High Frequency Techniques: An Introduction to RF and Microwave Engineering

✍ Scribed by Jody Hoffer Gittell

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 125
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A practical guide for today’s wireless engineer

High Frequency Techniques: An Introduction to RF and Microwave Engineering is a clearly written classical circuit and field theory text illustrated with modern computer simulation software. The book’s ten chapters cover:

• The origins and current uses of wireless transmission
• A review of AC analysis, Kirchhoff’s laws, RLC elements, skin effect, and introduction to the use of computer simulation software
• Resonators, Q definitions, and Q-based impedance matching
• Transmission lines, waves, VSWR, reflection phenomena, Fano’s reflection bandwidth limits, telegrapher, and impedance transformation equations
• Development and in-depth use of the Smith Chart
• Matrix algebra with Z, Y, ABCD, S, and T matrix applications
• An unusually thorough introduction to electromagnetic field theory, step-by-step development of vector calculus, Maxwell’s equations, waveguides, propagation, and antennas
• Backward wave, branch line, rat race and Wilkinson couplers, impedance measurements, and detailed even and odd mode analysis
• Filter designs for Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel and elliptic responses, Kuroda’s identities, Richards’s transformation, and computer optimized designs
• Transistor amplifier design using Unilateral Gain, Simultaneous Match, Available Gain and Operating Gain approaches, insuring stability, cascading stages, broadbanding, noise theory, and intermodulation effects

Using informal language, High Frequency Techniques takes the reader step-by- step through RF and microwave theory and design, providing a lasting practical reference for the practicing wireless engineer.

✦ Table of Contents

High Frecuency Techniques: An Introduction to RF and Microwave Engineering......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 18
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 24
1.1 BEGINNING OF WIRELESS......Page 26
1.2 CURRENT RADIO SPECTRUM......Page 29
1.3 CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS TEXT......Page 33
1.4 VECTORS AND COORDINATES......Page 36
1.5 GENERAL CONSTANTS AND USEFUL CONVERSIONS......Page 39
2.1 BASIC CIRCUIT ELEMENTS......Page 41
2.2 KIRCHHOFF’S LAWS......Page 47
2.3 ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC) ANALYSIS......Page 48
2.4 VOLTAGE AND CURRENT PHASORS......Page 51
2.5 IMPEDANCE......Page 53
2.6 ADMITTANCE......Page 55
2.8 DECIBELS, dBW, AND dBm......Page 58
2.9 POWER TRANSFER......Page 63
2.10 SPECIFYING LOSS......Page 65
2.11 REAL RLC MODELS......Page 69
2.12 DESIGNING LC ELEMENTS......Page 71
2.13 SKIN EFFECT......Page 76
2.14 NETWORK SIMULATION......Page 78
3.1 LC RESONANCE......Page 84
End Of Part 1......Page 0
3.2 SERIES CIRCUIT QUALITY FACTORS......Page 85
3.3 PARALLEL CIRCUIT QUALITY FACTORS......Page 87
3.4 COUPLED RESONATORS......Page 88
3.5 Q MATCHING......Page 92
4.1 TRANSMISSION LINES......Page 103
4.2 WAVELENGTH IN A DIELECTRIC......Page 106
4.3 PULSES ON TRANSMISSION LINES......Page 107
4.4 INCIDENT AND REFLECTED WAVES......Page 108
4.5 REFLECTION COEFFICIENT......Page 110
4.7 MISMATCH LOSS......Page 111
4.8 MISMATCH ERROR......Page 112
4.9 THE TELEGRAPHER EQUATIONS......Page 116
4.10 TRANSMISSION LINE WAVE EQUATIONS......Page 117
4.11 WAVE PROPAGATION......Page 119
4.12 PHASE AND GROUP VELOCITIES......Page 122
4.13 REFLECTION COEFFICIENT AND IMPEDANCE......Page 125