Microwave Engineering

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Wiley, Aug 12, 1997 - Technology & Engineering - 736 pages
This second edition emphasizes the fundamental concepts of Maxwell's equations, wave propagation, network analysis and design principles as applied to modern microwave engineering. Applications of microwave engineering are also changing, with increasing emphasis on commercial use of microwave technology for personal communications systems, wireless local area networks, millimeter wave collision avoidance vehicle radars, radio frequency (RF) identification tagging, direct broadcast satellite television, and many other systems related to the information infrastructure.

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Contents

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
1
TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY
56
The Telegrapher Equations Derived
63
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About the author (1997)

David Pozar is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he has worked since 1980. Pozar has written numerous books on the topic of microwave engineering such as Microwave Engineering (1997) and Antenna Design Using Personal Computers (1985). Pozar attended the University of Akron, earning both a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1980. He is active in the IEEE Association and has won several awards from them for outstanding contributions. He has also received an outstanding senior faculty award and a R.W.P. King Best Paper award, among others. An active speaker at trade meetings worldwide, Pozar is also interested in fine woodworking and has created reproductions of antique furniture. He is married and has two children.

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