ELEC 622

Nonlinear Microwave Components

Units: 1.5

Linearity and nonlinearity, frequency generation, representation of two-port networks, travelling wave and transmission-line concepts, scattering matrix and chain scattering matrix, Smith chart, impedance matching networks, signal flow graphs, characteristics of microwave bipolar junction and field-effect transistors, microwave transistor amplifiers, noise, broadband and high-power design methods, microwave oscillators, millimeter wave amplifiers and oscillators, diode mixers, FET mixers, millimeter wave mixers.

Prerequisites: 454 or 521 or equivalent.

Graduate course in the Electrical Engineering program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.