EE 671: Electromagnetic Theory and Applications

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EE 671 Electromagnetic Theory and Applications

• Zhengqing (ZQ) Yun
• Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications (HCAC)

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General Information

• Instructor
• Zhengqing Yun
• HCAC
• Office POST 201B
• Phone 6-0759
• Email zyun_at_hawaii.edu
• Website
• http//www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/zqyun

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General Information

• Textbooks (optional)
• Balanis Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics
• Bertoni Radio Propagation for Modern Wireless
  Systems
• Iskander Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
• Office hours
• By appointment

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General Information

• Grading
• Homework
• Examinations
• Projects

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Contents (tentative)

• Introduction
• Part I. Advanced Electromagnetic (EM) Theory
• Part II. Applications Radio Propagation for
  Wireless Communications

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Part I. Advanced EM Theory

• Maxwell's Equations
• Physical and geometrical interpretations
• Relations with computational EM methods
• FDTD Finite-difference time-domain method
• Boundary Value Problems (BVP)
• Boundary conditions
• Coordinate systems
• Solution methods for BVPs
• Scattering
• Geometrical/Uniform Theory of Diffraction

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Part II. Radio Propagation for Wireless
Communications

• Wireless Communications Systems
• Propagation Models
• Large-scale path loss
• Small-scale fading and multipath
• Challenges for propagation prediction
• Features of modern wireless communications
  systems
• Ray-tracing and applications

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Maxwells Equations
James Clerk Maxwell June 13, 1831 November 5,
1879 Scottish mathematical physicist
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Maxwells Equations
Carl Friedrich Gauss April 30, 1777 February
23, 1855 German mathematician and scientist
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Maxwells Equations
Michael Faraday September 22, 1791 August 25,
1867 English chemist and physicist
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Maxwells Equations
André-Marie Ampère January 20, 1775 June 10,
1836 French physicist
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Maxwells Equations
George Gabriel Stokes August 13, 1819 February
1, 1903 Irish mathematician and physicist
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Maxwells Equations
Faraday
Ampere
Gauss
Source q, ?, J
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Divergence, Curl, and
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Electromagnetic Waves
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Electromagnetic Waves
Wave equations
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Electromagnetic Waves
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Plane EM Waves (Harmonic)
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Plane EM Waves
E-field is perpendicular to the direction of
propagation
H-field is perpendicular to the direction of
propagation