Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Capacitance
- 3 Resistance
- 4 Ampère, Faraday, and Maxwell
- 5 Inductance
- 6 Passive device design and layout
- 7 Resonance and impedance matching
- 8 Small-signal high-speed amplifiers
- 9 Transmission lines
- 10 Transformers
- 11 Distributed circuits
- 12 High-speed switching circuits
- 13 Magnetic and electrical coupling and isolation
- 14 Electromagnetic propagation and radiation
- 15 Microwave circuits
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Capacitance
- 3 Resistance
- 4 Ampère, Faraday, and Maxwell
- 5 Inductance
- 6 Passive device design and layout
- 7 Resonance and impedance matching
- 8 Small-signal high-speed amplifiers
- 9 Transmission lines
- 10 Transformers
- 11 Distributed circuits
- 12 High-speed switching circuits
- 13 Magnetic and electrical coupling and isolation
- 14 Electromagnetic propagation and radiation
- 15 Microwave circuits
- References
- Index
Summary
Why another EM book? There are virtually thousands of books written on this subject and yet I felt the urge to write another one.
The idea for this book germinated in my mind on a long and uneventful drive from Berkeley to San Diego. I had just completed my first year of graduate school at Berkeley and had started a research project on analyzing spiral inductors. It occurred to me that studying electromagnetics as a circuit designer was a lot easier than studying it as an undergraduate at UCLA. Even though I took many EM courses during my undergraduate education, very little of it actually stuck with me. Much like all those foreign languages we learn in high school or college, without any practice, we quickly lose our skills. When we find ourselves at that critical moment in a foreign country, our language skills fail us. While EM is the foundation of much of electrical engineering, somehow it's treated as a foreign tongue, spoken only by the few learned folks in the the field. But learning EM should not be like learning Greek or Latin!
That summer I spent many weekends in San Diego visiting my family. During these trips I'd take my EM books down to the beach and study. I'd plant myself on the beach at La Jolla or Del Mar and work my way through my undergraduate EM text.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007