High Frequency Techniques: An Introduction to RF and Microwave Design and Computer Simulation

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 softwareResonators, Q definitions, and Q–based impedance matching Transmission lines, waves, VSWR, reflection phenomena, Fano’s reflection bandwidth limits, telegrapher, and impedance transformation equationsDevelopment and in–depth use of the Smith Chart Matrix algebra with Z, Y, ABCD, S, and T matrix applicationsAn unusually thorough introduction to electromagnetic field theory, step–by–step development of vector calculus, Maxwell’s equations, waveguides, propagation, and antennasBackward wave, branch line, rat race and Wilkinson couplers, impedance measurements, and detailed even and odd mode analysisFilter designs for Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel and elliptic responses, Kuroda’s identities, Richards’s transformation, and computer optimized designsTransistor 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.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction.
2. Review of Alternating Current Analysis and Network Simulation.
3. LC Resonance and Matching Networks .
4. Distributed Circuit Design.
5. The Smith Chart.
6. Matrix Analysis.
7. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.
8. Directional Couplers.
9. Filter Design.
10. Transistor Amplifier Design.
Appendix A: Symbols and Units.
Appendix B: Complex Mathematics.
Appendix C: Diameter and Resistance of Annealed Copper Wire by Gauge Size.
 Appendix D: Properties of Some Materials.
Appendix E: Standard Rectangular Waveguides.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Joseph F. White, PhD, is an instructor and consultant at JFW Industries, Inc. He has twenty–five years of design experience, was technical director at M/A–COM, Inc., and received the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society’s Application Award for "Contributions to Phased Array Antennas." He edited the Microwave Journal and Applied Microwave and Wireless magazines, wrote Microwave Semiconductor Engineering, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He can be reached at jfwhite@ieee.org.

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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 softwareResonators, Q definitions, and Q–based impedance matching Transmission lines, waves, VSWR, reflection phenomena, Fano’s reflection bandwidth limits, telegrapher, and impedance transformation equationsDevelopment and in–depth use of the Smith Chart Matrix algebra with Z, Y, ABCD, S, and T matrix applicationsAn unusually thorough introduction to electromagnetic field theory, step–by–step de velopment of vector calculus, Maxwell’s equations, waveguides, propagation, and antennasBackward wave, branch line, rat race and Wilkinson couplers, impedance measurements, and detailed even and odd mode analysisFilter designs for Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel and elliptic responses, Kuroda’s identities, Richards’s transformation, and computer optimized designsTransistor 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.