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Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics

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I worked with this book when i studied microwaves an electromangnetic fields, i must say the author goes in a very deep analysis on each topic with a clear and precise lenguage very suitable for a 4 year, or graduated, student . The part of resonators talking about the superior modes of transmition is magnificent. also the interfaces between diferent media.

In this book Balanis goes into great detail covering the solutions of the wave equation for several important boundary-valued EM problems in different coordinate systems. One of the other reviewers complains of the wordiness in this book and how Balanis' solves both the TE and TM problems in every case. I do not see the faults here as these are fundamental concepts that all graduate level electromagnetics students need to become familiar with. Wordiness, especially to someone unfamiliar with many of the more complex topics in electromagnetics, is only beneficial.

Later in the book Balanis includes very basic discussions on the Method of Moments, which are pretty much cut-and-paste from his antenna book. As there are other resources dealing specifically with the MoM, there is really no reason to include it here. Otherwise, a timeless reference that refer to over and over again.

This is a good introduction to EM for Graduate Students. Having been educated with the physics approach of Jackson this is an excellent EE aproach to electromagnetics (i.e. practical). The best recommendation I can give is that I actually own a copy.

I have many E&M texts primarily because there are so many nuances to learn and I find it important to have different points of view. However, the Balanis text does something the others doesnt. It covers a great deal of ground and puts the multitude of equations into a 'BOX' for easy reference. And all these equations are derived in a very straight forward fashion so a person can remember them and understand their basis. Most texts have the equations all over the place and when trying to solve problems you wonder where to look next. Not so with Balanis. In fact, I have definitely been able to solve E&M problems now after reading his book then I could do before it. If E&M is your field this text is a must.

This book is an excellent electromagnetics text. I use it in conjunction with Kraus, and the two together allow you to work almost any problem. -Tom McIntire

I used this book during Electromagnetics I and II. It is very useful specially for topics concerning electromagnetic waves. The mathematical approach is very good and justifies most of the basic Electromagnetic concepts.

I am a graduate student at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF) and this book is used on the following subjects: Electromagnetics III and as an introduction of Microwaves in the course of Telecommunications Engineering. All the students here, including myself, think that this book is excellent. If you have a good background on basic electromagnetics, calculus (including complex analysys), and love science, this book is a must-have.

This is an extraordinary book to learn advanced electromagnetics from.Mr Balanis is Greek and it seems to me he uses the same method Socrates invented more than 2000 years ago which is the following as reported by Plato:truth (in this case electromagnetic theory)is present in everyone of us,what is left to the wise educator (teaching engineer)is to make everyone conscious of this inner truth using the most simple method of reducing the whole to its most elementary pieces and then using basic logic for reassemble it in a conscious way.This is exactly Mr Balanis winning strategy:he begins from the most basical things in electromagnetic theory like wave equations ,Poynting vectors and potential theory and then progresses in the clearest possible way to very advanced topics like scattering theory ,integral methods,Green functionts etc.etc.What is wonderful is that you are able to grasp the use of very advanced mathematical objects like special functions (Bessel,Hankel etc.etc.)with a reasonable effort(in many other text of comparable level they suppose you know more or less everything of this stuff!).In the end you are able to actually develop your analytical models for the analysis of real problems.The only improvement of this semi-perfect book would be to explain more of the included Fortran code.I give this book 5 stars! Grazie Mr Balanis!

This book is one of the best graduate EM books around. This book is a sort of transition from undergraduate EM to advanced EM (eg: Van Bladel,Weng Cho Chew).
All the chapters are lovely. Hardly any typos. Superb mathematical clarity. You can probably solve all the end of chapter problems, if your math background is fine.
Balanis is a great author. His other book : Antenna theory is the BEST antenna book.

This textbook was interesting for me because some part of this book was used
as a basic analysis procedure for my undergraduate project " Partially
filled rectangular waveguide phase-shifter" without this book. It is impossible for me to design waveguide phase shifter. Compared to original topic from Nathan Marcuvitz textbook "Waveguide Handbook", It is excellent as a starting point.