Microwave Active Circuit Analysis and Design, (2016)

This book teaches the skills and knowledge required by today’s RF and microwave engineer in a concise, structured and systematic way. Reflecting modern developments in the field, this book focuses on active circuit design covering the latest devices and design techniques. From electromagnetic and transmission line theory and S-parameters through to amplifier and oscillator design, techniques for low noise and broadband design; This book focuses on analysis and design including up to date material on MMIC design techniques. With this book you will: * Learn the basics of RF and microwave circuit analysis and design, with an emphasis on active circuits, and become familiar with the operating principles of the most common active system building blocks such as amplifiers, oscillators and mixers * Be able to design transistor-based amplifiers, oscillators and mixers by means of basic design methodologies * Be able to apply established graphical design tools, such as the Smith chart and feedback mappings, to the design RF and microwave active circuits * Acquire a set of basic design skills and useful tools that can be employed without recourse to complex computer aided design * Structured in the form of modular chapters, each covering a specific topic in a concise form suitable for delivery in a single lecture * Emphasis on clear explanation and a step-by-step approach that aims to help students to easily grasp complex concepts * Contains tutorial questions and problems allowing readers to test their knowledge * An accompanying website containing supporting material in the form of slides and software (MATLAB) listings * Unique material on negative resistance oscillator design, noise analysis and three-port design techniques * Covers the latest developments in microwave active circuit design with new approaches that are not covered elsewhere Front Matter 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface 16 Acknowledgments 18 List of symbols and abbreviations 20 About the authors 24 SECTION A FOUNDATIONS 25 1 Introduction 27 Intended Learning Outcomes 28 Behavior of Real Components at Microwave Frequencies 44 The Importance of Impedance Matching 52 Maximum Power Transfer 52 Common Microwave Metrics 55 Takeaways 70 Tutorial Problems 71 2 Transmission line theory 75 Introduction 76 Propagation and Reflection on a Transmission Line 78 Primary Line Constants 92 The Lossless Transmission Line 95 Derivation of the Characteristic Impedance 96 Transmission Lines with Arbitrary Terminations 98 The Effect of Line Losses 105 Characteristic Impedance of Lossy Lines 105 Power Considerations 107 Takeaways 109 Tutorial Problems 110 3 Practical Transmission Lines 113 Introduction 114 Waveguide 114 Co-axial Cable 119 Microstrip Discontinuities 129 Stripline 135 Coplanar waveguide 136 Tutorial Problems 140 References 141 4 The Smith Chart 145 Introduction to the Smith Chart 146 Smith Chart Derivation 146 Using the Smith Chart 155 Conversion Between Immittance and Reflection Coefficient 155 References 164 SECTION B MICROWAVE CIRCUIT ANALYSIS 165 5 Immittance parameters 167 6 S-parameters 191 Gain and stability of active networks 229 8 Three-port analysis techniques 269 9 Lumped element matching networks 309 10 Distributed element matching networks 335 SECTION C MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN 377 11 Microwave semiconductor materials and diodes 379 12 Microwave transistors and MMICs 419 13 Microwave amplifier design 463 14 Low-noise amplifier design 499 15 Microwave oscillator design 543 16 Low-noise oscillator design 583 Root causes of phase noise 589 17 Microwave mixers 613 Appendix-A Parameter conversion tables 641 Appendix-B Physical constants 645 Appendix-C Forbidden regions for L-sections 647 Index 653 A 653 B 653 C 654 D 654 E 655 F 655 G 656 H 656 I 656 J 657 K 657 L 657 M 657 N 660 O 661 P 661 Q 662 R 662 S 662 T 664 U 666 V 666 W 666 Y 666 Z 666 Página em branco 19 Página em branco 23 Página em branco 26 Página em branco 144 Página em branco 166 Página em branco 308 Página em branco 378 Página em branco 418 Página em branco 462 Página em branco 498 Página em branco 542 Página em branco 644 Página em branco 646 Página em branco 652

This book teaches the skills and knowledge required by today’s RF and microwave engineer in a concise, structured and systematic way. Reflecting modern developments in the field, this book focuses on active circuit design covering the latest devices and design techniques.

From electromagnetic and transmission line theory and S-parameters through to amplifier and oscillator design, techniques for low noise and broadband design; This book focuses on analysis and design including up to date material on MMIC design techniques.

With this book you will:

• Learn the basics of RF and microwave circuit analysis and design, with an emphasis on active circuits, and become familiar with the operating principles of the most common active system building blocks such as amplifiers, oscillators and mixers
• Be able to design transistor-based amplifiers, oscillators and mixers by means of basic design methodologies
• Be able to apply established graphical design tools, such as the Smith chart and feedback mappings, to the design RF and microwave active circuits
• Acquire a set of basic design skills and useful tools that can be employed without recourse to complex computer aided design

• Structured in the form of modular chapters, each covering a specific topic in a concise form suitable for delivery in a single lecture
• Emphasis on clear explanation and a step-by-step approach that aims to help students to easily grasp complex concepts
• Contains tutorial questions and problems allowing readers to test their knowledge
• An accompanying website containing supporting material in the form of slides and software (MATLAB) listings
• Unique material on negative resistance oscillator design, noise analysis and three-port design techniques
• Covers the latest developments in microwave active circuit design with new approaches that are not covered elsewhere

Annotation This book teaches the skills and knowledge required by today s RF and microwave engineer in a concise, structured and systematic way. Reflecting modern developments in the field, this book focuses on active circuit design covering the latest devices and design techniques. From electromagnetic and transmission line theory and S-parameters through to amplifier and oscillator design, techniques for low noise and broadband design; This book focuses on analysis and design including up to date material on MMIC design techniques. With this book you will: Learn the basics of RF and microwave circuit analysis and design, with an emphasis on active circuits, and become familiar with the operating principles of the most common active system building blocks such as amplifiers, oscillators and mixersBe able to design transistor-based amplifiers, oscillators and mixers by means of basic design methodologiesBe able to apply established graphical design tools, such as the Smith chart and feedback mappings, to the design RF and microwave active circuits Acquire a set of basic design skills and useful tools that can be employed without recourse to complex computer aided designStructured in the form of modular chapters, each covering a specific topic in a concise form suitable for delivery in a single lectureEmphasis on clear explanation and a step-by-step approach that aims to help students to easily grasp complex concepts Contains tutorial questions and problems allowing readers to test their knowledgeAn accompanying website containing supporting material in the form of slides and software (MATLAB) listingsUnique material on negative resistance oscillator design, noise analysis and three-port design techniquesCovers the latest developments in microwave active circuit design with new approaches that are not covered elsewhere."