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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013
The use of transmission lines has increased considerably since the author began his lectures on them at the University of Kent at Canterbury in October 1968. Now the mighty internet involves huge lengths of optical fibres, estimated at over 750 million miles, and similar lengths of copper cables. The ubiquitous mobile phones and personal computers contain circuits using microstrip, coplanar waveguide and stripline. However, despite all these widespread modern applications of transmission lines, the basic principles have remained the same. So much so, that the many classic textbooks on this subject have been essential reading for nearly a hundred years. It is not the purpose of this book to repeat the content of these standard works but to present the material in a form which students may find more digestible. Also this is an age where mathematical calculations are relatively simple to perform on modern personal computers and so there is less need for much of the advanced mathematics of earlier years. The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to a wide range of transmission line topics using a straightforward mathematical treatment which is linked to a large number of graphs illustrating the text. Although the professional worker in this field would use a computer program to solve most transmission line problems, the value of this book is that it provides exact solutions to many simple problems which can be used to verify the more sophisticated computer solutions. The treatment of the material will also encourage ‘back-of-envelope’ calculations which may save hours of computer usage. The author is aware of the hundreds of books published on every aspect of transmission lines and the myriads of scientific publications which appear in an ever increasing number of journals. To help the reader get started on exploring any topic in greater depth, this book contains comments on many of these specialist books at the end of each chapter. Following this will be the reader's daunting task to search through the scientific literature for even more information. It is the author's hope that this book will establish some of the basic principles of this extensive subject which make the use of some of these scientific papers more profitable.
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