ECE 770
Special Topics in Antenna and Microwave Theory
Fall 2025 · Modern Quantum Optics and Nanophononics
Topics
- Semiclassical light–matter interactions and Bloch equations
- Electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light
- Optical resonators and microcavities
- Photonic crystals and plasmonic confinement
- Electromagnetic-field quantization
- Cavity quantum electrodynamics and spontaneous emission
- Atomic ensembles, photon storage and Rydberg blockade
- Atom cooling and trapping
- Single-photon sources and detectors
Winter 2024
Topics
- Winter 2024 ECE474 Radio and Wireless Systems ECE 770-Topic 22: Special Topics in Antenna and Microwave Theory: Radio and Wireless Systems
Readings
- B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics, Prentice Hall, 1998. - Kai Chang, RF and Microwave Wireless Systems, Wiley, 2000. - John S. Seybold, Introduction to RF Propagation, Wiley, 2005. - Louis E. Frenzel Jr., Principles of Electronic Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2008. - Michael Steer, Microwave and RF Design – A System Approach, SciTech, 2010. - D. M. Pozar, Microwave and RF Wireless Systems, Wiley, 2001.
- - Instructor’s Course Notes
Winter 2018
Readings
- Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design
- Additional References o Steve C. Cripps , RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications , Second Edition, Artech House, ISBN: 1-59693-018-7 o Stephen A. Maas, Nonlinear Microwave and RF Circuits , Second Edition, Artech House , ISBN: 1-58053-484-8 o Andrei Grebennikov, Nonlinear Microwave and RF Circuits, First Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-07-144493-9
- o Peter Aaen, Jaime A. Plá, John Wo od, (2007) Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0521336171
- Course notes, problem sets and solutions will be available on LEARN at the start of the term.
Winter 2017 · Topic 4 - Winter 2017
Readings
- Theory and Computation of Electromagnetic Fields
- Lecture Notes and papers from the current literature.
Winter 2017 · Topic 7 - Winter 2017
Readings
- Microwave Filters for Communication Systems - Fundamentals, Design and Applications
Spring 2017 · Topic 20 - Spring 2017
Topics
- Meaning and definition of material electromagnetic properties
- Fundamentals of wave propagation in regular and irregular media
- Propagation in negative and positive media
- Propagation in anisotropic and periodic media
- Artificial media and negative media
- Phase velocity, group velocity and dispersion and energy considerations
- Dielectric and non-dielectric metamaterial particles
- Material parameters extraction
- Resonance
- Quasi-static resonance
- Application of metamaterial in energy harvesting and sensing
- Near-zero media and its applications
- Relationship between frequency selective surfaces and metamaterials
Fall 2017 · Topic 21 - Fall 2017
Topics
- Weeks 1 and 2: Introduction to optical resonators
- losses, Q-factor, finesse, free spectral range, mode volume of a resonator
- Mechanisms for confinement of light
- total internal reflection (TIR)
- electromagnetic propagation in periodic media: Bloch waves and band structure
- photonic crystals, photonic bandgap
- surface plasmons
- Weeks 3 and 4: Semiclassical model of light-matter interactions
- review of quantum mechanics: states, time evolution, density matrix
- two-level atoms interacting with classical fields: Rabi flopping, Bloch sphere and Bloch equations, effects of spontaneous emission
- weak probe approximation and slowly-varying envelope approximation
- three-level atoms interacting with classical fields: electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light
- Week 5: Electromagnetic field quantization
- lossless 1D resonator with a uniform dielectric field constant
- free space
- lossy resonator: quantum Langevin equation
- Weeks 6 and 7: Introduction to cavity quantum electrodynamics
- strong coupling regime
- weak coupling regime
- density of photon states and spontaneous emission rate
- Lindblad superoperator and quantum master equation
- quantum emitters in contemporary research
- Week 8: Types of optical microcavities
Winter 2016 · Topic 16 - Winter 2016
Topics
- matching networks
- gain circles
- stability circles
- noise circles
- spectral domain analysis
- time domain analysis
- Newton-Raphson Method
- harmonic balance analysis
- small signal equivalent circuits
- nonlinear I-V and C-V models for MOSFETS
- nonlinear models for GaAs MESFETs and HEMTs
- nonlinear bipolar device modeling
- load-pull techniques
- practical design of linear RF PAs
- overdriven PAs and Class F mode
- switching mode PA
- power amplifier bias circuit design
Readings
- Steve C. Cripps, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications, Second Edition, Artech House, ISBN: 1-59693-018-7
- Stephen A. Maas, Nonlinear Microwave and RF Circuits, Second Edition, Artech House, ISBN: 1-58053-484-8
- Andrei Grebennikov, Nonlinear Microwave and RF Circuits, First Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-07-144493-9
Spring 2016 · Topic 9 - Spring 2016
Readings
- Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design
- W. Stutzman, G. A. Thiele, Antenna Theory and Design, 3rd edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2012- 2013.
- Course notes and papers from the current literature.
Winter 2015 · topic 11 - Winter 2015
Readings
- Modern Quantum Mechanics, J.J. Sakurai. Addison-Wesley Publishing, (1994).
- Course Notes, Frank Wilhelm
Winter 2015 · topic 14 - Winter 2015
Topics
- Quantum Physics
- The Schrodinger Equation
- Electrons in Quantum Confined Structures (quantum well, wire, dot and superlattice)
- Axiomatic Structure of Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Dynamics
- Electrons in Electromagnetic Field
- Angular Momentum and Spin
- Quantum Statistics
- Review of Classical Electrodynamics
- Electromagnetic (EM) Field Quantization
- Quantum States of EM Field
- Electron/Photon & Atom-EM Field Interaction
- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
- Quantum Information Processing
Readings
- D.J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995.
- H. Kroemer, Quantum Mechanics for Engineering, Material Science and Applied Physics, Prentice Hall, 1994.
- A.F.J. Levi, Applied Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 2006.
- W. Greiner, Quantum Mechanics An Introduction, 4th ed., Springer, 2001.
- Ph. Martin, F. Rothen, Many-Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory, 2nd edition, Springer, 2004.
- C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Lalole, Quantum Mechanics, JW, 1971.
- W. H. Louisell, Quantum Statistical Properties of Radiation, Wiley, 1973.
- U. Leonhardt, Measuring Quantum State of Light, Cambridge, 1997.
- H.A. Bacher, T.C. Ralph, A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics, 2nd Edition, Wiley-VCH, 2003.
- M. Fox, Quantum Optics, An Introduction, Oxford, 2005.
- J.C. Garrison, R.Y. Chiao, Quantum Optics, Oxford, 2008.
- D. Marcuse, Principles of Quantum Electronics, AP, 1980.
- S. Datta, Quantum Transport, Atom to Transistor, Cambridge, 2005.
- H. Bruus, K. Flensberg, Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Oxford, 2004.
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