Microwave, Radar & RF Engineering

This is a textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate courses on microwave engineering, written in a student-friendly manner with many diagrams and illustrations. It works towards developing a foundation for further study and research in the field. The book begins with a brief history of microwaves and introduction to core concepts of EM waves and wave guides. It covers equipment and concepts involved in the study and measurement of microwaves. The book also discuses microwave propagation in space, microwave antennae, and all aspects of RADAR. The book provides core pedagogy with chapter objectives, summaries, solved examples, and end-of-chapter exercises. The book also includes a bonus chapter which serves as a lab manual with 15 simple experiments detailed with proper circuits, precautions, sample readings, and quiz/viva questions for each experiment. This book will be useful to instructors and students alike. 

Author Biography

Dr. P K Chaturvedi is currently a professor in SRM University (NCR campus), Modinagar, UP. After completing his M.Tech from BITS Pilani in 1969, he did his PhD from CEERI, Pilani in 1974. He holds an MBA from the University of Sterling, Scotland, which was sponsored by the Govt. of India.

He started his teaching career from IIT Madras. Thereafter he joined the Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India. Meanwhile, he continued as a visiting professor in DIT (now NSIT), University of Delhi. He retired as Director from the Ministry in 2004 and thereafter he has been Director, Amity University; Director GITM, Gurgaon. He carries an experience of 38 years in teaching and research, besides experience of techno-management. He has published 18 research papers in international and Indian journals like IEEE-Trans. ED, Solid State Electronics, Micro-electronics Journal, Physica Status Solidi, etc. He has also been Project Management Chief of a number of Govt. of India Projects like Digital TV, CODIN, Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL). He has traveled widely and has represented India as leader/member of various technical/trade negotiation teams to many European countries (like the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Poland), the USA, Thailand etc.