ECE 166A:
Microwave Circuits and Systems
Schedule:
T/Th at 3:30-4:50 pm (lecture)
Friday at 2:00-2:50 pm (recitation session)
Location: Center Hall, Room 212 (lecture and recitation session)
Website: https://sites.google.com/eng.ucsd.edu/ece166
All material (lectures, additional notes, homework assignments and solutions, announcements, corrections, etc.) will be posted on this website.
Submit homework solutions on Canvas.
Instructor:
Prof. Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Email: rebeiz@ece.ucsd.edu, grebeiz@ucsd.edu
Office: Jacobs Hall (formerly EBU-1); Room 5608
Office Hours: T/Th 10:20-11:30 am
TA's and Office Hours
Ethan Valdez e1valdez@ucsd.edu Friday, 3-4:30 pm (after recitation session), Tutoring Center, Rm. 5101D, 5th Floor, Jacobs Hall
Poornima Asuti pasuti@ucsd.edu Friday, 3-4:30 pm (after recitation session), Tutoring Center, Rm. 5101D, 5th Floor, Jacobs Hall
Wilson Huang wjh002@ucsd.edu Monday, 2-4:30 pm, Tutoring Center, Rm. 5101C, 5th Floor, Jacobs Hall
Alex Liu ahl003@ucsd.edu T/Th, 2-3:00 pm, Tutoring Center, Rm. 5101B, 5th Floor, Jacobs Hall
Manoj Maddula mmaddula@ucsd.edu Wednesday, 4-6:00 pm, Rm. 4506, Jacobs Hall
Homework:
5-6 Homeworks will be assigned
All homework solutions are due at the beginning of the lecture, and should be submitted on Canvas.
Homework solutions will be posted about 24 hours after the due date
Late Homeworks will not be accepted except by permission from Prof. Rebeiz
Grading *:
16% Homework
6% Lab
34% Mid-term Tuesday November 5, 2024 in class (same time as lecture)
44% Final Exam Monday December 9, 2024, 3-6 pm, room to be determined
All exams are closed notes and closed books. Bring a cheat-sheet that you wish to write.
Lab Sections:
Lab will start in October, more details to be announced
See announcements in class about lab sections and entrance into lab sections.
Lecture Notes:
Only the lecture notes and material posted on this website are required.
Lecture Notes can be downloaded from this website.
But if you want to learn more and check concepts out, then please see below.
Textbook:
Not required but recommended
Pozar Microwave Engineering, 4th ed. Wiley, 2012
The UCSD library has this as unlimited simultaneous users on ProQuest – accessible from this catalog record:
https://search-library.ucsd.edu/permalink/01UCS_SDI/ld412s/alma991009895889706535
Students need to use UCSD Protected WiFi or VPN with 2-step secured – allthruucsd to access the book.
Users may download over 100 pages as pdf per session, it would take about 6 passes/sessions to download and save the entire book as pdf.
Other Books:
UCSD has the e-book and it’s on Knovel so you can save as many chapters as pdf whenever the students have Protected WiFi or VPN switched on. It is 952 pages. Catalog record is here:
https://search-library.ucsd.edu/permalink/01UCS_SDI/ld412s/alma9914834116006531
Alternative
Steer, Michael B.. (2010). Microwave and RF Design - A Systems Approach. SciTech Publishing. Retrieved from
https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpMRFDASA2/microwave-rf-design-systems/microwave-rf-design-systems
Michael Steer has published on University of Minnesota’s Open Textbook site what looks to be the successor title as a multi-volume book set in 2019. These are open access textbooks available as pdf format that is free (or the student can purchase print for a reasonable cost of $14 per volume ):
Fundamentals of Microwave and RF Design https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/fundamentals-of-microwave-and-rf-design
Microwave and RF Design: Radio Systems https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/754
Microwave and RF Design: Transmission Lines https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/microwave-and-rf-design-transmission-lines
Microwave and RF Design: Networks https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/microwave-and-rf-design-networks
Microwave and RF Design: Modules https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/microwave-and-rf-design-modules
Microwave and RF Design: Amplifiers and Oscillators https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/microwave-and-rf-design-amplifiers-and-oscillators
3. Radio Frequency and Microwave Electronics Illustrated, Radmanesh, Prentice Hall, 2001
4. Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, Ulaby, Prentice Hall, 7th Edn, 2015 (web companion site)
Keysight ADS software labs will also be assigned. We will show you how to use it in time.
Prerequisites:
Decent math background in differential equations and complex numbers.
Preliminary Circuits (ECE 45/65 or equivalent)
Preliminary EM (Physics and ECE 107)
Thoughts for the homework:
The homework will be graded very generally. That is, we will assign 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, and 0 as grades with the following guidelines: 10 (well done to mostly done), 8 (few things are lacking), 6 (about half of it is done), 4 (about half is done), 2 (most things are not done) and 0 (lacking or homework is not given). Late Homeworks are not allowed unless by permission from the instructor by email.
*See note on Academic Dishonesty on this website