveguides, Solutions of field Equations in
Rectangular Co-ordinates, TEmn & TMmn Modes in Rectangular Waveguides,
impossibility of TEM waves in Rectangular wave guides, Waveguide
Parameters Cut-off wavelength, Guide wavelength, Free space
Wavelength, Phase velocity, Group velocity, Dominant and Degenerated
Mo d es , Power Tra ns mis s io n a n d Power lo s se s i n Re ct an g ul a r
Waveguides.
UNIT V - Wave guides II :
Introduction to Circular waveguides, solutions of a field equations in
cylindrical coordinates, TE mn & TM mn Modes in Circular Waveguides,
Waveguide Parameters Cut-off wavelength, Guide wavelength, Free
space Wavelength, Phase velo city, Group velo city, Dominant and
Degenerated Modes, Power Transmission and Power losses in Circular
Waveguides.
TEXT BOOKS :
1. Sudhakar & Shyammohan Circuits and Networks Analysis and
synthesis 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill.
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Samuel Y. Liao Microwave Devices and Circuits 3rd Edition,
Pearson Education, Inc.
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REFERENCE BOOKS :
1.
Umesh Sinha, Transmission lines and Networks, Sathya Prakasham
Publishers, 1997.
2.
M. Kulkarni Microwave and Radar Engineering 3rd Edition, Umesh
Publications.
3.
Frankline F.Kuo, Network Analysis and Synthesis, Wiley Eastern ed.,
1996.
4.
M.E. Van Valkenburg, Network Analysis, 3 rd edition, PHI, 2008.
5.
John. D. Ryder, Network lines and fields, 2nd edition, PHI Learning,
2005.
6.
R.E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering, 2nd edition, McGrawHill, 1993.
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