Unit 1:
What is an antenna?
Types of antenna?
What are antenna parameters?
What is radiation sphere?
What is radiation pattern?
What is radiation resistance?
What is radiation intensity?
What is directivity?
What is antenna gain?
What is path loss?
What is free space propagation?
Give examples of types of antennas
Give applications of antennas
What is HPBW?
What is FNBW?
What HPBW of half wave dipole antenna?
What are major and minor lobes?
What is an isotropic antenna?
What type of radiation pattern an isotropic antenna, half wave dipole has?
What is near field and far field region?
Compare near and far field region.
What is polarization?
What are the types of polarization?
Explain: circular elliptical and linear polarization
What are types of wire antennas?
What are the lengths of respective antennas?
State pattern multiplication rule
What are antenna arrays?
Unit 2
Compare transmission line with waveguide
What is waveguide?
What is TEM, TE, TM mode?
What are limitations of transmission line?
What is intrinsic impedance?
What are microwave frequency bands?
What are properties of microwave signal?
What are applications of microwave signals?
What is cut off frequency?
What is cutoff wavelength?
What is guide wavelength?
What must be the value of beta for propagation of wave inside the waveguide?
What is wave velocity? Phase velocity?
What are losses in waveguide?
What are types of stripline?
What is cavity resonator?
Unit 3
What are S-parameters?
Properties of S-parameters
s- matrix for microwave junctions
what are passive components?
What are tees?
Explain properties of various tees
Applications of magic tee
What is gyrator?
Why h plane tee is called a 3-dB splitter?
Unit 4
What are active components?
List various microwave tubes?
What are limitations of conventional tubes?
What are microwave oscillators and amplifiers?
Give examples
What are the advantages of TWT?
What is phase focusing?
What is crossfield device?
What is difference between reflex klystron and magnetron?
Unit 5
What is negative resistance device?
Which microwave semiconductor diodes are negative resistance device?
What is special feature of Tunnel diode, SBD, and PIN diode
What are characteristics of the diode : Gunn diode, tunnel diode, SBD
Applications of these diodes?
Which diodes are used for generating microwave signals? As an oscillator
Unit 6
What is microwave measurement?
What is RADAR system?
explain Satellite communication
What are the parameters measured in microwave labs?
What is the use of wavemeter?
What is the use of slotted line section?
What are application of microwave signal in medical
What is microwave diathermy
Why is microwave signal harmful?
What are hazards caused due to microwave signal?
What is SAR
What is bolometer?
What is barettor?
What are the methods to measure power, attenuation, impedance?
