Microwave Theory and Techniques

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1 : Introduction to Microwaves: History and Applications, Effect of Microwaves on

human body
Week 2 : Microwave Transmission Modes, Waveguides, Transmission Lines
Week 3 : Smith Chart, Impedance Matching, ABCD and S-Parameters
Week 4 : Power dividers, Combiners, Couplers
Week 5 : Microwave Filters
Week 6 : Microwave Diodes and Attenuators, RF Switches, Phase Shifters
Week 7 : Microwave Transistors, Amplifiers and LNA
Week 8 : Power Amplifiers and Microwave Tubes
Week 9 : Microwave Oscillators and Mixers
Week 10 : Antennas – Fundamentals, Dipole, Monopole, Arrays, Microstrip, Horn,
Helical, Yagi-Uda, Log-Periodic and Reflector Antennas
Week 11 : RF MEMS and Microwave Imaging, Microwave Systems, Microwave
Measurements and Lab Demonstration
Week 12 : Software Session

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

(1) R.E. Collins, Microwave Circuits, McGraw Hill

(2) D.M. Pozar- Microwave Engineering
(3) B. Bhat and S.K. Koul -Stripline Like Transmission Structures
(4) I. J. Bahl and P. Bhartia- Microwave Solid State Circuit Design
 Microwave Engineering
COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Introduction to Microwave Engineering and Transmission line theory

Week 2: Rectangular and Circular waveguides
Week 3: Microwave Networks and Scattering Matrix
Week 4: Impedance Matching
Week 5: Microwave Resonators
Week 6: Power divider, directional couplers and filters
Week 7: Microwave Semiconductor Devices
Week 8: Microwave Amplifiers and Oscillators
Week 9: Microwave Tubes
Week 10: Ferrite devices
Week 11: Introduction to Microwave Integrated Circuits (MIC)
Week 12: Microwave Communication Systems and other application areas.

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

D. M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering; 4/e, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012.
R. E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering; 2/e, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2000.
S. M. Liao, Microwave devices and Circuits; 3/e, Prentice Hall of India, 2004.
 Introduction to Wireless and Cellular Communications
COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Overview of Cellular Systems and evolution 2g/3G/4G/5G

Week 2: Cellular Concepts – Frequency reuse, Cochannel and Adjacent channel
Interference, C/I, Handoff, Blocking, Erlang Capacity
Week 3: Wireless propagation Part 1 - Link budget, Free-space path loss, Noise figure of
receiver
Week 4: Wireless propagation Part II - Multipath fading, Shadowing, Fading margin, Shadowing
margin,
Week 5: Antenna Diversity
Week 6: Wireless Channel Capacity
Week 7: MIMO
Week 8: CDMA Part I
Week 9: CDMA Part II
Week 10: OFDM and LTE Part I
Week 11: OFDM and LTE Part II
Week 12: Large Scale Propagation effects and Channel Models

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

1.T. S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications – Principles and Practice” (2nd edition) Pearson,
2010, ISBN 9788131731864
2.A. Molisch, "Wireless Communications," Wiley, 2005Haykin & Moher, "Modern Wireless
Communications" Pearson 2011 (Indian Edition)
3.J. G. Proakis, "Digital Communications," McGraw Hill
4.A. Goldsmith, "Wireless Communications," Cambridge Univ Press, 2005
5.D. Tse and P. Viswanath, "Fundamentals of Wireless Communications," Cambridge Univ
Press, 2005
 Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Techniques
COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1 : Electromagnetic nature of light, Uniform plane waves, Boundary conditions

Week 2 : Reflection and transmission of waves at a boundary, Total internal reflection, Ray
theory of dielectric slab waveguides, and optical fibers
Week 3 : Modal analysis of slab waveguides
Week 4 : Modal analysis of optical fibers (step and graded index), linearly polarized modes
Week 5 : Attenuation and dispersion in optical fibers, Concepts of spontaneous and stimulated
emission of light
Week 6 : Optical sources: Lasers and LEDs
Week 7 : Optical amplifiers, Photodiodes
Week 8 : Noise in photo detectors, WDM optical Components
Week 9 : Analog and digital optical communications, Direct detection receivers
Week 10: Coherent detection, Noises, Comparison of direct and coherent detection
Week 11: DSP algorithms for coherent optical communications
Week 12: Multiplexing techniques in fiber-optic communications

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

1. Optical Fiber Communications, G. Keiser, Fifth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill

References:
1. Fiber Optic Communications, S. Kumar and M. J. Deen, Wiley
2. Advanced Optical Communications Systems and Networks, I. B. Djordjevic and M. Cvijetic,
Wiley
3. Optical Networks: A practical perspective, R. Ramaswamy and K. Sivarajan
Other references will be mentioned during the course.
 DC Microgrid

