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Microwave Engineering

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I was first introduced to this book through my professor. After reading this book I had a very good understanding of the material: wave guides, networks, S-parameters, filters, impedence matching, and transmission lines. This book does it all. It is an excellent introductory to intermediate book on Microwave engineering. You can understand the book entirely without getting lost in theory. Pozar does a good job at not confusing the reader, and it provides some real world examples that help the user relate. I myself go to GA Tech, and I recommend any electrical engineering student who is interested in electromagnetics or RF engineering to buy this book. If only because the GA Tech Library only has one copy and it is always checked out.

I've had to search numerous large University libraries for a copy of this book, and all copies seem to be perpetually checked out (some for months at a time). It isn't much of a surprise considering this is an excellent primer for microwave engineering and RF circuit design. The derivations are well laid out and the majority of each chapter's formulas are displayed in a nice tabular format every few pages.

It's a must have for any elec student (or physicist) that's interested in microwave engineering, RF circuit design and electromagnetic waves.

This text make you wish human clonation could be performed on mr Pozar to clarify many subjects in eletronics-electromagnetics.The author makes a very good job of explaning both the theory and the applications in the microwave engineering area.His explanations are very clear and he takes always the most straightforward path for reaching the final formula.Only (very relative) weakness is the lack of a satisfyng theory about microstrip impedance.I think this book is a must for any newcomer to the microwave field .5 stars!

This is one of those books that takes you to the limit. It teaches you all the important concepts and gradually expand on them untill you get to today's technological advances. It goes over electromagnetic theory, transmission line theroy, waveguides, microwave network analysis,microwave filters, resonators, couplers, amplifiers, oscillators, and microwave systems. It's a MUST BUY... Professor Pozar, thank you for this wonderful book, I use it at work all the time

This is a good microwave engineering book in general. It does not only provide derivations and equations, but also many real applications examples from Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) to different microwave cables (type N, SMA, BNC, etc.) And there are great sections on how to design microstrip components (directional couplers, hybrid combiner/splitter.)

In the process of obtaining a Ph.D. the hard way (3 separate schools for BSME, MSEE, Ph.D.) as well as tackling a half dozen widely diverse technology areas in my professional life, I have read a LOT of text books. Pozar is the gold standard of reference texts. What is Microwave Engineering? Read Pozar. What does this thingy do? Read Pozar. What's the formula for converting from ABCD to admittance matrices? Read Pozar. I suppose by now it's getting a bit out of date. So much more is happening at the deep sub-wavelength chip level that 'Microwave Engineering' (IE, worrying about wavelength) is less important than it used to be. Still, there will always be interconnects, and even when wavelength isn't a factor, the analysis techniques presented are a powerful and rigorous way of thinking that many people seem to have trouble mastering. Until I read Pozar, I was one of them.

It covers fully the following chapters:

1)Insights to Maxwell equations

2)Transmission lines, Smith

3)Waveguides, Microstrips

4)Network theory

5)Resonators and filters

the rest are not of that great quality.

This book made me to love Microwave Telecommunications.Its not just the context.By reading it you understand why a book can never be replaced by a monitor!

Overall, I found Pozar's book to be a good handbook on pracical applications of microwave engineering. However, as one who has not been a design engineer in years, the long drawn out mathematical proofs of the theories behind the applications made for a sometimes tedious read. This would have been a great text for me right out of college, but in my current position I don't need to understand the theory to the depth that Pozar often goes into. The purists and hardcore design guys might say I've devolved into a mathematical whimp, but for my needs I like overviews.

As a working engineer with high power RF for nearly 20 years, I found David Pozar's book to be one of the best references to microwave engineering that is available. There are many professional books available which cover the same topics, but they lack a sufficient mathematical electricity & magnetism explanation in comparison. One of the things I found is that I had to refresh myself on the math, which is a good thing, in order to complete the problems at end of every chapter. I recently met a microwave communications engineer who had a class taught by David Pozar and he said it was difficult since Pozar is demanding, but enjoyed the class. Well, this attitude is reflected in this book by treating most topics very quantitatively.

I would highly recommend Microwave Engineering to all mobile communications, RF, radar systems and electronic warfare engineers. And of course to all graduate electrical engineering students.

With this book, I also recommend as a complement RF Design Guide: Systems, Circuits, and Equations

The only negative I can say is about cost, but there are several used sources available and for this type of reference the new cost can be justified if you work in this field.

A friend showed me a copy of this book and after reviewing several chapteres I order my own copy. With so many books available it is hard to find an author who's information and explanation is clear, correct and valuable when working with transmission lines and antennas. This book covers the theory then breaks it down from complicated math models into simplified models for practical use. There are plentiful examples to follow or make clear the ideas. It is an excellent book to further onces knowledge of printed circuit board design or for applications which require the detailed anaylsis.