RF and microwave technologies drive innovation, enhance connectivity, and impact various aspects of our daily lives. RF and Microwave Engineering is one of the fastest growth areas of the past decade. RF and Microwave will continue to be a very active area of research and application in a large variety of fields. The Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering technologies play crucial roles in our modern world. This publication illustrates how this field has been the key to enabling technology responsible for the phenomenal growth of Wireless Communications, Data Transmission, Healthcare and Medicine Industrial Applications, Defense and Security, Space Exploration and Scientific Research. The encyclopedia examines how RF and microwave engineering continues to have great influence as the technology behind such important applications as radar, remote sensing, remote control, sensors, navigation, surveillance, electronic warfare, radiometers, plasma research, and imaging. For this update we will see new articles and updated articles being published on the topics of:
Antennas
Biophysics Applications
Electromagnetic Materials
Electromagnetics
Microwave Circuits and Systems
Microwave Devices
Propagation
Systems Applications
CHRISTOPHER T. RODENBECK (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. (summa cum laude), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively. He is currently an Office Head with U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, where leads multiple research programs in microwave power beaming and serves as the principal investigator for the Air Force Research Laboratory's Arachne power beaming spacecraft. His programs at NRL have resulted in the development of multiple first-in-class millimeter-wave airborne radar systems for the US Navy and Department of Defense. From 2004 to 2014, he led a multidisciplinary advanced/exploratory technology development program for radar and sensor applications at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. The success of this work was twice the subject of Congressional testimony by Sandia's President. He has authored or coauthored numerous refereed journal papers, patents and patent applications, conference papers, and government reports on a wide range of topics in electrical engineering. These, as well as his professional honors and distinctions, are available in an online CV and publication list.
KAI CHANG is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Texas A&M University where he teaches and performs research in microwave devices and circuits. Previously he was a section head at TRW, Inc. where he was responsible for millimeter-wave integrated circuit component and subsystem development. Prior to this, Dr. Chang was a supervisor at Hughes Aircraft Company, where he was involved in the development of microwave circuits, millimeter-wave oscillators, and power combiners. Dr. Chang is the author of a number of book chapters and has published over 90 technical papers on microwave circuits, components, and subsystems. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan.
