Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques (eBook)

GEORGE D. VENDELIN, ENGEE, is a technical consultant with more than forty years of microwave engineering design and teaching experience. His clients include Texas Instruments, Anritsu, Ford Aerospace/Loral Space & Communications/Lockheed Martin, Litton/Filtronics, and many others through his consulting firm, Vendelin Engineering. He is the author of Design of Amplifiers and Oscillators by the S-Parameter Method (Wiley). He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, and the University of California, Berkeley-Extension. ANTHONY M. PAVIO, PHD, is the Manager of the Phoenix Design Center for Rockwell Collins, which is focused on the development of advanced high-density military products. He was previously the manager of Integrated RF Ceramics Center for Motorola Labs, specializing in the development of highly integrated LTCC modules. Dr. Pavio was also a technical director of the microwave products division of Texas Instruments. ULRICH L. ROHDE, PHD, Dr.-ING, is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corporation; a partner of Rohde & Schwarz, a firm specializing in test equipment and advanced communications systems; and Professor of Microwave and RF Technology at the Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany.

Foreword by David Leeson.

Preface.

1. RF/Microwave Systems.

2. Lumped and Distributed Elements.

3. Active Devices.

4. Two-Port Networks.

5. Impedance Matching.

6. Microwave Filters.

7. Noise in Linear Two-Ports.

8. Small- and Large-Signal Amplifier Design.

9. Power Amplifier Design.

10. Oscillator Design.

11. Microwave Mixer Design.

12. RF Switches and Attenuators.

13. Microwave Computer-Aided Workstations foor MMICRequirements..

Appendix A: BIP: Gummel-Poon Bipolar Transistor Model.

Appendix B: Level 3 MOSFET.

Appendix C: Noise Parameters of GaAs MESFETs.

Appendix D: Derivations for Unilateral Gain Section.

Appendix E: Vector Representationof Two-Tone Intermodulation Products.

Appendix F: Passive Microwave Elements.

Index.

"I would like to have this book for my graduate study...the book is definitely for graduate students or practicing engineers." (IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, September/October 2006)