RF and Microwave Design: Circuits, Devices, and Systems

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 that helps to translate the optimally designed structures directly to actual fabrication.

Salient features of the book:

• Fundamentals of RF and microwave devices and circuits have been covered in a concise manner in order to help the students and design engineers to refresh and recapitulate some of the basic concepts which is helpful from a designer’s point of view.
• Design of RF matching circuit with stub matching technique has been provided with analytical design approach supplemented by the design using Smith chart. Also, RF/microwave filter basics have been discussed 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 filter has also been included.
• Basic concepts of RF/microwave oscillator and amplifier have been discussed together with the design of IMPATT oscillator and varactor-tuned VCO, low-noise amplifier and power amplifier design using EDA software tool.
• Microwave power combiner and microwave mixer design has been given using EDA simulation tool. Also, a brief discussion regarding RF/microwave antennas has been given with design examples of conventional and metamaterial-inspired microstrip patch antenna.
• RF/microwave system design concepts have been covered concisely which is required by the students and design engineers to understand the system performance along with some rudimentary design of RF/microwave communication and radar system using EDA simulation tool has also been included.

It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, including 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.