Prof. Popovic advises on research in areas of high-efficiency linear and broadband microwave power amplifiers, low-loss broadband microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and antennae, millimeter-wave and THz quasi-optical techniques, active antenna arrays, wireless powering for low-power sensors and high-power wireless near-field charging, microwave applications in medicine such as core body temperature measurements, microwave heating for waste management and Rydberg atom microwave and millimeter-wave quantum sensors.
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Microwave and millimeter-wave analog circuits and antennae
COEN 1830 - Special Topics
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Explores topics of interest in engineering. Content varies by instructor and semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
ECEN 3400 - Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
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Spring 2019
Electromagnetic fields are covered at an introductory level, starting with electrostatics and continuing with DC current, magnetostatics, time-varying magnetic fields, waves on transmission lines, Maxwell's equations and the basics of plane waves. The use of fields in inductors, capacitors, resistors, transformers, and energy and power concepts are studied.
ECEN 3410 - Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2023
Covers reflected and transmitted plane waves in layered media, Poynting's theorem of electromagnetic power, two-conductor transmission line theory and practice, Smith chart usage and impedance matching, waveguides, and elements of antenna theory.
ECEN 4634 - Microwave and RF Laboratory
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2021
This course is a hands-on introduction to RF and microwave topics, from fundamentals including vector network analyzer (VNA) calibration and operation, power measurements, and antenna characterization, to system-level topics such as RADAR systems and superheterodyne links. Students work in small groups on weekly experiments based on both coaxial and waveguide setups. An understanding of electromagnetic waves (such as covered in ECEN 3400 and ECEN 3410) is assumed. The graduate version of the course (ECEN 5634) includes additional homework and exam problems and extended laboratory exercises compared to ECEN 4634. Same as ECEN 5634.
ECEN 5004 - Special Topics
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Spring 2018
Examines a special topic in Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
ECEN 5014 - Special Topics
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2024
Examines a special topic in Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
ECEN 5024 - Special Topics
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as ECEN 4024.
ECEN 5104 - Passive Microwave Circuits
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Fall 2024
Building on fundamentals taught in a class such as ECEN 3410 (Electromagnetic Waves), this course teaches fundamentals of microwave passive circuit analysis using scattering parameters. Design of impedance matching networks, impedance transformers, couplers, filters, dividers/combiners and other typical circuits used at microwave frequencies are covered. Using an industry-standard CAD tool, design of microstrip circuits is emphasized. Assignments include theoretical and CAD approaches to analysis and design of passive microwave transmission-line circuits.
ECEN 5114 - Electromagnetic Theory
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Fall 2023
This course covers theory and applications of Maxwell's equations at the graduate level, including various electromagnetic wave types. Additionally, fundamental electromagnetic theorems such as Poynting, equivalence, duality, reciprocity and compensation, are studied through examples across the electromagnetic spectrum.
ECEN 5634 - Microwave and RF Laboratory
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2021
This course is a hands-on introduction to RF and microwave topics, from fundamentals including vector network analyzer (VNA) calibration and operation, power measurements, and antenna characterization, to system-level topics such as RADAR systems and superheterodyne links. Students work in small groups on weekly experiments based on both coaxial and waveguide setups. An understanding of electromagnetic waves (such as covered in ECEN 3400 and ECEN 3410) is assumed. Same as ECEN 4634.
