Ultra-wideband RF System Engineering

Thomas Zwick is Director of the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He has been president of the Institute for Microwaves and Antennas (IMA) since 2008. Werner Wiesbeck is a Distinguished Scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has received the IEEE Millennium Award, the IEEE GRS Distinguished Achievement Award and the IEEE Electromagnetics Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an Honorary Life Member of IEEE GRS-S, a Member of the Heidelberger Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Jens Timmermann works at Astrium GmbH, Germany, and lectures in electrical engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Ravensburg, Germany. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Grzegorz Adamiuk works on future space borne radar systems at Astrium GmbH, Germany. In 2010, he received the prestigious Südwestmetall Award for his scientific work.

• 1. Introduction Jens Timmermann and Thomas Zwick; 2. Fundamentals of UWB radio transmission Jens Timmermann and Thomas Zwick; 3. UWB antennas Grzegorz Adamiuk, Xuyang Li and Werner Wiesbeck; 4. UWB antenna arrays Grzegorz Adamiuk; 5. Monolithic integrated circuits for UWB transceivers Gunter Fischer and Christoph Scheytt; 6. UWB applications Xuyang Li, Jens Timmermann, Werner Wiesbeck and Lukasz Zwirello.

'This book represents much of the progress that has been made in the past 20 years, enabled by great advances in hardware technology as well as techniques … The many references open doors to much more information. This UWB topic deserves close attention by researchers and entrepreneurs in our field in the years to come. There will undoubtedly be numerous practical applications for this not-so-new technology.' Tom Perkins, High Frequency Electronics