Cover -- Electromagnetics Explained: A Handbook for Wireless/RF, EMC, and High-Speed Electronics -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Survey of the Electromagnetic Spectrum -- The Need for Electromagnetics -- The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- Electrical Length -- The Finite Speed of Light -- Electronics -- Analog and Digital Signals -- RF Techniques -- Microwave Techniques -- Infrared and the Electronic Speed Limit -- Visible Light and Beyond -- Lasers and Photonics -- Summary -- Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Electric Fields -- The Electric Force Field -- Other Types of Fields -- Voltage and Potential Energy -- Charges in Metals -- The Definition of Resistance -- Electrons and Holes -- Electrostatic Induction and Capacitance -- Insulators (Dielectrics) -- Static Electricity and Lightning -- The Battery Revisited -- Electric Field Examples -- Conductivity and Permittivity of Common Materials -- Chapter 3. Fundamentals of Magnetic Fields -- Moving Charges: Source of All Magnetic Fields -- Magnetic Dipoles -- Effects of the Magnetic Field -- The Vector Magnetic Potential and Potential Momentum -- Magnetic Materials -- Magnetism and Quantum Physics -- Chapter 4. Electrodynamics -- Changing Magnetic Fields and Lenz's Law -- Faraday's Law -- Inductors -- AC Circuits, Impedance, and Reactance -- Relays, Doorbells, and Phone Ringers -- Moving Magnets and Electric Guitars -- Generators and Microphones -- The Transformer -- Saturation and Hysteresis -- When to Gap Your Cores -- Ferrites: The Friends of RF, High-Speed Digital, and Microwave Engineers -- Maxwell's Equations and the Displacement Current -- Perpetual Motion -- What About D and H? The Constituitive Relations -- Chapter 5. Radiation -- Storage Fields versus Radiation Fields -- Electrical Length -- The Field of a Static Charge.

The Field of a Moving Charge -- The Field of an Accelerating Charge -- X-Ray Machines -- The Universal Origin of Radiation -- The Field of an Oscillating Charge -- The Field of a Direct Current -- The Field of an Alternating Current -- Near and Far Field -- The Fraunhoffer and Fresnel Zones -- Parting Words -- Chapter 6. Relativity and Quantum Physics -- Relativity and Maxwell's Equations -- Space and Time Are Relative -- Space and Time Become Space-Time -- The Cosmic Speed Limit and Proper Velocity -- Electric Field and Magnetic Field Become the Electromagnetic Field -- The Limits of Maxwell's Equations -- Quantum Physics and the Birth of the Photon -- The Quantum Vacuum and Virtual Photons -- Explanation of the Magnetic Vector Potential -- The Future of Electromagnetics -- Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Beyond -- Chapter 7. The Hidden Schematic -- The Non-Ideal Resistor -- The Non-Ideal Capacitor -- The Non-Ideal Inductor -- Non-Ideal Wires and Transmission Lines -- Other Components -- Making High-Frequency Measurements of Components -- RF Coupling and RF Chokes -- Component Selection Guide -- Chapter 8. Transmission Lines -- The Circuit Model -- Characteristic Impedance -- The Waveguide Model -- Relationship between the Models -- Reflections -- Putting It All Together -- Digital Signals and the Effects of Rise Time -- Analog Signals and the Effects of Frequency -- Impedance Transforming Properties -- Impedance Matching for Digital Systems -- Impedance Matching for RF Systems -- Maximum Load Power -- Measuring Characteristic Impedance: TDRs -- Standing Waves -- Chapter 9. Waveguides and Shields -- Reflection of Radiation at Material Boundaries -- The Skin Effect -- Shielding in the Far Field -- Near Field Shielding of Electric Fields -- Why You Should Always Ground a Shield -- Near Field Shielding of Magnetic Fields -- Waveguides.

Resonant Cavities and Schumann Resonance -- Fiber Optics -- Lasers and Lamps -- Chapter 10. Circuits as Guides for Waves and S-Parameters -- Surface Waves -- Surface Waves on Wires -- Coupled Surface Waves and Transmission Lines -- Lumped Element Circuits versus Distributed Circuits -- λ/8 Transmission Lines -- S-Parameters: A Technique for All Frequencies -- The Vector Network Analyzer -- Chapter 11. Antennas: How to Make Circuits That Radiate -- The Electric Dipole -- The Electric Monopole -- The Magnetic Dipole -- Receiving Antennas and Reciprocity -- Radiation Resistance of Dipole Antennas -- Feeding Impedance and Antenna Matching -- Antenna Pattern versus Electrical Length -- Polarization -- Effects of Ground on Dipoles -- Wire Losses -- Scattering by Antennas, Antenna Aperture, and Radar Cross-Section -- Directed Antennas and the Yagi-Uda Array -- Traveling Wave Antennas -- Antennas in Parallel and the Folded Dipole -- Multiturn Loop Antennas -- Chapter 12. Emc -- Part I: Basics -- Self-Compatibility and Signal Integrity -- Frequency Spectrum of Digital Signals -- Conducted versus Induced versus Radiated Interference -- Crosstalk -- Part II: PCB Techniques -- Circuit Layout -- PCB Transmission Lines -- The Path of Least Impedance -- The Fundamental Rule of Layout -- Shielding on PCBs -- Common Impedance: Ground Rise and Ground Bounce -- Star Grounds for Low Frequency -- Distributed Grounds for High Frequency: The 5/5 Rule -- Tree or Hybrid Grounds -- Power Supply Decoupling: Problems and Techniques -- Power Supply Decoupling: The Design Process -- RF Decoupling -- Power Plane Ripples -- 90 Degree Turns and Chamfered Corners -- Layout of Transmission Line Terminations -- Routing of Signals: Ground Planes, Image Planes, and PCB Stackup -- 3W Rule for Preventing Crosstalk -- Layout Miscellany -- Layout Examples -- Part III: Cabling.

Ground Loops (Multiple Return Paths) -- Differential Mode and Common Mode Radiation -- Cable Shielding -- Chapter 13. Lenses, Dishes, and Antenna Arrays -- Reflecting Dishes -- Lenses -- Imaging -- Electronic Imaging and Antenna Arrays -- Optics and Nature -- Chapter 14. Diffraction -- Diffraction and Electrical Size -- Huygens' Principle -- Babinet's Principle -- Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction -- Radio Propagation -- Continuous Media -- Chapter 15. Frequency Dependence of Materials, Thermal Radiation, and Noise -- Frequency Dependence of Materials -- Heat Radiation -- Circuit Noise -- Conventional and Microwave Ovens -- Appendix A. Electrical Engineering Book Recommendations -- Index.