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ECE 3300 Fundamentals of EM and Transmission Lines

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  • Official Prereqs (add any comments on if you think we might need to add/could delete any of these)
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  • What are your thoughts on this course, what is working particularly well, what might we consider changing, anything you think we should think about...

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ECE 5321/6323 Microwave Engineering II

ECE 5320/6322 Microwave Engineering I

Fall 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Topics:

Transmission line theory: 7 Lectures

Transmission lines and waveguides: 3 Lectures

Microwave network analysis: 6 Lectures

Impedance matching and tuning: 6 Lectures

Power dividers and directional couplers: 3 Lectures

Microwave filters: 6 Lectures

Microwave devices: 3 Lectures

Microwave amplifiers: 5 Lectures

 

ECE 5324/6324 Antennas

ECE 5331/6331 Optics for Energy

  • Fall 2019 Rajesh Menon https://nanoptics.wordpress.com/optics-for-energy-fall-2019/ Links to an external site.
  • Cross-listed with MSE, ME, Physics, Online section. Approx. 21 students last year. 
  • No official pre-requisites. 
  • Students seem to like the project-based learning. Student teams work to innovate and "virtually" create a startup. Combine optical engineering (plus some basic thermodynamics) with entrepreneurship. 
  • Working on modular lectures and improved flipped experience. Can be fully online, so will experiment different options in 2020. 

ECE 5350/6350 Metamaterials and Advanced Antenna Theory

  • Fall 2013 David Schurig https://my.ece.utah.edu/~dschurig/5/ECE_5350_and_6350_Fall_2013/Overview.html Links to an external site.
  • Fall 2014 David Schurig https://my.ece.utah.edu/~dschurig/7/ECE_5350_and_6350_Fall_2014/Overview.html
  • Fall 2015 David Schurig https://my.ece.utah.edu/~dschurig/9/ECE_5350_and_6350_Fall_2015/Overview.html
  • Fall 2016 David Schurig https://my.ece.utah.edu/~dschurig/11/ECE_5350_and_6350_Fall_2016/Overview.html
  • Fall 2017 David Schurig https://my.ece.utah.edu/~dschurig/13/ECE_5350_6350_Fall_2017/Overview.html
  • Fall 2019 David Schurig https://my.ece.utah.edu/~dschurig/15/ECE_5350_6350_Fall_2019/Overview.html

ECE 5410 Lasers and Their Applications (to be re-named)

  • Fall 2019 Steve Blair
  • Fall 2020 Weilu Gao
  • Pre-requisite 3300 (probably also need 3200)
  • What we expect students to know, part I: wave equation (Helmholtz-like, scalar and vector) and plane and spherical wave solutions, field, intensity, energy, refractive index and absorption, relationship among frequency, wavelength, index. phase velocity; polarization, Fresnel relations (TIR); Fourier transform
  • What we expect, part II: charge carriers semiconductors, conduction and valence bands; DOS and Fermi-Dirac; current injection and recombination
  • We do go back over all of these topics and build upon them, but it really helps that students have seen these before.
  • In Fall 2019, the undergrads were not that enamored with the pace and rigor of the class; I think by separating into I and II, we can slow down a bit and better bring out the interesting phenomena and applications.
  • Ideally, labs should be very hands-on (student lab groups should build the setups), but I'm not sure when/if we can really pull this off. We'll have to buy much cheaper optics for this.
  • Optics I and II (or whatever we call them) should be the entry point for our optics (and many solid state) research students. From what I've seen through participating on many PhD committees of these students, their backgrounds are really poor, even at the Proposal stage, and we should just make I and II program requirements. I and II, however, should not be roadblocks to other, more broadly attended optics classes such as Optics for Energy or Integrated Optics.

 

----      ECE 6310 Adv. EM Fields

Spring 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019; Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

 

Course Overview

Review of Maxwell's macroscopic equations in integral and differential forms including boundary

conditions, power and energy computations, and time-harmonic formulations. Macroscopic-electrical properties of matter. Oblique incidence plane-wave propagation and polarization in multi-layered media.  Separation of variable solutions of the wave equation in rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinates.  Vector potential theory and the construction of solutions using Green's theorem. Electromagnetic theorems of duality, uniqueness, reciprocity, reaction, and source equivalence. Waveguide, cavity, antenna, and scattering applications in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical geometries.

We will also be learning how to solve analytical problems and visualize solutions and concepts using Maple/Mathematica, and numerical simulations using HFSS.

 

Topics:

Time-Varying and Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields: 3 lectures

Electrical Properties of Matter: 2 lectures

Wave Equation and its Solutions: 2 lectures

Wave Propagation and Polarization: 3 lectures

Reflection and Transmission: 3 lectures

Auxiliary Vector Potentials: 3 lectures

Electromagnetic Theorems and Principles: 2 lectures

Rectangular Cross-Section Waveguides and Cavities: 3 lectures

Circular Cross-Section Waveguides and Cavities: 2 lectures

Scattering: 3 lectures

 

-- ECE 6960 Terahertz technology (Fall 2014, Spring 2017);  Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Course Overview

Interactions of terahertz waves with matter. Gaussian beam propagation. Gaussian beam transformations. Refractive and reflective focusing elements. Frequency independent quasi-optical components. Frequency selective quasi-optical components (planar structures and thick structures). Generation and detection of broadband terahertz pulses (pulse propagation in linear and dispersive media, femtosecond lasers, terahertz time domain spectroscopy, photoconductive antennas, optical rectification, free-space electro-optic sampling, ultra broadband terahertz pulses). Continuous wave sources and detectors (photo-mixing, difference frequency generation, frequency multiplication, quantum cascade lasers, thermal detectors, diode detectors). Terahertz systems and applications.We will also be learning how to solve analytical problems and visualize solutions and concepts in numerical simulations using HFSS.

Course Objectives

In this course, students will obtain:1. Familiarity with Gaussian beam propagation. 2. Ability to understand and simulate the frequency response of quasi-optical components. 3. Understanding of the terahertz response of materials including their physical origin. 4. Familiarity with mechanisms of generation and detection of terahertz waves. 5. Ability to use HFSS in the solution of problems, design of structures, and visualization of their response.