ELCT 564 – RF Circuit Design for Wireless Communications
Instructor: Dr. Guoan Wang
Lectures: MW 2:00-3:15 pm SWGN 2A05
Office: SWGN 3A31
Office hours: MW 1:00-2:00 pm, other times by appointment
Office phone: 803-777-6303
TA: Mr. Sam Wang ( wang378@email.sc.edu
) e-mail: gwang@cec.sc.edu
Text: David M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 4 th Edition , J. Wiley & Sons.
Spring 2013
Prerequisite: ELCT361 or equivalent. I will assume that students have a familiarity with undergraduate electromagnetic field theory.
Grading policy:
Homework: 15 %
Projects: 15 %
2 quizzes: 20 % each
Final exam: 30 %
Grading scheme
Graduate students:
A=90-100% B=80-90% C=70-80% D=60-70% F=below 60%
Undergraduate students:
A=85-100% B=75-85% C=65-75% D=55-65% F=below 55%
Homework and exam policy:
Problems will be assigned at regular intervals and collected. Solutions will be made available with the graded problems.
There will be in-class quizzes during the middle of the semester. The final exam will be given at the scheduled time during exam week.
Academic Conduct:
Students in this class are expected to abide by the University of South Carolina Honor Code and avoid any instance of academic misconduct, including but not limited to:
Possessing, using, or exchanging improperly acquired oral or written information in the preparation of a quiz or exam.

Submission of material that is substantially identical to that created or published by another individual, except as noted below.
False claims of performance or work that has been submitted by the student.
Students may work in groups of 2-3 in the preparation of homework assignments, provided that each student makes a “good faith” effort to contribute to the group effort and turns in their own write-up of the assignment.
See the University of South Carolina Honor Code for further information.
Topic
Transmission Lines
Introduction to course - Review of Maxwell's equations, boundary conditions
Wave equations and solutions, energy and power - Transmission line parameters
The Smith Chart - The Slotted Line and quarter-wave transformer
Generator and load mismatches – Lossy transmission lines
HP-ADS Demonstration - Matching with lumped elements
Single stub matching - Double stub matching
Theory of small reflections – Binomial and Chebyshev transformers -
Tapered lines – TEM, TE and TM waves
Parallel plate waveguide – Rectangular waveguide
Quiz #1
Rectangular waveguide, coaxial cables and connectors
Stripline, microstrip, CPW and dispersion
Impedance and equiv. voltages & currents, Z & Y matrices
Scattering matrix and transmission matrix
Examples of S-matrices, signal flow graphs
Section
1.2-1.4
1.5-1.6, 2.1-2.3
2.4, 2.4-2.5, 5.4
2.6-2.7,
5.1, 5.2
5.2-5.3
5.5 - 5.7
5.8, 3.1
3.2 – 3.3
3,3, 3.5
3.7, 3.8,3.10, 3.11
4.1-4.2
4.2-4.4
4.5
Network analyzer measurements and calibration techniques, Filter design
Filter transformations and implementations
Stepped impedance low-pass filters and coupled line
Notes, 4.3, 8.3
8.4, 8.5
8.6-8.7
Filters using coupled resonators - Basic properties of dividers and couplers 8.8, 7.1
Quiz#2
T-junction and the Wilkinson power divider 7.2-7.3
The quadrature hybrid and coupled line couplers
180 o Hybrid, magic Tee – Diodes and detectors
Diodes, detectors and noise in microwave systems
7.5-7.6
7.8, 11.1
11.1, 10.1
Single diode mixers, balanced mixers
Balanced mixers, microwave transistors
Research topics, review
13.5
13.5, 11.2-11.3