Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuit and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering

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Artech House, 2003 - Science - 424 pages
A clear, comprehensive overview of basic electromagnetics principles and applications to antenna and microwave circuit design for communications. Including concise explanations of all required mathematical concepts needed to fully comprehend the material, the book is a 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. 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, the book explains electromagnetics in an easy-to-understand manner.

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Contents

Basic Electromagnetics
9
Potentials and Waves
57
Concepts Methods and Theorems
71
5
83
Static and Quasistatic Fields
89
1
109
4
126
The Transmission Line Equations
195
Antennas
265
Numerical Electromagnetics
325
Appendix A Vectors and Differential Forms
351
Appendix B Special Functions
381
Linear Algebra
395
Fourier Series and Fourier Transform
401
List of Symbols
409
About the Author
415

Resonant Circuits and Resonators
213
Microwave Circuits
237

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About the author (2003)

Peter Russer received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. techn. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology. He 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.