Practical Radio-Frequency Handbook

✍ Scribed by Hickman I.

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New sections and major updates in the third edition include: RF ICs, DBMs, SAW filters, integrated power amplifier modules, active arrays, use of network analysers, and a completely new chapter on digital filtering.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Passive components......Page 13
Passive circuits......Page 23
RF transmission lines......Page 31
RF transformers......Page 44
Couplers, hybrids and directional couplers......Page 61
Active components for RF uses......Page 70
RF small-signal circuitry......Page 88
Modulation and demodulation......Page 99
Oscillators......Page 117
RF power amplifiers......Page 142
Transmitters and receivers......Page 168
Advanced architectures......Page 183
Propagation......Page 193
Antennas......Page 204
Attenuators and equalizers......Page 221
Measurements......Page 226
Useful relationships......Page 235
S-Parameters......Page 241
Attenuators (pads)......Page 244
Universal resonance curve......Page 246
RF cables......Page 247
Wire gauges and related information......Page 251
and iron-powder** cores......Page 254
Types of modulation – classification......Page 255
Quartz crystals......Page 257
Elliptic filters......Page 259
Screening......Page 270
Worldwide minimum external noise levels......Page 279
Frequency allocations and designations......Page 282
SRDs (Short Range Devices)......Page 286
Index......Page 289