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Transmission Line Design Handbook (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library) (Artech House Microwave Library)

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As other reviewers have noted, this book has a huge collection of design/analysis formulas for various transmission line structures. This is the good news. The bad news is that there are quite a large number of typographical errors in the book. For example at least one of the loss equations is missing a factor of PI. It is still a useful book, but it is important to refer to the references given for each section to double check that equations have been transcribed correctly.

In all fairness to the author, this may have been a book publisher issue and I have found other texts and papers in this general area to have similar issues (missing squared terms, wavelengths that belong in the denominator appearing in the numerator, etc). I think the moral of the story is you have to really watch what equations you actually use.

This book is for people that need good results fast without having to go into the derivations. If you need to get your project finished in the real world this is the bible to have. The book seems to be the result of tons of experience and we have used a lot of the formulas and we have yet to find that didn't work right on the money. If you want to get transmission line stuff done quickly and painlessly this is the one to buy.

If your looking for derivations - this is the wrong book for you
There is also a shortage analysis techniques.

This book is packed with quick formula and would might be quite useful as implied by the "design handbook" name. Some of the later chapters cover some interesting details but could use more discussion which is quite brief throughout the text. See contents.

a comprehensive collection and reference of materials concerning microwave transmission line. It is actually a long standing best seller from the premier publisher Artech House.