Radio Receiver Technology: Principles, Architectures and Applications

About the Author

Ralf Rudersdorfer, born in 1979, began his career at the Institute for Applied Physics. He then changed to the Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems (formerly Institute for Communications and Information Engineering) of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, where he is head of Domain Labs and Technics. His activities included the setting up of a measuring station with attenuated reflection properties/antenna measuring lab and furnishing the electronic labs of the Mechatronics Department with new basic equipment.

He began publishing technical papers at the age of 21. In August 2002 he became a Guest Consultant for laboratory equipment and RF hardware and conducted practical training courses in ‘Electronic Circuit Engineering’ at the reactivated Institute for Electronics Engineering at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. In 2006 he applied for a patent covering the utilization of a specific antenna design for two widely deviating ranges of operating frequencies, which was granted within only 14 months without any prior objections. In the winter semesters 2008 to 2011 the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, commissioned him with the execution of the practical training course on ‘Applied Electrical Engineering’.

Rudersdorfer is the author of numerous practice-oriented publications in the fields of radio transmitters ...