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Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuit, and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering
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Peter Russer
Artech House, Hardcover, Published October 2003, ISBN 1580535321
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If you’re looking for a clear, comprehensive overview of basic electromagnetics principles and applications to antenna and microwave circuit design for communications, this authoritative book is your best choice. Including concise explanations of all required mathematical concepts needed to fully comprehend the material, the book is your complete resource for understanding electromagnetics in current, emerging and future broadband communication systems, as well as high-speed analogue and digital electronic circuits and systems.

From electromagnetic wave propagation, electromagnetic interference, and transmission lines and waveguides, to linear multiports, microwave circuits and antennas, you get expert guidance in a wide range of key areas to help you solve design problems in communications engineering. Supported with over 200 illustrations and 900 equations, there is no other book currently available that explains electromagnetics in such an easy-to-understand manner.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Basic Electromagnetics - The Electromagnetic Field Concept. Field Intensities. Current and Flux Densities. The Charge Density. The Maxwell Puzzle. The Integral Form of Maxwell’s Equations. The Plane Electromagnetic Wave. The Wave Equation. The Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves. The Kirchhoff Laws. The Differential Form of Maxwell’s Equations. Fields in Curved Coordinate Systems.  Differential Forms for Curved Coordinate Systems. Spherical Waves. Cylindrical Waves. Boundary Conditions.

Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields - Frequency Domain Representation of Electromagnetic Fields. Fourier Analysis and Synthesis. Maxwell’s Equations in Frequency Domain.

Concepts, Methods and Theorems - The Poynting’s Theorem. The Tellegen’s Theorem. The Electromagnetic Potentials. The Reciprocity Theorem. The Principle of Duality. Sources of the Electromagnetic Field. The Huygen’s Principle. The Helmholtz Equation. TM and TE Waves.

Static and Stationary Fields - Capacitance and Inductance. Capacitive and Inductive Coupling of Conductors. Modeling of Electromagnetic Coupling in Circuits.

Surface Waves-Transverse Magnetic Surface Waves. Surface Currents in Conductors. The Skin Effect. Induced Surface Currents.

Transmission Lines and Waveguides - Phase and Group Velocity. Evaluation of the Field Components. Transverse Electromagnetic Waveguides. Rectangular Waveguides. Circular Waveguides. Planar Waveguides. Strip Lines. Microstrip Lines. Coplanar Lines. Slot Lines. Dielectric Waveguides and Optical Fibers.

The Transmission Line Equations - Generalized Voltages and Currents. Solution of the Transmission Line Equations. Wave Amplitudes. Reflection Coefficient and Smith Diagram.

Resonant Circuits and Resonators - The Linear Passive One-port. Resonant Circuits. The Transmission Line Resonator. Cavity Resonators. Coupling of Resonant Circuits and Resonators.

Microwave Circuits - Linear Multiports. Source Free Linear Multiports. The Matrix Representations of Multiports. Power Properties of Linear Source-Free Multiports. Reciprocal Multiports.  Symmetry Properties of Waveguide Junctions. The S Matrix Representation of Circuits with General Topology.

Antennas - Green’s Function. The Hertz Dipole. Linear Antennas. The Loop Antenna. Receiving Antennas. Antenna Gain and Antenna Area. Antenna Arrays. Aperture Antennas. Broadband Antennas. Planar Antennas. Conformal Antennas.

Computer Aided Design of Microwave Circuits and Antennas - Overview over Numerical Methods for EM Modeling. CAD Tools for Modeling of Microwave Circuits and Antennas.

About the Author

Peter Russer is a Professor and Head of the Institute for High Frequency Engineering at Technische Universität München in Germany. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. techn. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology.




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