RF MEMS IISC

Sir I need the syllabus for the Microwave Engineering & RF MEMS of the IISC so can you please provide me the same ?

Well the RF MEMS is one area of research that has come into existence during the past few years

It is course of the department of the Electrical Communication Engineering of the IISC

Electrical Communication Engineering Course curriculum

Detailed Course Outline

1. Introduction to MEMS, general concepts on miniaturization and fabrication (1)

2. MEMS Materials, Fabrication and Processes: Silicon, other substrates, ceramics (1)

3. Lithography, Deposition techniques, Etching techniques (2)

4. Bulk micromachining, Surface micromachining (2)

5. Actuation Mechanisms in MEMS, Electrostatic actuation, Comb drive actuators (3)

6. Intro. Microwave Engg. RF transmission lines: theory, high freq effects (4)

7. Sections of transmission lines: special cases, Transmission line examples: microstrip,
CPW(4)

8. S-parameter theory, ABCD, parameter extraction, Introduction to RF MEMS (4)

9. RF MEMS Switches: Intro, basic design guidelines

10. RF switch design case studies, Performance improvement approaches
11. Micromachined passive components, theory, features, tunable capacitors, inductors

12. RF resonators & filters

13. RF Filter design concepts

14. Mechanical filters: design approaches, RF filters with MEMS, mmwave filters, SAW,
BAW filters

15. Phase Shifters: introduction, basic theory, applications

16. RF MEMS Phase shifters, Distributed MEMS phase shifters, Ferroelectric phase
shifters

17. Micromachining concepts for antennas:

18. Antenna parameters, Microstrip antennas, Microstrip antenna design, key factors
affecting performance

19. Micromachined antennas, Micromachined Txn lines and components

20. Reliability & packaging, RF MEMS Packaging (5)

Evaluation: Tests & Home Works

Test 1 Aug, 24 2005 15%

Test 2 Sept 14 2005 15%

Test 3 Oct. 26 2004 15%

Homework/Project* 5%

Finals 50%

Attached Files Available for Download

Syllabus for the Microwave Engineering & RF MEMS of the IISC.pdf (453.8 KB, 7 views)

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