Electromagnetics in the Analysis and Design of Communication and High-Speed Systems

From the academic year 2005/06 this course will also be available at the National Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland. More details of this are available here.

Simulation is a fundamental activity in the design and assessment of electronic equipment. The diverse range of modelling methods, each with their own characteristics, and the increasing complexity of modern electronic devices make the choice of an appropriate analysis method more challenging than ever before.

The MRes course is aimed at those who need to obtain an understanding and working knowledge of principles and applications of a variety of computational and experimental techniques for the analysis, design and optimisation of modern communications and high-speed devices and systems.

The George Green Institute for Electromagnetic Research (GGIEMR) is one of the leading groups in the world in the area of electromagnetic modelling. The group has a significant breadth of research activities covering a wide frequency range from DC to light. The state of the art MRes course is presented by leading academics from this group at The University of Nottingham together with leading specialists from industry.

For those who also wish to continue with further academic research in this field, the MRes degree can lead, subject to satisfactory performance, to transfer onto a PhD course to be completed within further 2-3 years of full-time study.

COURSE CONTENT

The course has been designed to give a broad overview and an in depth introduction to modelling, simulation and experimental techniques that are currently used in electromagnetics. These include:

• Principles and applications of the most popular numerical time and frequency domain methods, integral equation methods and differential methods.
• Practical applications including the areas of optoelectronics, microwaves, wave propagation, antenna, electromagnetic compatibility and signal integrity.
• Mathematical approaches in CAD.
• Signal Processing techniques.
• Multi scale and multi-resolution techniques.
• Practical skills in experimental RF, EMC and optoelectronics.
• The research project will cover implementation, computation and validation of a selected generic method. Where appropriate, the simulation results will be compared and verified against experimental data.

MODE OF STUDY

The MRes course consists of 3 elements:

• 20 credits of non-assessed generic research training.
  These should be accumulated from any of modules offered by the Graduate School.
• 30 credits of assessed training.
  The compulsory module for this course is Research Techniques in Advanced Electromagnetics (30 credits)
• 130 credits of assessed project based work.

ASSESSMENT

Further Information

For further information contact Dr Ana Vukovic or Laura Sun

The above is available in Chinese as both a webpage and a PDF