Customer Reviews

CAD of Microstrip Antennas for Wireless Applications (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library)

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The author truly has mastered my equations and displays practical application of them to real world situations. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down! Field calculations and microstrip design can sometimes be a little dry, but the author makes it not only interesting, but fun as well. I would like to see him branch out into solving world peace and time travel next, as he seems well equipped to tackle those subjects after this etraordinary work. I wish I could give 6 stars.

"Oh, I'm exhausted. I've been on this street a thousand times. It's never looked so strange. The faces...so cold. In the distance a child is crying...fatherless...a bastard child, perhaps. My back aches, my heart aches, but my eyes...my eyes are resilient! Thank God I put on my reading glasses and started my CAD of Microstrip Antennas for Wireless Applications!....To think, I wasn't going to take this out of the lab..but I knew deep down inside that the toll road of denial is a long and dangerous one. The price? My soul."

As a designer of planar antennae I found this book to be of very little use. Designing anything more complex than a directly fed patch radiator with this book in hand, such as an EMC patch radiator or a slot-coupled one, amounts to:

1) getting very approximate numbers to say the least, running the little computer program which is provided with the book, or using the formulae from the latter,

2) patiently sliding substrate layers on top of each other while keeping a hopeful eye on the network analyser,

3) performing a lot of scalpel work; fine for GPS, a nightmare at X-band or above...

I have used decent models which have been published elsewhere in the technical litterature, for designing the aforementioned radiators, with good results. In fact Artech House, the original publisher do not even advertise this book any more!

As I was sitting in my cage the other night, I felt a magnetic attraction to this book. I particularly enjoyed how the fields were interweaved throughout the text. Near fields, far fields, clover fields, corn fields. This one has it all!