ECE 604 Electromagnetic Field Theory

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

Office Hours: Tue: 8:00-9:00 pm, Wed: 8:00-9:00 pm, Thu: 8:00-9:00 pm.

Teaching Team (unofficial): Boyuan ZHANG (zhan3241), Jie ZHU (zhu797), and Ivan Okhmatovskii (iokhmato), Assist. Instructor: Dr. Dongyeop NA (na32).

Secretary: Lori Carte, Wang 2080, ljcarte@purdue.edu

Recommended Textbook: Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, S. Ramo, J.R. Whinnery, and T. Van Duzer, 3rd Ed. (The course will be taught mainly from lecture notes.)

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.

Spring 2021, Online MWF 10:30 - 11:20 am

Very Tentative Course Outline (Revised Mar 10 2021)

Front Matter
1 Introduction, Maxwell's Equations.
2 Maxwell's Equations, Differential Operator Form.
3 Constitutive Relations, Wave Equation, Electrostatics, and Static Green's Function.
4 Magnetostatics, Boundary Conditions, and Jump Conditions.
5 Biot-Savart law, Conductive Media Interface, Instantaneous Poynting's Theorem.

6 Time-Harmonic Fields, Complex Power.
7 More on constitutive relation. Uniform plane wave.
8 Lossy Media, Lorentz Force Law, Drude-Lorentz-Sommerfeld Model.
9 Waves in Gyrotropic Media, Polarization.
10 Momentum, Complex Poynting's Theorem, Lossless Condition, Energy Density.

11. Transmission lines.
12. More on Transmission Lines.
13. Multi-Junction Transmission Lines, Duality Principle.
14. Reflection, Transmission, and Interesting Physical Phenomena.
15. More on interesting physical phenomena, Homomorphism with Transmission Lines.
16. Waves in layered media. Phase and group velocity. Transverse resonance.
17. Dielectric Slab Waveguides.

18. Hollow waveguides.
19. More on Hollow Waveguides.
20. More on Waveguides and Transmission Lines.
21. Cavity Resonators.
22. Quality Factor of Cavities, Mode Orthogonality.

23. Scalar and Vector Potentials.
24. Circuit Theory Revisited.
25. Radiation by a Hertzian Dipole.
26. Radiation Fields, Directive Gain, Effective Aperture.
27. Array Antennas, Fresnel Zone, Rayleigh Distance.
28. Different Types of Antennas - Heuristics.

29. Uniqueness Theorem.
30. Reciprocity Theorem.
31. Equivalence Theorems, Huygens' Principle.
32. Shielding, Image Theory.

33. High Frequency Solutions, Gaussian Beams.
34. Scattering of Electromagnetic Field.
35. Spectral Expansions of Source Fields - Sommerfeld Integrals.
36. Computational Electromagnetics, Numerical Methods.
37. Finite Difference Method, Yee Algorithm.
38. Quantum Theory of Light.
39. Quantum Coherent State of Light.

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