Microwave engineering becomes difficult when an interconnect stops behaving like an ideal wire. Length, geometry, dielectric material, discontinuities, and termination become part of the circuit, while reflection, phase, propagation modes, coupling, loss, and radiation reshape familiar electrical behavior. This handbook provides a connected route through that change in viewpoint.
Readers begin with electromagnetic quantities, waves, materials, transmission-line theory, reflection coefficients, standing waves, impedance transformation, and graphical matching. Network analysis develops measurable wave relationships and reference-plane discipline before the book moves into waveguides, planar structures, resonators, passive components, filters, active devices, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, antennas, and complete radio-frequency systems.
Worked examples connect equations with units, assumptions, physical interpretation, and checks. The text distinguishes commonly confused quantities, explains when lumped approximations fail, and shows how tolerances, substrate properties, conductor and dielectric loss, nonlinear behavior, temperature, packaging, connectors, and unwanted coupling affect real designs.
Measurement is integrated with analysis. Readers examine calibration, fixtures, connector repeatability, dynamic range, noise floor, uncertainty, reference-plane movement, network measurements, and comparison between predicted and observed behavior. System chapters bring noise, gain, compression, linearity, stability, cascades, frequency conversion, link budgets, antennas, integration, reliability, and troubleshooting together.
Designed for advanced students, technicians, graduate readers, and practicing engineers, the handbook supports sequential learning and focused reference. It helps readers move among physical structure, electromagnetic fields, circuit models, and measured data without treating them as separate worlds.
The book also develops sensitivity and verification habits for narrowband matching, high-quality-factor resonators, low-noise front ends, power amplifiers, connector launches, and precision measurements. Readers are encouraged to compare nominal calculations with realistic tolerances, thermal shifts, material variation, fixture effects, and repeatability before accepting a design conclusion.
These checks remain important across changing operating conditions.
Inside, readers will learn to:
Understand when distributed behavior replaces ordinary circuit intuition.
Calculate propagation, reflection, standing waves, and impedance transformations.
Interpret network parameters at clearly defined reference planes.
Study passive and active microwave circuits as connected systems.
Relate antennas, noise, gain, linearity, stability, and link budgets.
Use measurement and troubleshooting to test design assumptions against real behavior.
Add this handbook to your technical library and build the analytical and measurement judgment needed to evaluate microwave circuits and RF systems with greater confidence, from transmission lines and impedance matching to network measurements, amplifiers, antennas, link budgets, and real-world troubleshooting.
