ECE 675 - Radiation and Propagation of Electromagnetic Fields
Instructor
Professor Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
Description
The course covers theoretical foundations of engineering electromagnetics as applied to generation, propagation, and scattering of electromagnetic waves. Main concepts and techniques underlaying modern computational methods will be emphasized. Applications in RF/microwaves and photonics will be presented.
Detailed description
- Review of Maxwell’s equations, boundary conditions, and potential theory
- Fundamental concepts and theorems: electromagnetic equivalence, reciprocity, Green’s function representation
- Antenna theory
- Spectral domain (plane wave spectrum) techniques and application to planar multi- layer circuits, periodic structures
- Cylindrical and spherical wave functions
- Scattering problem formulation, integral equation methods
- Fundamentals of computational and asymptotic electromagnetism as applied to high-frequency problems (microwave/millimeter-wave, THz, and photonics)
Textbook
- Lecture Notes and papers from the current literature
- Jian-Ming Jin, Theory and Computation of Electromagentic Fields, IEEE Press, 2010.
References
- Jean G. Van Bladel, Electromagnetic Fields, Second Edition, IEEE Press, 2007.
Related background
- Basic knowledge of electromagnetic fields and waves and RF/microwave circuits equivalent to ECE 471, advanced engineering mathematics, and basic programming skills