Credits: 3
Semesters Offered
Spring 2025
TestudoLearning Objectives
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENEE381, ENEE382, or ENEE489R.
Description: Modern applications and operational principles of high-power microwave (HPM) sources are explored. A team-based, complete design of a system for a novel HPM source is developed, presented, and evaluated based on the required specifications of the intended application.
Semesters Offered
Spring 2025
Learning Objectives
- Understand design and operation of high-power microwave sources.
- Understand techniques of microwave system design.
- Apply industry-standard design software (HFSS) to microwave system design.
- Understand, select, and specify passive microwave components.
- Understand, select, and apply microwave sources in system design.
- Understand, select, and apply microwave detectors in system design.
- Understand, analyze, and optimize the performance of microwave systems.
- Design a practical microwave system In a team-based project
- Present the team-based design in interim and final reports and final oral presentation.
Topics Covered
- Traveling Wave Tubes
- Klystrons
- Magnetrons
- Gyrotrons
- Crossed-Field Amplifiers
- Relativistic Devices
- Microwave system design, project feasibility, manufacturability, cost estimation
- Safety issues related to microwave radiation.
- Design documentation