Introduction to microwave integrated circuits: Active and passive components.
Analysis of microstrip lines: variational method, conformal transformation, numerical analysis; losses in microstrip lines; Slot line and Coupled lines; Design of power dividers and combiners, directional couplers, hybrid couplers, filters; Microstrip lines on ferrite and garnet substrates; Isolators and circulators; Lumped elements in MICs; Technology of MICs: Monolithic and hybrid substrates; thin and thick film technologies, computer-aided design.