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Brief introduction and Concepts of Microgrid

Week 2: Types of Microgrid system, Microgrids vs Central Conventional power system
Week 3: AC and DC Microgrids, comparison between AC and DC Microgrids
Week 4: Power Electronic Converters in Microgrid application, DC Microgrid Topologies
Week 5: DC Power source components, application of DC Microgrids
Week 6: DC Microgrid operations, Some Standards related with DC Power Circuit.
Week 7: Control methods in DC Microgrid
Week 8: Linear and nonlinear Stability system in DC Microgrid

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

1. Fusheng Li, Ruisheng Li, Fengquan Zhou, Microgrid Technology and Engineering
Application, Elsevier, 2015
2. S. Chowdhury, P. Crossley, Microgrids and Active Distribution Networks, Institution of
Engineering and Technology, 2009
3. Nikos Hatziargyriou, Microgrids Architectures and Control John Wiley Sons, 2014
4. Manuela Sechilariu, Fabrice Locment, Urban DC Microgrid: Intelligent Control and Power
Flow Optimization, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016
5. Hassan Bevrani, BrunoFrançois, Toshifumi Ise, Microgrid Dynamics and Control John
Wiley Sons, 2017
6. Gevork B. Gharehpetian, S. Mohammad Mousavi Agah, Distributed Generation Systems:
Design, Operation and Grid Integration, Butterworth Heinemann, 2017
Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications
with MATLAB Programming and Simulink
COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1:1 Introduction to State Space

2 State Space Representation
3 State Space Representation: Companion Form (Controllable Canonical Form)
4 State Space Representation :Extended Controllable Canonical Form
5 State Space Representation :Observable Canonical Form
Week 2: 1 State Space Representation: Diagonal Canonical Form (Part I)
2 State Space Representation: Diagonal Canonical Form (Part II)
3 State Space Representation: Jordan Canonical Form
4 State Space Representation: Numerical Examples on State Space Modelling (Part I)
5 State Space Representation: Numerical Examples on State Space Modelling (Part II)
Week 3 : 1 Modelling of Mechanical Systems in State Space
2 Modelling of DC Servo Motor (Part I)
3 Modelling of DC Servo Motor (Part II)
4 Determination of Transfer Function from State Space Model (Part-I)
5 Determination of Transfer Function from State Space Model (Part-II)
Week 4: 1 Stability Analysis in State Space:Concept of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (Part I)
2 Stability Analysis in State Space (Part II)
3 Stability Analysis in State Space:Lyapunov Stability Analysis (Sylvester’s
Criterion) (Part III)
4 Stability Analysis in State Space:Lyapunov Stability Analysis (Stability Criterion)
(Part IV)
5 Stability Analysis in State Space:Lyapunov Stability Analysis (Direct Method) (Part
V)
Week 5: 1 Concept of Diagonalization
2 Solution of State Equation
3 Solution of State Equation (Forced system)
4 Steady State Error for State Space System
5 State Transition Matrix (Part-I)
Week 6: 1 State Transition Matrix (Part-II)
2 State Transition Matrix using Caley Hamilton Theorem (Part-III)
3 MATLAB Programming with State Space
4 Controllability in State Space (Part-I)
5 Controllability in State Space (Part-II)
Week 7: 1 Observability in State Space (Part-I)
2 Observability in State Space (Part-II)
3 Pole Placement by State Feedback (Part-I)
4 Pole Placement by State Feedback (Part-II)
5 Pole Placement by State Feedback (Part-III)
Week 8: 1 Tracking Problem in State Feedback Design (Part-I)
2 Tracking Problem in State Feedback Design (Part-II)
 3 State Observer Design (Part-I)
4 State Observer Design (Part-II)
5 State Observer Design (Part-III)

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

Test books:

1. Katsuhiko Ogata, Modern Control Engineering, PHI, 2009.

2. Ashish Tewari, Modern Control Design: with MATLAB and SIMULINK, Wiley, 2002.
3. D. Roy Choudhuary, “Modern Control Engineering, PHI, 2005.

REFERENCE BOOK AND RESEARCH PAPERS:

Stefani et al, Design of Feedback Control Systems, Oxford, Fourth edition, 2002.

Research papers:

[1] D.G. Luenberger , “ An Introduction to Observer,” IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, pp. 596-
602, 1971.
[2] S-H Hou, “A Simple proof of the Leverrier Faddeev characteristic polynomial algorithm,”
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 706-709, Sept. 1998.