Modern Microwave Engineering Handbook: A Practical Guide to RF Circuits, Wave Propagation, S-Parameters, Filters, Amplifiers, Antennas, and Measurement - Softcover

Orveld, Matthias G.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798187893065

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A microwave circuit can look correct on paper, perform perfectly in simulation, and still fail when it is built and measured.

At high frequencies, a trace is no longer just a connection. Its length, geometry, substrate, connector, ground path, enclosure, nearby structures, and measurement reference plane can change the result. Reflections increase, phase shifts become significant, losses appear, unwanted coupling develops, and instrument readings may include more of the test fixture than the device itself.

For students and working engineers, this creates a difficult problem: microwave concepts are often taught as separate equations, while real hardware requires those equations to be understood together. Knowing a formula for wavelength, impedance, gain, or reflection is not enough when you must decide why an amplifier is unstable, why a filter shifted frequency, why an antenna will not match, or why measured results disagree with simulation.

Modern Microwave Engineering Handbook provides a structured path from electromagnetic fundamentals to practical design, measurement, troubleshooting, and system verification. It explains not only how to perform calculations, but also how to recognise the assumptions behind them, connect them to physical structures, and interpret what happens when theory meets real hardware.

Inside, readers will learn how to:

• relate frequency, wavelength, phase, impedance, power, reflection, return loss, and standing waves;
• analyse transmission lines, matching networks, distributed structures, and multiport circuits;
• understand waveguides, cavities, resonators, planar circuits, passive networks, and microwave filters;
• evaluate amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, frequency conversion, antennas, and arrays;
• interpret scattering data, gain, loss, noise, compression, linearity, bandwidth, stability, and power handling;
• plan calibration, fixtures, reference planes, de1-embedding, uncertainty, and repeatable measurements;
• identify common causes of simulation-to-hardware disagreement;
• apply system-level methods to wireless links, radar, sensing, troubleshooting, reliability, and production verification.

Worked examples, practice problems, technical diagrams, design checklists, troubleshooting maps, worksheets, appendices, quick-reference material, a glossary, and an index support both progressive study and day-to-day engineering work.

This handbook is written for engineering students, technicians, laboratory personnel, circuit and antenna designers, test engineers, educators, and systems professionals who are tired of treating microwave topics as disconnected formulas and need a more practical understanding of how high-frequency systems are designed, measured, and verified.

Stop relying on isolated calculations that do not explain what happens in real hardware. Buy this handbook, To your technical library and start developing the practical analysis, measurement discipline, and troubleshooting judgement needed to approach microwave circuits and systems with greater confidence.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798187893065
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444
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