Microstrip Lines and Slotlines (Artech House Microwave Library (Hardcover)) 3rd ed. Edition

Are you a design engineer and research development specialist who needs to employ planar transmission lines in realizing distributed circuits and antenna systems? If you are, then this book is for you. Authors Ramesh Garg, Inder Bahl and Maurizio Bozzi, have done an outstanding job of writing the 3rd edition of a book on planar transmission line technology.Authors Garg, Bahl and Bozzi, begin with a discussion on when the width of a microstrip line on a dielectric substrate can be adjusted by controlling its impedance by dimensions in a single plane, the circuit fabrication can be conveniently carried out by techniques of photolithography and photoetching of thin films. Next, authors discuss the methods of studying wave propagation along a microstrip line without making any quasi-static assumption. Then, they discuss the methods for the calculation of quasi-static capacitances and inductances for a discontinuity. In addition, authors present a two-dimensional analysis, which is based on a planar waveguide model of a mcrostrip line. They also discuss design considerations for the slotline, short-end and open-end discontinuities, transitions from slotline to microstrip and coaxial line, and some circuit applications of slotlines. The authors continue with a discussion of bandstop filter characteristics of DGS, equivalent circuit modeling, and applications of DGS to circuits and antennas. Next, they present coplanar waveguide, coplanar strips, and their variants. Then, the authors discuss coupled microstrip lines, which have been revised through the introduction of a new section on the analysis of slot-coupled microstrip lines. Finally, they discuss the analysis and design of SIW, equivalent circuit modeling of SIW interconnect, and discontinuities.This most excellent book will be very helpful in the design and research engineering of the continued development of applications for planar transmission line techniques. The applications of computational techniques to planar lines are the highlight of this great book.