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Electromagnetics Presentations & Lectures
This page is a curated collection of high-quality presentations, lecture slides, recorded lectures, and downloadable course material connecting electromagnetic theory to engineering and scientific applications.
The emphasis is on authoritative university, national-laboratory, NASA, CERN, and research-institution material rather than generic slide-sharing websites.
1. Electromagnetics and applications — MIT
MIT 6.013: Electromagnetics and Applications
Complete lecture-note collection — MIT OpenCourseWare
Topics include:
- Maxwell equations and boundary conditions
- polarization, conduction, and magnetization
- plane waves and Poynting theorem
- transmission lines and Smith charts
- waveguides
- electromagnetic forces
- radiation
- dipoles and arrays
- receiving antennas
- wireless and optical communications
Complete Electromagnetics and Applications course notes
Selected MIT application lectures
- Waveguides — TE/TM modes, cutoff and boundary conditions.
- Antennas and radiation — radiation and antenna fundamentals.
- Common antennas and applications — practical antenna types and applications.
- Receiving antennas — effective aperture, induced voltage and reception.
- Aperture antennas — aperture radiation and diffraction.
2. Phased arrays and AESA
MIT Lincoln Laboratory — Adaptive Antennas and Phased Arrays
16-lecture phased-array course
The course covers adaptive antennas and phased arrays, connecting array theory with practical hardware and experiments. See also the AESA page.
Phased radar
MIT Physics — Phased Radar lecture
A physical presentation of interference and phased-array concepts.
3. Radar systems
MIT Lincoln Laboratory — Introduction to Radar Systems
Covers radar-system concepts and technologies spanning antennas, propagation, scattering, receivers and signal processing.
4. Accelerator electromagnetics
CERN Accelerator School — Electromagnetic Theory
Electromagnetic Theory I — CERN
Introduces fields, electrical force, moving charges and Maxwell equations in the context of accelerator physics.
CERN Accelerator School — introductory accelerator material
CAS course with downloadable presentations
The collection includes presentations on electromagnetic theory, accelerator magnets, RF systems, particle sources, beam instrumentation, power converters, kickers and septa, cryogenics, and beam dynamics.
5. Magnets and permanent magnets
CERN — Normal-Conducting and Permanent Magnets
2026 presentation, PPTX/PDF and recording
Covers iron-dominated electromagnets, permanent-magnet materials, accelerator-magnet design and comparison of electromagnetic and permanent-magnet technologies. See the Halbach-array discussion.
CERN — Permanent Magnets
Includes magnetization, remanence, coercivity, demagnetizing fields, NdFeB, SmCo, Halbach magnets, permanent-magnet accelerator structures and trimming techniques.
CERN — Specialized Magnet School
CERN Accelerator School: Magnets
Includes presentations on Maxwell equations for magnets, magnetic materials, magnet types and performance, beam optics and numerical field computation.
6. RF systems in particle accelerators
CERN Accelerator School introductory presentations
The course includes material on RF systems, electromagnetic theory, magnets, beam instrumentation and superconducting magnets.
7. Spacecraft antennas
NASA — Spacecraft Antennas
NASA Technical Reports Server presentation/report
Discusses spacecraft antenna selection and design, including polarization, multiple beams, reflector feeds, frequency reuse, inter-beam isolation, antenna efficiency, beam-forming networks, and spacecraft constraints.
See also Spacecraft & Satellite EM Simulation.
8. MRI and biomedical electromagnetics
NYU — MRI Instrumentation
MRI instrumentation presentation
Covers transmit/receive RF coils, Larmor-frequency tuning, RF transmitters, receivers and safety.
Stanford — MRI lecture collection
Stanford MRI lecture notes and recorded lectures
Includes the main $B_0$ field, Bloch equations, RF $B_1$ pulses, rotating-frame physics, magnetic-field gradients, slice selection, and MRI signal formation.
UC San Diego — MRI instrumentation
MRI instrumentation and RF excitation slides
Shows the static magnet, gradient coils, RF coil, spin excitation and instrumentation architecture.
9. Microwave engineering
MIT transmission lines and waveguides
The MIT Electromagnetics and Applications lecture collection contains presentations on TEM transmission lines, reflection coefficient, VSWR, quarter-wave transformers, transient waves, rectangular waveguides, dielectric waveguides and resonators.
10. Antennas and wireless links
The MIT 6.013 Spring 2009 lecture collection includes material on antenna gain, effective aperture, RF links, Hertzian dipoles, near and far fields, receiving antennas, aperture antennas, diffraction and optical communications.
Link maintenance: External lecture collections can move over time. Preference is given here to stable institutional repositories such as MIT OpenCourseWare, CERN, NASA, Stanford, NYU and UC San Diego.