Microwave Engineering [Hardcover]

Pozar's new edition of Microwave Engineering includes more material on active circuits, noise, nonlinear effects, and wireless systems. Chapters on noise and nonlinear distortion, and active devices have been added along with the coverage of noise and more material on intermodulation distortion and related nonlinear effects. On active devices, there's more updated material on bipolar junction and field effect transistors.

New and updated material on wireless communications systems, including link budget, link margin, digital modulation methods, and bit error rates is also part of the new edition. Other new material includes a section on transients on transmission lines, the theory of power waves, a discussion of higher order modes and frequency effects for microstrip line, and a discussion of how to determine unloaded.

1 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY 1

1.1 Introduction to Microwave Engineering 1

1.2 Maxwell’s Equations 6

1.3 Fields in Media and Boundary Conditions 10

1.4 The Wave Equation and Basic Plane Wave Solutions 15

1.5 General Plane Wave Solutions 20

1.6 Energy and Power 25

1.7 Plane Wave Reflection from a Media Interface 28

1.8 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface 35

1.9 Some Useful Theorems 40

2 TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY 48

2.1 The Lumped-Element Circuit Model for a Transmission Line 48

2.2 Field Analysis of Transmission Lines 51

2.3 The Terminated Lossless Transmission Line 56

2.4 The Smith Chart 63

2.5 The Quarter-Wave Transformer 72

2.6 Generator and Load Mismatches 76

2.7 Lossy Transmission Lines 78

2.8 Transients on Transmission Lines 85