Section-A
WAVEGUIDES: Introduction, comparison with transmission lines, propagation in
TE & TM mode, rectangular wave guide, TEM mode in rectangular wave guide,
characteristic impedance, introduction to circular waveguides and planar transmission
lines.
Section-B
MICROWAVE COMPONENTS &TUBES: Directional couplers, tees, hybrid ring, Sparameters,
attenuators, cavity resonators ,mixers & detectors, matched Load, phase
shifter ,wave meter, Ferrite devices: Isolators, circulators. Limitation of conventional
tubes; Construction, operation and properties of Klystron amplifier, reflex Klystron,
magnetron, TWT , BWO , crossed field amplifiers.
Section-C
MICROWAVE SOLID STATE DEVICES & MEASUREMENTS: Varactor diode,
Tunnel diode, Schottky diode, GUNN diode, IMPATT, TRAPATT and PIN diodes.
MASER, parametric amplifiers .Power measurement using calorimeter & bolometers
measurement of SWR, frequency , wavelength and impedance. Microwave bridges.
Section-D
RADAR: Block Diagram and operation, Radar Frequencies, Simple form of Radar
Equation, Prediction of Range
Performance, Pulse Repetition frequency and Range Ambiguities, Applications of Radar