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Topic 0 — Course Introduction
Topic 1 — Maxwell’s Equations
Topic 2 — Electromagnetic Properties of Materials
- Notes – Lorentz models for dielectrics and drude models for metals
- Notes – Nonlinear And Anisotropic Materials
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- Note: the videos below are older than the notes above so the content may differ.
- Video — Lorentz model for dielectrics and drude model for metals
- Video — Nonlinear and anisotropic materials
Topic 3 — Electromagnetic Waves
- Notes – Electromagnetic Waves And Polarization
- Notes – Lossy Dielectrics And Power Flow
- Notes – Scattering From An Interface
- Notes – Standing Waves And Multiple Scattering
- Animation of a wave changing speed and wavelength after entering a second material
- Animation of the definition of a wave vector
- Animation of a wave propagating in a vacuum
- Animation of a wave propagating in a lossless dielectric
- Animation of a wave propagating in a lossy dielectric
- Animation of instantaneous Poynting vector
- MATLAB Figure (gives you ability to orbit) of Geometry of Scattering at an Interface
- Animation of Snell’s Law — low index to high index
- Animation of Snell’s Law — high index to low index
- Animation of Standing Waves — high to low impedance interface
- Animation of Standing Waves — low to high impedance interface
- More Mathematical Animation of Standing Waves — high to low impedance interface
- More Mathematical Animation of Standing Waves — low to high impedance interface
- Animation of Standing Wave Ratio
- Video: Polarization of Light: CP, LP, and unpolarized
- Summary Of Electromagnetic Waves
- Summary Of Scattering At An Interface
Topic 4 — Transmission Lines
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- Notes – Transmission Lines
- Notes – Transmission Line Behavior
- Notes – Multi Segment TLs
- Movie of Impedance Transformation
- Animation of Impedance Transformation
- Animation of VSWR with an open-circuit load
- Animation of VSWR with a short-circuit load
- Animation of VSWR with Z0 > ZL
- Animation of VSWR with Z0 < ZL
- Animation of VSWR terminated with an RL circuit
- Animation of VSWR terminated with an RC circuit
- Summary Of Transmission Lines
Topic 5 — Waveguides
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- Notes – Waveguide Introduction And Analysis Setup
- Notes – Parallel Plate Waveguide
- Notes – Rectangular Waveguide
- Notes – Other Waveguides
- Animation of TM0 (TEM) mode in a parallel plate waveguide
- Animation of TM1 mode in a parallel plate waveguide
- Animation of TM2 mode in a parallel plate waveguide
- Animation of TE1 mode in a parallel plate waveguide
- Animation of TE2 mode in a parallel plate waveguide
- Animation of TE3 mode in a parallel plate waveguide
- Movies of modes in a rectangular waveguide
Topic 6 — Computational Electromagnetics
Topic 7 — Smith Charts
- Notes – Smith Charts
- More Detailed Notes – Smith Charts (Microwave Engineering)
- Smith Charts (Wikipedia)
- Smith Charts (Microwaves101.com)
- Smith Charts Calculations (ARRL White Paper)
Topic 8 — Electromagnetic Devices
Resources
MATLAB
- Getting Started with MATLAB
- Notes – MATLAB Introduction And Graphics
- Notes – Building Geometries In Data Arrays
- Download .zip file with MATLAB codes
- tlcalc.p — This is a MATLAB function that simulates any two-conductor transmission line. The dielectric can be anything isotroic.
- tlcalc_demo.m — This MATLAB program demonstrates the use of tlcalc() by calculating the paramters for a microstrip transmission line.
- Note: Some of the above items are protected function files and have a “.p” extension. They work just like “.m” files, but they cannot be opened to view the code inside of them.
Smith Charts