RF and Microwave Design

This book deals with the design of circuits, devices, and systems at RF (radio frequency) and microwave frequencies using both the analytical technique and also the EDA (electronic design automation) software tools. EDA-based design technique is now used extensively and helps to translate the optimally designed structures directly to actual fabrication.

Salient features of the book:

• Covers fundamentals of RF and microwave devices and circuits in a concise manner to help students and design engineers refresh and recapitulate some of the basic concepts that are helpful from a designer’s point of view.
• Provides design of RF matching circuit with stub matching technique with an analytical design approach supplemented by design using the Smith chart.
• Discusses RF/microwave filter basics along with the analytical design technique and also with the EDA simulation tool-based design of low-pass, band-pass, and band-stop filters. The design of recently emerging metamaterial-inspired filters has also been included.
• Discusses basic concepts of RF/microwave oscillators and amplifiers together with the design of IMPATT oscillator and varactor-tuned VCO, low-noise amplifier and power amplifier design using the EDA software tool.
• Microwave power combiner and microwave mixer design are given using the EDA simulation tool. Also, a brief discussion regarding RF/microwave antennas is given with design examples of conventional and metamaterial-inspired microstrip patch antenna.
• Concisely covers RF/microwave system design concepts, which are required by students and design engineers to understand the system performance along with some rudimentary design of RF/microwave communication and radar system using EDA simulation tools.

It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, academic researchers and professionals engaged in electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, RF and microwave design, nanoelectronics, and physics studies.

Subal Kar is a former professor and Head of the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India. His field of specialization is RF and Microwave Engineering including Metamaterials and High Energy Physics. He has three patents to his credit on microwave oscillators, amplifiers, and power combiners and published a large number of research papers in peer reviewed international Journals. Dr. Kar has authored a number of books on microwave engineering, physics and astrophysics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, wireless technology.

He worked as Senior Fulbright Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA during 1999 – 2000 for the development of RF structure for a muon collider. Dr. Kar was an expert member for the establishment of millimeter-wave R&D facility at SAMEER (Society for Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research), Kolkata Centre, India. Dr. Kar and his team of the University of Calcutta in collaboration with SAMEER, Kolkata Centre and BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre), Mumbai, India, made the successful plasmonic metamaterial, first time in India. Dr. Kar is the recipient of Fulbright award from US Government, young scientist award from URSI and IEEE MTT. He is a fellow of IETE, India, senior member of IEEE, USA, fellow of VEDA Society, India.