Course overview
This course introduces the basics of RF Engineering. It covers a broad range of topics around RF devices and systems. The course illustrates how different building blocks such as amplifiers, oscillators and mixers, as well as guiding structures including transmission lines and waveguides, work together to build RF transmitters and receivers. It introduces important parameters and concepts related to these components, such as scattering matrices, impedance matching and non-linearities. The course shows how the electromagnetic theory applies to RF systems, and is a pathway towards more advanced courses on antennas & propagation and telecommunications.
- Introduction to Microwave Engineering
- Waveguiding theory and structures
- Network analysis and matching techniques
- Nonlinear RF components and distortion
Course learning outcomes
- Examine characteristics of guided waves with transmission line theory
- Analyse and design common transmission lines and waveguides
- Analyse RF sub-systems with microwave network analysis
- Calculate impedance matching network for RF systems
- Explain operation of nonlinear devices with small-signal approximation
- Examine characteristics of mixers
- Explain different types of nonlinear distortion with small-signal approximation
- Discuss how RF components constitute RF transmitters and receivers
Availability
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Class number 55456
Section FR01
Size 15
Available 15
Class number 60118
Section LE01
Size 200
Available 200
Class number 55457
Section PR01
Size 15
Available 15
Class number 55458
Section TU01
Size 15
Available 15
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 55459
Section FR01
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 60117
Section LE01
Size 200
Available 200
Class number 55460
Section PR01
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 55461
Section TU01
Size 40
Available 40
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