Course overview
- Course codeFMCC003
- ECTS credits7.5
- DepartmentMICROTECHNOLOGY AND NANOSCIENCE
- Graduate schoolMicrotechnology and Nanoscience
- Starts2025-03-24
- PeriodicityBiannually
- LanguageEnglish
- ApplicationContact course administrator
Course coordinator
- Jan Stake
- Full Professor, Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
About the course
Linearity, nonlinearity, nonlinear dynamic systems and examples such as the Van der Pol and Duffing oscillators, phase-portrait, chaos, frequency generation, intermodulation distortion, saturation, cross modulation, AM/PM conversion, spurious response, adjacent channel interference, quasi-static models, empirical versus physical models, large-signal scattering parameters, frequency domain versus time domain techniques, large-signal/ small-signal analysis (conversion matrices), harmonic balance technique, solution algorithms (Newton, optimisation, relaxation), selecting the number of harmonics and time samples (oversampling), power series, Volterra series, nonlinear reactive devices and Manley-Rowe relations, nonlinear resistive devices and Page-Pantell inequality, and some typical examples of nonlinear microwave circuits (mixers, multipliers, oscillators).
More information
Jan Stake (examiner), Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Lab, MC2. 031 - 772 1836,
jan.stake@chalmers.se, Room: D615a.
Literature
- Nonlinear Microwave and RF circuits by Stephen A. Maas, Second Edition, Artech, 2003.
- Steady-State Methods for Simulating Analog and Microwave Circuits by Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-2081-5.
- Stability analysis of nonlinear microwave circuits by Almudena Suarez and Raymond Quéré, Artech 2002.
- Technical papers
Lecturer
Jan Stake, Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Lab, MC2. 031 - 772 1836,
jan.stake@chalmers.se, Room: D615a.