Monday |
Wednesday |
5/14
Course Introduction
Syllabus
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5/16
Overview of Microwave Backscatter
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5/21
Microwave Oscillators
Chang, pp 367-394
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5/23
Piezoelectrics
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5/28
official holiday |
5/30
SAW devices
Westafer notes
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6/4
Basics of Amplifiers
Kenney notes 1
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6/6
Intermodulation Products
Kenney notes 9
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6/11
Tips for Microwave Circuit Layout
video tutorials
guest: Muhammad Bashir Akbar
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6/13
Tips for Microwave Circuit Layout
guest: Muhammad Bashir Akbar
collect Lab 1 and Lab 2 |
6/18
Two-element matching networks
Kenney notes 2
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6/20
Broadband microwave matching limits
Kenney notes 3
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6/25
Amplifier Classes
Chang, pp 405-418
Kenney notes 5, notes 6
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6/27
Microwave Charge Pumps
Trotter notes
Rectenna paper |
7/2
Quiz 1: Topics from first 5 weeks
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7/4
official holiday |
7/9
Loadn Circles; Load Pull Analysis
Chang pp 271-291
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7/11
Stability
Chang 418-433
Kenney notes 7 |
7/16
Backscatter Link Budgets
Griffin article
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7/18
Retrodirectivity
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7/23
Reliability
Kenney notes 15
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7/25
Quiz 2: Topics after week 5
Project compliance
Project reports and final exam (Friday) |
7/30
exam week (no exam in this class)
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