Modern wireless communications hardware is underpinned by RF and microwave design techniques. This insightful book contains a wealth of circuit layouts, design tips, and practical measurement techniques for building and testing practical gigahertz systems. The book covers everything you need to know to design, build, and test a high-frequency circuit. Microstrip components are discussed, including tricks for extracting good performance from cheap materials. Connectors and cables are also described, as are discrete passive components, antennas, low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, and frequency synthesizers. Practical measurement techniques are presented in detail, including the use of network analyzers, sampling oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and noise figure meters. Throughout the focus is practical, and many worked examples and design projects are included. There is also a CD-ROM that contains a variety of design and analysis programs. The book is packed with indispensable information for students taking courses on RF or microwave circuits and for practicing engineers.
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"Planar Microwave Engineering is a massive, well-written book. It contains - contrary to many other RF books - a reasonable mixture of analytical equations and practical circuits suitable for rapid laboratory experiments and classes...it could well become the book of microwave engineering...Professor Lee's very friendly style and the high publishing standards make reading and using this text pleasant. As such Planar Microwave Engineering is suitable for everyday engineering use and for advanced university classes."
Pekka Eskelinen, IEEE AES Magazine
"[Five stars] This is an excellent book written in a light, clear manner by a knowledgeable and experienced engineer. References are annotated on each page and [this] has a major advantage in making the text directly readable while simultaneously underlining the relevance of the substance of the text...the comprehensive approach recommends itself to both student and professional engineers looking for a primer in this area."
Paul O'Leary, IEE Communications Engineer
"Finally, I can recommend a book to those wishing to learn about microwave and RF engineering. Professor Tom Lee's Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurement, and Circuits is a comprehensive and readable treatment of RF and microwave engineering. The 23 chapters of the book cover everything from the history of radio to using probes. Also included with the book is a CD with programs ranging from simulators, such as Puff, LTSprice, Sonnet, EZNEC, and Eagle, to tools such as AppCAD, PLL design, and Smith Chart manipulation...I highly recommend taking a look at Planar Microwave Engineering; it will be well worth your time."
IEEE Microwave Magazine
"... a fantastic CD-ROM ... that is full of all sorts of useful toys to help engineers design their circuits, both microwave and lower frequencies ... well written, printed and clear ... This book answers all your practical questions (or wakes you up to some you did not know existed!) in this complex field. Most highly recommended for all working in it."
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Pekka Eskelinen, IEEE AES Magazine
"[Five stars] This is an excellent book written in a light, clear manner by a knowledgeable and experienced engineer. References are annotated on each page and [this] has a major advantage in making the text directly readable while simultaneously underlining the relevance of the substance of the text...the comprehensive approach recommends itself to both student and professional engineers looking for a primer in this area."
Paul O'Leary, IEE Communications Engineer
"Finally, I can recommend a book to those wishing to learn about microwave and RF engineering. Professor Tom Lee's Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurement, and Circuits is a comprehensive and readable treatment of RF and microwave engineering. The 23 chapters of the book cover everything from the history of radio to using probes. Also included with the book is a CD with programs ranging from simulators, such as Puff, LTSprice, Sonnet, EZNEC, and Eagle, to tools such as AppCAD, PLL design, and Smith Chart manipulation...I highly recommend taking a look at Planar Microwave Engineering; it will be well worth your time."
IEEE Microwave Magazine
"... a fantastic CD-ROM ... that is full of all sorts of useful toys to help engineers design their circuits, both microwave and lower frequencies ... well written, printed and clear ... This book answers all your practical questions (or wakes you up to some you did not know existed!) in this complex field. Most highly recommended for all working in it."
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This book covers everything you need to know to design, build, and test a high-frequency circuit. Microstrip components are discussed, including tricks for extracting good performance from cheap materials. Connectors and cables are also described, as are discrete passive components, antennas, low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, and frequency synthesizers. Practical measurement techniques are presented in detail, including the use of network analyzers, sampling oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and noise figure meters. A CD-ROM that contains a variety of design and analysis programs is included.
