Edward F. Kuester
Professor


Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0425
USA

Office: Engineering Center, ECOT 248
Phone: (303) 492-5173
Fax: (303) 492-2758
E-mail: kuester@schof.colorado.edu
Research Area: Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves

Semester:

Fall 2008
Course Web Pages:

http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~ecen3400/
http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~ecen4634/
Office Hours:

TBA
or by appointment


Use of the Microwave/EM Teaching Lab (ECEE 254)

    
The lab in room ECEE 254 is not an open lab, in contrast with many other labs in the Department. Students wanting access to this lab at other than scheduled class times must see me for permission. Please read and understand the RF/Microwave Lab Rules before requesting this permission; I will ask you some questions about lab procedures before I authorize your access.

Publications of E. F. Kuester

EM Group Publications

Presented below for download are selected publications by the Electromagnetics Group at UCB. I post them whenever I receive a request for one.

Frequency-dependent definitions of microstrip characteristic impedance, by E. F. Kuester, D. C. Chang and L. Lewin, International URSI Symposium on Electromagnetic Waves, Munich, 26-29 August, 1980.

EM Group Scientific and Technical Reports

Presented below for download is a selection of scientific reports from the Electromagnetics Group at UCB which have been requested frequently. The file size is indicated when larger than 1 MB. As further requests come in, and the reports can be scanned and converted, I will post more of them. Enjoy.

Scientific Report No. 3 (AFCRL-1111, AD-282918): Stationary principles for operator equations with applications to electromagnetic theory, by R. Mittra (27 November 1961) - 1.0 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 2: Reduction of radiation loss in a curved dielectric slab waveguide, by D. C. Chang and F. S. Barnes (July, 1973) - 1.0 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 8: Solution of electromagnetic problems using the modified residue calculus and functional theoretic techniques, by J. P. Montgomery and D. C. Chang (June 1974) - 6.5 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 16: Radiation of a surface wave from a curvature discontinuity in an impedance surface - Part I: Convex bend, by E. F. Kuester and D. C. Chang (January, 1976) - 1.2 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 18: Radiation from a circular bend between two discontinuities in dielectric slab waveguides and in circular, cylindrical dielectric waveguides, by S. W. Maley (June, 1976)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 19: A general theory on small, radiating apertures in the outer sheath of a coaxial cable, by D. C. Chang (July, 1976) - 1.2 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 21 (RADC-TR-76-287): Modal representation of a horizontal wire above a finitely conducting earth, by E. F. Kuester and D. C. Chang (September, 1976) - 1.4 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 24 (RADC-TR-77-81): Characteristics of discrete propagation modes on a system of horizontal wires over a dissipative earth, by S. W. Plate, D. C. Chang and E. F. Kuester (February, 1977) - 1.1 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 27: Three papers on the wire above earth problem, translated with corrections from the Russian by E. F. Kuester (October, 1977) - 2.8 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 30: Conceptual studies of intrusion detection systems using leaky transmission lines, by S. W. Maley (March, 1978)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 32 (RADC-TR-78-77): Propagating modes on a buried leaky coaxial cable, by S. W. Plate, D. C. Chang and E. F. Kuester (March, 1978)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 33: Detectability of objects in the vicinity of two-wire intrusion sensing systems: Theoretical Studies, by S. W. Maley (June, 1978)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 42: Structure of the electromagnetic field of a vertical electric dipole and of vertical antennas in the space above a plane earth, by G. N. Krylov and G. I. Makarov; translated from the Russian by E. F. Kuester (January, 1979) - 1.5 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 43: Evaluation of Sommerfeld integrals associated with dipole sources above earth, by E. F. Kuester and D. C. Chang (January, 1979) - 2.5 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 44: Transient electromagnetic field generated by a vertical electric dipole on the surface of a dissipative earth, by H. Haddad and D. C. Chang (February, 1979)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 45: Fundamental propagation modes on a dielectric waveguide of arbitrary cross section, by R. C. Pate and E. F. Kuester (February, 1979) - 1.7 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 46: Propagation of radio waves in a coal seam in the presence of a conducting cable, by D. C. Chang and J. R. Wait (April, 1979; revised)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 47: Diffraction by a dielectric wedge, by L. Lewin and I. Sreenivasiah (January, 1979) - 4.6 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 53: On optimum excitation of ground waves, by D. C. Chang and E. F. Kuester (December, 1979)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 60: Differentiation of line, surface, and volume integrals, by S. W. Maley (March, 1981)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 61: Dielectric line coupler using only curved sections, by M. Abouzahra and L. Lewin (March, 1981)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 64: Radiation loss from a curved dielectric channel waveguide in a dense substrate, by E. F. Kuester, R. L. Holland and D. C. Chang (June, 1981) - 1.2 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 68: Microwave model of a dielectric slab waveguide, by R. F. German (November, 1981) - 1.8 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 69: Input impedance to a probe-fed rectangular microstrip patch antenna, by J. Venkataraman and D. C. Chang (November, 1982)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 72: The transient electromagnetic field of a pulsed line source located above a dispersively reflecting surface, by E. F. Kuester (October, 1982) - 3.4 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 73: Coupled mode theory of two non-parallel dielectric waveguides, by M. A. McHenry and D. C. Chang (January, 1983)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 76: The far-field radiation characteristics of a resonant conducting ring on a grounded dielectric substrate, by R. L. Holland and E. F. Kuester (September, 1983)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 78: A study of triangular microstrip antennas, by Y. Tu (September, 1983) - 1.3 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 79: Double variational evaluation of linear antenna current, by N. A. Kuester (May, 1985) - 1.1 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 80: A unified approach to the derivation of bivariational principles in acoustics and electromagnetics, by E. F. Kuester and D. C. Chang (second printing with revisions, August, 1986) - 1.1 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 84: Line parameters of coplanar strips used as electro-optic modulator electrodes, by E. F. Kuester, D. C. Chang and F. S. Quazi (May, 1986)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 87: The edge admittance of a wide microstrip patch seen by an obliquely incident wave, by T. M. Martinson and E. F. Kuester (January, 1987)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 90: A two-port rectangular microstrip antenna element, by A. Derneryd (July, 1987) - 1.1 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 92: Low-frequency properties of transversely periodic lossy waveguides, by E. F. Kuester (October, 1987)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 95: Born-type reconstruction of material parameters of an inhomogeneous, lossy dielectric slab from reflected-field data, by A. G. Tijhuis (December, 1987) - 1.9 MB

