Do you want to design a wireless transmitter or receiver for hand-held telephones or local area networks? Have you wondered why the printed circuit wires on high-frequency circuits don't always run in a straight line? This valuable text will answer all of your questions regarding component parasitics and circuit characterisation for rf/microwave amplifier, oscillator, and filter circuit design and analysis. You will understand why capacitors act as inductors and vice versa and why amplifiers work like oscillators, while oscillators for local area networks work more like local area heaters. Application of the information in Introduction to Microwave Circuits will reduce design cycle time and costs, markedly increasing the probability of first-time success in printed circuit or monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) microwave circuit design. Several approaches are taken into consideration, such as the effects of currents on the ground plane, bypass and coupling capacitors, and nonlinear effects in linear circuits.

Featured topics include:

• Incorporation of component parasitics in the design cycle
• Closed form solution to oscillator design
• Odd mode stability analysis
• Scattering parameter analysis methods -- mixed mode circuits and load pull techniques
• PIN diode analysis for high-power switching applications

Contents:

• Preface.
• Acknowledgements
• Microwave Circuits
• Models, Modelling, and Characterisation
• S-Parameter Measurement Methods
• Multiport and Differential-Mode Scattering Parameters
• Stability, Stabilisation, and Gain
• Matching Networks, Attenuators, and Phase Shifters.
• RF/Microwave Power Generation Considerations
• Resonators and Oscillators
• Microwave Filter Design
• Noise Considerations for Microwave Circuits
• Detection and Mixing
• Microwave Components
• Pulsed Microwave Circuit Analysis
• Nonlinear Effects in Microwave Circuits
• Amplifier, Oscillator, and Filter Circuit Design Examples
• Appendix A: An Approximate Formula for the Characteristic Impedance of a
• Microstrip Line
• Appendix B: Some Complex Variable Facts
• Appendix C: Matric Multiplication
• Appendix D: Resistor, Capacitor, and Inductor Component Modeling
• Appendix E: Chip Resistor Sizes—Nominal Sizes Only
• Appendix F: S Parameters (Scattering Parameters—Current Referenced)
• Appendix G: Modeling Using an Equivalent Mechanical Model
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author