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Don't be deceived by the image on the cover !,
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This review is from: Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurement, and Circuits (Hardcover)
With the photo of the IC die on the cover and the word Planer in the title I was concerned this would be focused on monolithic integrated circuits but it is not. Excellent coverage of the topic in a light writing style that does not avoid the technical details. A great piece of work Mr Lee.
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Quirky, insightful, historical, very readable...,
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You have to like a book that is readable (almost conversational), gives historical insight (how 50&75ohm coax became the "standard"), at times is humorous ("But wait, 30 ohms(that gives optimal power handling) does not equal 50, even for relatively large values of 30.") but does not shy away from the some more advanced but interesting (at least to me) derivations of things like estimating fringing capacitance by use of a variational method. This is an excellent book to have fun with and read for insight as a first introduction to some RF topic or to gain further insight and perspective once you have some mastery of some topic, but the level is somewhat uneven, so that for many topics you may wind up having to use a more traditional, dry standard text like Ramo's Fields and Waves if you seriously need to design something. However, this is a great text in the sense that it is unique and so well-written and interesting that if it is around your desk, you will find yourself thumbing through it when you get bored of a task at the office just to learn something new to break up the day.
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Excellent Book,
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So far I've enjoyed this book. I'm a grad student taking a microwave engineering course, this was an additional book recommended by the instructor. I found that there is far more discussion in this book and more steps taken for deriving forumlae, making for an easier to read and interesting book.
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Many histories of microwave technology begin with James Clerk Maxwell and his equations, and for excellent reasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lumped implementations, lumped bandpass filter, drain modulation, lumped prototype, loop transmission magnitude, bridging capacitance, snap diodes, immittance inverters, sequential phase detectors, normalized element values, available output noise power, test voltage source, polar feedback, series base resistance, microstrip form, noise figure meter, reflectance magnitude, lumped filters, inset feed, lumped lines, shunt peaking, cascaded noise figure, input phase difference, noise figure measurement, maximal flatness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bell Labs, Solid-State Circuits, Second World War, Monte Carlo, Cambridge University Press, United States, Artech House, Rad Lab, Substituting Eqn, American Radio Relay League, Radiation Laboratory, Sonnet Lite, Bell System Tech, Digest of Technical Papers, Electron Devices, Englewood Cliffs, First World War, Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Rayleigh, Princeton University Press, Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Agilent Technologies, Army Signal Corps, Combining Eqns New!
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Many histories of microwave technology begin with James Clerk Maxwell and his equations, and for excellent reasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lumped implementations, lumped bandpass filter, drain modulation, lumped prototype, loop transmission magnitude, bridging capacitance, snap diodes, immittance inverters, sequential phase detectors, normalized element values, available output noise power, test voltage source, polar feedback, series base resistance, microstrip form, noise figure meter, reflectance magnitude, lumped filters, inset feed, lumped lines, shunt peaking, cascaded noise figure, input phase difference, noise figure measurement, maximal flatness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bell Labs, Solid-State Circuits, Second World War, Monte Carlo, Cambridge University Press, United States, Artech House, Rad Lab, Substituting Eqn, American Radio Relay League, Radiation Laboratory, Sonnet Lite, Bell System Tech, Digest of Technical Papers, Electron Devices, Englewood Cliffs, First World War, Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Rayleigh, Princeton University Press, Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Agilent Technologies, Army Signal Corps, Combining Eqns New!
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- Microwave Engineering by David M. Pozar on 4 pages
- Introduction to Modern Network Synthesis by M. E. Van Valkenburg on page 751, and page 767
- High-Speed Semiconductor Devices by Simon M. Sze on page 275, and page 348
- Semiconductor Devices: Solutions Manual: Physics and Technology by Simon M. Sze on page 275, and page 348
- Saga of the Vacuum Tube by Gerald F. J. Tyne on page 13, and page 14
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