Advanced Communications Circuit Design
Code: 42836 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 4313797 Telecommunication Engineering | OB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Juan Fernando Martin Antolin
- Email:
- ferran.martin@uab.cat
Teachers
- Paris Velez Rasero
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Good knowledge on the fundamentals of RF/microwave engineering
Objectives and Contextualisation
The main aim is the design of communication devices, focused on performance improvement, size and cost reduction, on the basis of advanced concepts, such as artificial transmission lines, and electromagnetic bandgaps, among others. It is also the aim of the module to know and use electromagnetic simulators for the design of RF/microwave components, as well as to stablish specific experimetnal set-up for the characterization of RF/microwave components.
Competences
- Capacity for critical reasoning and thought as means for originality in the generation, development and/or application of ideas in a research or professional context.
- Capacity for developing electronic instrumentation as well as transducers, actuators and sensors.
- Capacity to apply advanced photonic and optoelectronic knowledge , as well as high frequency electronics
- Demonstrate an entrepreneurial, creative and innovative spirit
- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
- Student should possess the learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a way that is largely student led or independent
- Students should know how to apply the knowledge they have acquired and their capacity for problem solving in new or little known fields within wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the area of study
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
Learning Outcomes
- Apply miniaturisation strategies to the design of microwave components.
- Capacity for critical reasoning and thought as means for originality in the generation, development and/or application of ideas in a research or professional context.
- Demonstrate an entrepreneurial, creative and innovative spirit
- Design high performance and low cost communications circuits using periodic structures (electromagnetic and photonic crystals) and artificial transmission lines.
- Design microwave components using equivalent circuits and simulation tools.
- Design simple sensors based on RF techniques
- Develop advanced high frequency components using engineering techniques of dispersion and impedances.
- Establish size and characterisation environments for communications circuits
- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
- Student should possess the learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a way that is largely student led or independent
- Students should know how to apply the knowledge they have acquired and their capacity for problem solving in new or little known fields within wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the area of study
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
Content
- Miniaturization techniques. Slow-wave components, semilumped components.
- Spurious and interference suppression techniques. Periodic structures. Electromagnetic bandgaps.
- Artificial transmission lines. Dispersion and impedance engineering. Applications: broadband and multiband components, filters and diplexers, distributed amplifiers, microwave sensors, leaky wave antennas.
- Electromagnetic software tools.
- Instrumentation and characterization.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| presential classes | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 10, 9 |
| problem resolution | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 9 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| work at lab | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 9 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| study by the student and preparation of lab exercises | 70 | 2.8 | 1, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8 |
| suplementary work | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 |
The methodology will combine in-situ classes, problem resolution, work in the laboratory, the realization of supplemental works from recommended lectures and autonomous work as well. Virtual platforms will be used.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam | 75% | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 10, 9 |
| lab | 25% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 10, 9 |
One or two exams each with a total weight of 75%, or an exam and a report on a scientific paper.
Deliverables from lab. and exercises (25%)
The minimum to overcame the subject in regard to the two exams is an average of 4. If not, it is not possible to overcome the subject with the lab exercices.
if the continuos evaluation is not passed by the student, then there will be a final exam where, again, a minimumn of 4 is needed to overcome the subject. If the score in the final exam is less than 4, then the maximum final score will not be above 4.9.
"No present" applies if the student does not make the exam. I global final score of 5 is needed.
Bibliography
- F. Martín, Artificial transmission lines for RF and microwave Applications, John Wiley & Sons Inc, New Jersey, 2015.
- C. Caloz and T. Itoh, Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave Applications, John Wiley & Sons,INC, New Jersey, 2006.
- G.V. Eleftheriades and K.G. Balmain, Negative refraction metamaterials: fundamental principles and applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey 2005.
- R. Marqués, F. Martín, and M. Sorolla, Metamaterials with negative parameters: theory, design and microwave applications, John Wiley & Sons Inc, New Jersey, 2007.
Software
Keysight ADS
Language list
Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.