The 4th edition of this classic text provides a thorough coverage of RF and microwave engineering concepts, starting from fundamental principles of electrical engineering, with applications to microwave circuits and devices of practical importance. Coverage includes microwave network analysis, impedance matching, directional couplers and hybrids, microwave filters, ferrite devices, noise, nonlinear effects, and the design of microwave oscillators, amplifiers, and mixers. Material on microwave and RF systems includes wireless communications, radar, radiometry, and radiation hazards. A large number of examples and end-of-chapter problems test the reader's understanding of the material. The 4th edition includes new and updated material on systems, noise, active devices and circuits, power waves, transients, RF CMOS circuits, and more.

This book offers a quantitative and design-oriented presentation of the analog RF aspects of modern wireless telecommunications and data transmission systems from the antenna to the baseband level. It takes an integrated approach to topics such as antennas and proagation, microwave systems and circuits and communication systems.

Complete with an up-to-date tutorial overview of the field and substantial new, introductory material for each topic, MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS combines in one source a selection of today's most significant and useful articles on microstrip and antenna design. Eminent experts David M. Pozar and Daniel H. Schaubert guide you through basic microstrip antenna elements and feeding, dual and circularity polarized designs, modeling techniques for microstrip antenna elements, techniques for improving element bandwidth, microstrip antenna array design, analysis of arrays and mutual coupling, and a selection of other special topics. A convenient source of antenna designs, theoretical and model techniques, and novel solutions to practical design problems, this volume will be essential reading for working antenna design engineers and researchers and a great supplement for students and researchers who have an interest in the subject.