About the Book

The objective of this book is to present the basic principles, characteristics and applications of commonly used Microwave Devices and to explain the techniques for designing Microwave Circuits for undergraduate students. As this book being self-explanatory to a large extent, it also serves as a convenient reference for Electronics Engineers working in the Microwave field and is useful as reference for microwave lab.

Salient Features

• Solved problems are given at the end of each chapter

• Arrangement of topics is flexible so that an instructor may conveniently select the topics to suit one-semester course

• Additional problems in each chapter establish the reader's further understanding of the subject

Contents

1. Microwave Transmission Lines 2. Circular Waveguides 3. Waveguide Components and Applications 4. Waveguide Components and Applications 5. Microwave Tubes 6. Helix Traveling Wave Tubes 7. Microwave Solid State Devices 8. Microwave Measurements 9. Microwave Experiments 10. Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits

About the Author

Prof. Radha Krishna, M.E.(Microwaves) has 30 years of R & D and industrial experience in DLRL and HAL, Hyderabad respectively. He joined teaching line as Professor & Head of ECE and also worked as Principal in three Engineering Colleges. Presently he is working as a Senior Professor and Head of ECE Dept. in Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He taught Radar Engineering, Satellite Communications, Optical Communications and Antennas & Wave propagation, Microwaves and Cellular & Mobile Communications. He is a fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers; Fellow of Institutions of Engineers (India); Life Member of Hyderabad Management Association and Life Member of Aeronautical Society of India. Prof. Radha Krishna has written number of articles on Semiconductor Devices and a paper on Inductor–less RC Filters in the journal of IETE. He has already authored three books on Radar Engineering & Systems and on Optical Communications.