Microwave and RF Engineering: Principles and Practice of Circuits, Antennas, and Wireless Systems

Microwave and RF engineering demands a different way of thinking. At high frequencies, interconnects behave as transmission lines, impedance mismatch creates reflections, parasitic effects become significant, and electromagnetic fields, circuits, antennas, propagation, noise, and measurement must be considered as parts of one complete system.

Microwave and RF Engineering: Principles and Practice of Circuits, Antennas, and Wireless Systems provides a structured and technically rigorous introduction to the principles, analytical methods, design practices, and measurement techniques used in modern high-frequency engineering.

Beginning with electromagnetic foundations and guided-wave behavior, the book progresses systematically from fundamental concepts to practical RF and microwave circuits, antennas, wireless links, measurement techniques, and integrated system design.

Readers will learn how to:

• Analyze transmission lines, characteristic impedance, reflections, standing waves, and guided-wave structures.

• Apply Smith-chart techniques and scattering parameters to impedance matching and microwave network analysis.

• Understand power dividers, directional couplers, resonators, filters, and other passive microwave components.

• Evaluate RF and microwave amplifiers, including gain, stability, biasing, matching, compression, and efficiency.

• Examine oscillators, frequency synthesizers, phase-locked loops, mixers, frequency conversion, phase noise, images, and spurious responses.

• Relate noise figure, nonlinear distortion, intercept points, compression, and dynamic range to receiver and transmitter performance.

• Understand antenna radiation, gain, polarization, aperture concepts, phased arrays, mutual coupling, and beam steering.

• Analyze radio-wave propagation, Fresnel-zone clearance, diffraction, atmospheric effects, multipath, fading, diversity, and wireless link budgets.

• Perform and interpret practical RF measurements using vector network analyzers, spectrum and power instruments, calibration, de-embedding, and uncertainty analysis.

Across fourteen comprehensive chapters, the material is reinforced with worked examples, engineering illustrations, technical tables, key equations, practice problems, selected solution guidance, appendices, a glossary, and a subject index.

This book is designed for upper-level electrical and electronics engineering students, graduate students beginning RF specialization, early-career RF and microwave engineers, practicing professionals, laboratory personnel, and technically experienced readers seeking a dependable reference that connects theory with practical design and measurement.

Rather than presenting microwave circuits, antennas, propagation, active devices, and measurements as isolated subjects, this book demonstrates how they interact within complete RF and wireless systems.

Add this practical engineering reference to your technical library and develop a stronger, more integrated understanding of microwave circuits, RF components, antennas, propagation, measurement, and wireless-system design.