Course Details

Course details of EE5505W
Course NoEE5505W
Course TitleWave Propagation in Communication
Credit9
Course ContentReview of Maxwells equations, Boundary ConditionsWave equation, Plane wave solution, Wave Characteristics, characteristic impedancePolarisation, EM spectrum, Poynting TheoremWave propagation in unbounded media - dielectrics, conductors, skin effect, plasmaPlane waves at media interface - normal incidencePlane waves at media interface -oblique incidence, Snells Law, TIR, Brewsters angleMultilayers, impedance matchingParallel plane waveguides -TEM, TE and TM modes, cut off frequenciesDistributed impedance, microstripsWaveguides : rectangular waveguide, TE, TM, modesAttenuation in waveguides Dielectric slab waveguide, concept of a fibreBasics of radiation theory-retarded potentials, radiation from a linear dipole antennaAntenna Patterns and Antenna parameters, Antenna arrays
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