ECE 604 Electromagnetic Field Theory

Instructor: Professor W.C. Chew, x4-4502, Wang 3053, wcchew@purdue.edu

Office Hours: Tue-Thu, 3-4:30 pm

TA (unofficial): Boyuan ZHANG (zhan3241) and Jie ZHU (zhu797)

Grader: Gregory Chang changg@purdue.edu

Secretary: Chris Ramsey, Wang 2080, cramsey@purdue.edu

Textbook: Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, S. Ramo, J.R. Whinnery, and T. Van Duzer, 3^rd Ed.

Supplementary Texts: Electromagnetic Wave Theory, J.A. Kong. ECE 350X notes. Theory of Optical and Microwave Guides notes. Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, Chap. 1. Classical Electrodynamics, J.D. Jackson. Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements, H.A. Haus.

Fall 2018, FRNY B124, Tue-Thu 1:30 – 2:45 pm

Tentative Course Outline (Revised Nov 28, 2018)

	Tuesday	Thursday
Week 1, Aug 21	1 Introduction, electrostatics, Coulomb’s and Gauss’s laws	2 Gauss’s law in differential form, Faraday’s law, constitutive relations, scalar potential, Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations
Week 2, Aug 28	3 Boundary conditions, electric energy	4 Boundary conditions, unconventional way
Week 3, September 4	5 Green’s function, uniqueness theorem	6 Magnetic force, Biot-Savart law
Week 4, September 11	Review of examples and homeworks	EXAM 1, Sep 13, 2018
Week 5, September 18	7 Magnetic scalar potential, boundary condition, magnetic energy, inductance	8 Maxwell’s equations, integral and differential form, boundary condition
Week 6, September 25	9 Constitutive relations, energy and power	10 Time harmonic field, complex power
Week 7, Oct 2	11 Transmission lines	12 Transmission lines—impedance matching
Week 8, Oct 9	FALL BREAK	EXAM 2, Oct 11, 2018
Week 9, October 16	13 Terminated transmission line, Smith Chart, VSWR	14 Multi-section transmission line, uniform plane wave
Week 10, October 23	15 Drude-Lorentz-Sommerfeld model	16 Phase and group velocity, energy density dispersive media
Week 11, October 30	17 Duality, reflection and transmission, TIR, Brewster, surface plasmon polariton	18 Uniform plane wave and transmission line homomorphism, wave polarization
Week 12, November 6	19 Waveguides, TE and TM modes	20 Radiation by antennas and sources, dipole array
Week 13, November 13	Review of examples and homeworks	EXAM 3, Nov 15, 2018
Week 14, November 20	21 Uniqueness principle and image theorem	THANKSGIVING
Week 15, November 27	22 Reciprocity theorem. Paraxial wave equation	23 Rayleigh scattering, Mie scattering
Week 16, December 4	24 Quantum theory of light	25 Coherent state of light
Week 17, December 11	FINAL EXAM TBD

HW=100 pts, EXAMS 1, 2, 3=300 pts, FINAL EXAM=200 pts, TOTAL=600 pts