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 99: Modeling semi-anechoic electromagnetic measurement chambers, by C. L. Holloway and E. F. Kuester (August, 1990)

EM Laboratory Scientific Report No. 105: Design of backing layers for pyramid absorbers to minimize low frequency reflection, by H. T. Gibbons (July, 1990; reprinted with corrections, July, 1992) - 2.3 MB

MIMICAD Technical Report No. 3: Calculation of transmission line parameters and electric field distribution of coplanar electrodes on layered dielectric substrates, by P. S. Weitzman, J. M. Dunn and A. R. Mickelson (May, 1990)

MIMICAD Technical Report No. 8: Electromagnetic modeling of coplanar waveguide discontinuities, by S. Petrakos (August, 1991) - 1.1 MB

MIMICAD Technical Report No. 9: Electromagnetic modeling of coplanar stripline discontinuities, by D. Jahn (August, 1991) - 1.2 MB

MIMICAD Technical Report No. 13: A perturbational solution methodology for solving integral equations of microstrip circuit discontinuities, by J. C. Moore (May, 1992) - 4.9 MB

Historical Papers Related to Metamaterials

Here are some papers which appeared long before the advent of artificial dielectrics, bandgap materials or metamaterials. In some cases they have been translated into English to make them accessible to a wider audience. I will add to these as time permits.

Growth of a Wave-group when the Group-velocity is Negative, by H. C. Pocklington (1905)

On the propagation of light in media with periodic structure, by H. Chipart (1924)

Lectures on Certain Problems in the Theory of Oscillations, by L. I. Mandel’shtam (1944)

Group velocity in a crystal lattice, by L. I. Mandel'shtam (1945)

Molecular theory of the reflection and refraction of light, by D. V. Sivukhin (1948)