ECE422: Radio and Wireless Microwave Systems
Course Notes
The following is a list of links to PDF files of notes that roughly correspond to the topics of the lectures, in chronological order. They are posted for the benefit of other educators and students interested in the area of radio systems.
- Review of Maxwell's Equations
- The Radiation Mechanism
- Uniform Plane Waves
- Spherical Waves (optional)
- Wave Polarization
- Vector Magnetic Potential
- Solution to the Nonhomogeneous Wave Equation
- Ideal (Hertzian) Dipole
- Small Loop Antenna and Duality (tutorial))
- Antenna Characteristics
- Half-wave Dipole
- Near- and Far-Field Distances (tutorial)
- Introduction to Arrays
- Lorentz Reciprocity Theorem
- Receiving Antennas
- Free Space Radio Links
- Friis' Formula and Effects
- Folded Dipole
- Image Theory / Monopoles
- Antenna Arrays
- Continuous Arrays
- Reflection / Refraction
- Plane Earth Reflection
- Diffraction
- Atmospheric Effects: Atmospheric Refraction
- Atmospheric Effects: Ionospheric Propagation
- Atmospheric Effects: Atmospheric and Rain Attenuation
- Noise in Radio Systems
- Link Budgets
- Satellite Links
- Brief Introduction to Orbital Mechanics (optional)
- RADAR Systems