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Passive microwave circuit components, reciprocal and nonreciprocal, CAD tools, scattering matrix representation of microwave circuit, microstrip line circuits, microwave measurements, active Microwave sources and amplifiers.

Theory of light guidance on planar dielectric sheets and on dielectric rods, signal loss and dispersions on fibers, attenuation and dispersion measurements, principles of optical sources and detectors, system design, lab work on OTDR and dispersion measurement sets.

Numerical Techniques for solving electromagnetic problems: Finite Differences, Richardson's Extrapolation, Relaxation Method, Finite Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Method, Variational Methods, Finite Element Method (FEM), Method of Moments (MoM), Transmission-Line Matrix (TLM) Method.

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Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields, sources of electromagnetic interference, conducted and radiated interference, grounding and shielding, electromagnetic interference filtering, electromagnetic compatibility standards, compatibility measurements and Testing.

Radiation Characteristics, airborne and space-born sensors and instruments, satellite systems, ultispectral/Hyperspectral Data Compression, transmission, archiving, and distribution, spectral signature characteristics of soil, vegetation, water, and cloud, Multispectral/Hyperspectral Data Processing, analysis, and classification, active radar and microwave remote sensing, applications of remotely sensed data in reconnaissance, agriculture, geology, hydrology, forestry, oceanography, meteorology, & ecosystem studies

Introduction to wireless communication principles, the cellular concept-system design issues, signal propagation and link budgets for wireless links, communication over fading channels, modulation, multiplexing, and multiple access techniques, channel coding for wireless systems, speech coding for wireless networks, and wireless communication networks.

Review of solid state physics fundamentals, solid state energy band structure, electron and hole statistics, theory of electric conduction in semiconductors, generation recombination phenomena, PN junction static and dynamic behavior, non-ideal PN junction behavior, operation at microwave frequencies, the PIN diode, metal semiconductor contacts, the MOS capacitor, the MOSFET transistor, ideal and non-ideal behavior of the MOSFET transistor, short channel effects in MOSFETs, hot electron effects in MOSFETs, the Bipolar Junction Transistor, long base and short base BJT: ideal and non-ideal behavior, the Early effect, the Kirk effect, operation at microwave frequencies, hetero-junction devices, photonic devices, semiconductor device processing, novel processing techniques, new applications of semiconductor materials and devices.

Types of signals and systems, thin and thick film (hybrid) technology, MOS and Bipolar technology and modeling, switched capacitor (SC) resistor simulation, MOS SC integrators, first order SC building blocks, SC biquads, basic analog building blocks, current mirrors, comparators , Transconductance and Operational amplifiers , realization and design, examples of Non-Linear Circuits.

Overview of digital circuit design, CMOS inverter, CMOS logic gate circuits, Pseudo-NMOS logic circuits, pass transistor logic circuits, dynamic logic circuits, latches and flip-flops, multivibrator circuits, semiconductor memories (RAM and ROM), Bipolar Transistor Transistor Logic (TTL), Bipolar Emitter coupled logic circuits (ECL), BiCMOS digital circuits.

Laboratory experiments related to 0610433 course contents.

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Introduction to MOS technology, gate level minimization, scaling of MOS technology and circuits, layout algorithms and techniques, combinational CMOS digital blocks, aspects of system timing, synchronous and asynchronous sequential logic, register transfer level, programmable logic and FPGA's, introduction to HDL, design project.

Implementation strategies for digital IC's, interconnects, more on timing issues in digital circuits, design of arithmetic building blocks, finite state machines, design of memories and array structures, introduction to digital circuit simulation, placement and routing and synthesis design tools, configuration and implementation of designs on FPGA's, Testing and Verification techniques of digital circuits, design project.

Overview on the nature of light using both the classical and the modern approach. Light generation, propagation and interaction with matter. Optical waveguides and optical cavities. Lasers: Basic structure and operation. Examples of solid state lasers. Semiconductor device fundamentals, the PN junction. Light emitting diodes: Basic structure, materials, characteristics, circuits and applications. Semiconductor lasers: Basic structure, materials, characteristics, circuits and applications. Photodiodes: Basic structure, materials, characteristics, circuits and applications. Photovoltaic devices.