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 antenna and waveguiding structures, propagation, and scattering of electromagnetic waves. Applications in antenna engineering, 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, electromagnetic radiation
- Antenna theory
- General theory of waveguides: spectral domain (plane wave spectrum) techniques and application to planar multi-layer circuits, periodic structures
- Cylindrical and spherical waves
- Scattering problem formulation, integral equation methods
- Fundamentals of computational and asymptotic electromagnetism as applied to high-frequency problems (microwave/millimeter-wave antennas, 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 375/471, advanced engineering mathematics, and basic programming skills.