Principles of Rf and Microwave Design

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Product Description This comprehensive resource provides a thorough introduction to the principles of electronic circuits operating in the radio, microwave, and millimeter-wave frequency ranges. The book highlights the fundamental physical laws of classical electromagnetics using a foundation of Maxwell's equations to give insight into the operating principles of circuit elements of all kinds, from lumped elements to transmission lines, waveguides, optical fibers, and quasi-optical structures. Standard passive system components like filters, splitters, couplers, hybrids, baluns, and antennas are explained to acclimate the reader to considering multiple technological solutions for common design problems. A basic overview of active circuit designs, such as amplifiers, mixers, and multipliers is also provided, along with discussion of the performance characteristics of electronic systems, including noise and linearity. Emphasis is placed on visualization and understanding of how and why electronic circuits of all frequencies are built and operate the way they do. Readers learn how to match an amplifier for optimum noise performance over the broadest bandwidth with the fewest number of elements and how to visualize the coupling of various modes in a mixed waveguide-type structure and avoid resonances due to trapped, higher-order modes. The book provides the tools needed to design and optimize a launcher from microstrip into waveguide, and whether the best characteristics can be achieved by incorporating matching elements in the microstrip section, the waveguide section, or both. Packed with references and examples, readers learn not only how to do the math but what the math means. Review Keep this next to your Pozar. Matt, and by extension this book, are the best kinds of teachers logical and clever, concise yet sufficient, able to reveal wonder and intuition behind the math. --Dr. Lisa S. Locke National Radio Astronomy Observatory This book is a timely and much needed modernization of the classic texts in the fields of electromagnetics, circuits, quasi-optics, antennas, nonlinear devices, etc. This book combines all these into a single book, and yet manages to cover these diverse topics with a useful depth. More importantly, the topics are linked and compared in meaningful and thought-provoking ways, and help the reader to gain a more holistic view of the field. This book is an important reference work for modern engineers using the array of powerful modern computer simulation tools, which can lead even top level designers astray without the intuition and guidance provided by Dr. Morgans book. A few topics that I found interesting and particularly useful were: The coverage of lumped elements and their placement in perspective with respect to distributed elements The detailed coverage of even-odd mode analysis, which is such a powerful tool in designing components. The summary of the state-of-the-art for transitions between various transmission line types was very useful, and is a topic which hasn t been so thoroughly considered for many years. Reading through this book reminded me of sifting through compendiums like Marcuvitz s Waveguide Handbook or Harvey s Microwave Engineering, that is, as a treasure chest of ideas to apply to the problem you are working on today. A careful reading of this book should be a prerequisite before allowing a new engineer loose on simulation software! --Jeffrey Hesler, CTO at Virginia Diodes Inc. This comprehensive resource provides a thorough introduction to the principles of electronic circuits operating in the radio, microwave, and millimeter-wave frequency ranges. The book highlights the fundamental physical laws of classical electromagnetics using a foundation of Maxwell's equations to give insight into the operating principles of circuit elements of all kinds, from lumped elements to transmission lines, waveguides, optical fibers, and quasi-optical structures. Standard passive system c