Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications [Hardcover]

Jia-Shen G. Hong (Author), M. J. Lancaster (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471388777 | ISBN-13: 978-0471388777 | Publication Date: June 22, 2001 | Edition: 1

Advanced, specialized coverage of microstrip filter design

Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications is the only professional reference focusing solely on microstrip filters. It offers a unique and comprehensive treatment of filters based on the microstrip structure and includes full design methodologies that are also applicable to waveguide and other transmission line filters.

The authors include coverage of new configurations with advanced filtering characteristics, new design techniques, and methods for filter miniaturization. The book utilizes numerous design examples to illustrate and emphasize computer analysis and synthesis while also discussing the applications of commercially available software. Other highlights include:

• Lowpass and bandpass filters
• Highpass and bandstop filters
• Full-wave electromagnetic simulation
• Advanced materials and technologies
• Coupled resonator circuits
• Computer-aided design for low-cost/high-volume production
• Compact filters and filter miniaturization

Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications is not only a valuable design resource for practitioners, but also a handy reference for students and researchers in microwave engineering.

Editorial Reviews

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"...Hong...and Lancaster...describe radio frequency/microwave filters based on the microstrip structure, providing a link to applications of computer-aided design tool and advanced materials and technologies." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001)

"...this book is the best I've seen so far.... With its unique organization and presentation, the book will become an invaluable reference on microstrip filter design...worth having on your bookshelf." (IEEE Microwave Magazine, September 2002)

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Advanced, specialized coverage of microstrip filter design

Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications is the only professional reference focusing solely on microstrip filters. It offers a unique and comprehensive treatment of filters based on the microstrip structure and includes full design methodologies that are also applicable to waveguide and other transmission line filters.

The authors include coverage of new configurations with advanced filtering characteristics, new design techniques, and methods for filter miniaturization. The book utilizes numerous design examples to illustrate and emphasize computer analysis and synthesis while also discussing the applications of commercially available software. Other highlights include:
* Lowpass and bandpass filters
* Highpass and bandstop filters
* Full-wave electromagnetic simulation
* Advanced materials and technologies
* Coupled resonator circuits
* Computer-aided design for low-cost/high-volume production
* Compact filters and filter miniaturization

Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications is not only a valuable design resource for practitioners, but also a handy reference for students and researchers in microwave engineering.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 488 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (June 22, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471388777
• ISBN-13: 978-0471388777
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,937,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Smoke and Mirrors, February 21, 2006

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Robert B. Gillette "RF Engineer" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications (Hardcover)

The authors start out with good intentions however they do not see them through to completion. For instance, the section in chapter 5 on hairpin filters refers you to parameter extraction techniques in chapter 8. Reading through chapter 8, nothing explicity refers you back to chapter 5. You are left on your own to figure out what in chapter 8 applies to chapter 5. Likewise with the section in chapter 5 regarding parallel coupled line filters. They refer you back to chapter 4, but chapter 4 does not explicity refer you back to chapter 5. The examples are incomplete at best and criminal at worst. The examples start out with adequate detail but then the usual academia smoke and mirrors trick is performed and voila you have the solution. Again the sections on hairpin and parallel coupled line filters (p130 and p128) show this.

In summary this book is not worth your time or money.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, May 29, 2004

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This review is from: Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications (Hardcover)

Obviously there aren't too many books on microwave filters. I can think of only two or three. So, this book is by default one of the top three. Anyways. Much of basic network theory in this book can be found in "Microwave Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling Structures". Also I suggest Pozar's "Microwave Engineering" for a good intro into the low pass-band pass filter conversions and look up tables. Also, many of the paragraphs are complete copy's of the author's (Hong and Lancaster) publications. So you really don't need 90% of this book. I did find interest in the book's chapter on coupling. Most of this chapter was good. The explanations in this chapter have helped me understand more modern filter design. Yet, I am still left with a few questions regarding coupling. The authors don't seem to have a real intuitive explanation about negative coupling vs. positive coupling. For example, they obtain the experimental results for a specific filter and say that one of the couplings (the electric) is negative because it "cancels out" the "positive" magnetic coupling. The authors just quickly say that it's due to the phase of the copuling, which leaves me with zero intuitive feeling. Then they use this result in later chapters for more advanced (multi-coupling filter networks) when they need a negative coupling.... So I looked at Bahl's "RF and Microwave Coupled-Line Circuits" but didn't find any explanation or anything about negative coupling. Anyways, my point is there is still much room for BETTER microwave filter textbook. this stuff isn't hard but we need a good TEACHER (like a B. P. Lathi from the communications world)to really write a good microwave filter book that is intuitivly satisfying and doesn't skip derivations. Oh, let me also say that Collins Fundamentals of Microwave Engineering book does a good job when it comes to explaining the conversion of a network with lumped elements to one with only K or J inverters. Hong and Lancaster's book only gives the results- NOT GOOD IN MY OPINION! But I do give this book 4 stars because it does help you understand microwave filters better and it is only one of a few books on this topic.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not for beginners, September 2, 2007

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This review is from: Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications (Hardcover)

The first part of the book presents compact, summarized mathematical descriptions of filters in general. This is intended as a review for readers already skilled in filter design. The second part of the book presents design equations for some common microstrip filters and one example each with simulated results. The last part of the book presents more detailed descriptions of recent research into topologies and materials. Many of these topologies are given in drawing form with simulated results and no mathematical description of how to design one for yourself.