RF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING QUESTION BANK - 2 PART A 1. What is Gunn effect? 2. What is tunnelling? 3.

. Name the different types of lithography. 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of parametric amplifier? 5. State transferred Electron devices. 6. What do the acronyms IMPATT and TRAPATT stands for? 7. Mention the basic materials for Microwave Integrated circuits. 8. Distinguish between hybrid and monolithic MICs. 9. List out the high frequency limitations of bipolar devices. 10. Distinguish between ATDs and TEDs. 11. Give the major disadvantage of IMPATT diode. 12. Give the application of IMPATT diode. 13. Why the conventional tubes like triode cannot generate microwave power? 14. Distinguish between Tunnel diode and Normal p-n diode. 15. Define pinch off. 16. What is step recovery diode? 17. What is varactor diode? 18. A silicon JFET has the following parameters; Channel height=0.1m, electron concentration is 8 x 1017 cm-3 and r = 11.80 .Find Vp 19. A typical Gunn diode has the following specification; Operating frequency =10GHz,device length is 75m,voltage pulse amplified=25V .Determine the threshold electric field.

20. Which two phase angles make the voltage and current in Avalanche transit time devices to be out of phase by 180? 21. An IMPATT diode has a drift length of 2m.Determine the operating frequency of IMPATT diode with the drift velocity of Si is 107 cm/s. 22. What is parametric amplifier? 23. Define capacitive and inductive reactance. 24. Mention any two application of Parametric Amplifier. 25. What is avalanche multiplication? PART B 1. Explain the operation of Tunnel diode. 2. Derive Manely Rowe power relations and hence explain the parametric up and down converter. 3. Write short notes on: Four types of material used in MMIC fabrication. 4. Write short notes on: Ridely Watkins Hilsum Two valley model theory 5. Discuss the following: Power frequency Limitation of Bipolar Transistor. 6. What are the modes of operation that results in microwave oscillations in a Gunn diode? Explain it. 7. Explain the working principle of TRAPATT. 8. Explain the construction and Dc operating principle of IMPATT diode. 9. Draw the suitable diagrams and explain the fabrication process of Monolithic microwave integrated circuits. Give examples for fabrication. 10. Explain the operation of BJT and JFET. 11. Explain the operation of varactor diode and step recovery diode. 12. Explain the principle of operation of parametric amplifier.