Problems Solving in Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuit and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering

Presenting a wide range of real-world electromagnetics problems, this one-of-a-kind resource offers professionals and students complete step-by-step solutions to the most critical challenges relating to antenna and microwave circuit design. Serving as a practical standalone reference or as a complement to the text Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuit, and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering, Second Edition by Peter Russer (Artech House, 2006), this unique book helps you solve problems ranging from basic electromagnetics, potentials and waves, and static fields, to waveguides, periodic structures and filters, and numerical electromagnetics.

You find in-depth coverage of the concepts, methods and theorems you need to understand to effectively tackle critical problems in the field. Including numerous graphical illustrations and utilizing the notation of differential forms, the book simplifies mathematical computations in electromagnetic wave theory and offers a deep and intuitive understanding of the behavior of electromagnetic fields. This practical resource is packed with over 1,000 equations.

Table of Contents:

The Calculus of Differential Forms. Basic Electromagnetics. Potentials and Waves. Concepts, Methods and Theorems. Static and Quasistatic Fields. Waves at the Surface of Conducting Media. Transmission Lines. Resonant Circuits and Resonators. Microwave Circuits. Periodic Structures and Filters. Radiation from Dipoles. Antennas. Numerical Electromagnetics.