Syllabus Application
Microwave Devices and Circuits
EE 633
Faculty:
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Semester:
Fall 2025-2026
Course:
Microwave Devices and Circuits - EE 633
Classroom:
FENS-L027
Level of course:
Masters
Course Credits:
SU Credit:3.000, ECTS:10
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Course Type:
Lecture
Instructor(s) Information
İlker Kalyoncu
Yaşar Gürbüz
- Email: yasar@sabanciuniv.edu
Course Information
Catalog Course Description
Very-high frequency behavior of electronic devices. Avalanche, transferred electron, and acoustoelectric oscillators and amplifiers; parametric interactions. General properties and design of nonlinear solid-state microwave networks, including: negative resistance oscillators and amplifiers, frequency convertors and resistive mixers, transistor amplifiers, power combiners, and harmonic generators.
Course Learning Outcomes:
| 1. | To understand the concept of analog and RF integrated circuits technology |
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| 2. | To understand RF and microwave transistor technologies and their RF-Models |
| 3. | To understand fundamental design parameters of RF integrated circuits such as S-parameters, nonlinearity, sensitivity, efficiency, noise figure, input, output dynamic ranges etc. |
| 4. | To design matching and impedance transformation networks using in integrated circuits and components |
| 5. | To understand fundamentals of the following RF integrated system building blocks and circuits: Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators, Frequency Synthesizers, and Power Amplifiers |
| 6. | To be able to analyze, design and simulate integrated RF circuits such as Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators, Frequency Synthesizers, and Power Amplifiers |
| 7. | To be able to use and implement RF integrated circuits design and simulation tools such as ADS, Cadence Spectre |
| 8. | To be able to use and implement integrated passive components for different RF integrated circuit applications such as sonnet SONNET tools |
| 9. | To be able to understand RF integrated system specifications and breakdown these specs to building block and circuit levels |
| 10. | To be able to measure and characterize RF integrated components and circuits. |
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