Microwave Engineering

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Summary: A BASIC REFERENCE IN MW ENGINEERING
Review: A BASIC TEXT FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS ALIKE. IT GIVES INSIGHT INTO A WIDE VARIETY OF ASPECTS OF MW ENGINEERING. THE CHAPTERS ON FILTER ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS ARE WELL EXPAINED AND USEFUL FOR FIRST APROXIMATION DESIGNS. MODAL ANALYSIS TREATS BASIC ASPECTS OF UNIFORM WAVEGUIDES. THE CHAPTER ON AMPLIFIERS IS VERY DIDACTICAL AND GIVES INSIGHT IN THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN DESIGNING ACTIVE CIRCUITS IN MW TECHNOLOGY. IN BRIEF, A VERY DIDACTICAL BOOK AND A BASIC REFERENCE (AT LEAST FOR ME!!).

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Summary: Overrated
Review: A good book on Microwaves but really overrated. Not a very good book as far introduction to the subject is concerned. It expects you to know too many things first hand. Even giving it three stars is a bit generous.

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Summary: A must have.
Review: Any microwave Engineer/Student will need this book and if they don't have it, they will end up borrowing it a lot from wiser peers.

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Summary: I've seen better.
Review: As a senior college student majoring in electrical engineering, I believe that this book needs more examples. The problems at the end of each chapter rarely correlate to examples given in the text and I spend hours looking up equations. All in all, I am not enjoying using this text book.

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Summary: nice book
Review: He writes nice books.
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Summary: A must have for RF Engineering Students
Review: 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.

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Summary: Not a surprise it's constantly checked out and waitlisted
Review: 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.

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Summary: The best book I ever had
Review: 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!

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Summary: Good Microwave Engineering Book
Review: 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.)

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Summary: The best introduction to Microwave Engineering.
Review: 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