Dr. P K Chaturvedi is currently a professor in SRM University (NCR campus), Modinagar, UP. After completing his [...] 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.

Provides a large number of solved and unsolved problems

Uses actual numerical values in the scales of the graphs, dimensions of the components and devices to enable visualization of real devices and their properties

Includes 15 simple lab experiments

Contains an appendix on important constants of the devices, material and components

Introduction to Microwaves.- Transmission Lines, Waveguides, Strip Lines and Stub Matching by Smith Chart.- Microwaves Cavity Resonators.- Microwaves Components and their Scattering Matrices.- Microwave Tubes as Microwave Source (Oscillators) and Amplifiers.- Microwave Semiconductors Devices: Oscillators, Amplifiers and Circuit.- Microwave Measurement: Instruments and Techniques.- Microwaves Propagation in Space and Microwave Antennas.- Radar.- RF Filter Design.- RF Amplifiers, Oscillator and Mixers.- Simple Lab Experiments and Lab Manual.