Foundations for Microwave Engineering

This text covers both passive and active microwave circuits. The text provides detailed coverage of microwave tubes, solid state microwave amplifier design using scattering matrices, parametric amplifiers, and solid state oscillators and mixers. The author emphasizes modern applications of microstrip and other planar transmission lines for the realization of passive and active circuits. There is a systematic design strategy developed for microwave amplifiers that allows input and output voltage standing wave ratios, low noise, optimum gain and stability to be taken into account. The concept of impedance mismatch invariance is introduced to aid the design of multi-state amplifiers using unstable devices. This traditionally difficult topic is simplified by the design methods introduced in the text.

Microwave Engineering / Foundations for Microwave Engineering Second Edition A Classic Reissue in the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory Donald G. Dudley, Series Editor

Foundations for Microwave Engineering, Second Edition, covers the major topics of microwave engineering. Its presentation defines the accepted standard for both advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on microwave engineering An essential reference book for the practicing microwave engineer, it features:

• Planar transmission lines, as well as an appendix that describes in detail conformal mapping methods for their analysis and attenuation characteristics.
• Small aperture coupling and its application in practical components such as directional couplers and cavity coupling.
• Printed circuit components with an emphasis on techniques such as even and odd mode analysis and the use of symmetry properties.
• Microwave linear amplifier and oscillator design using solid-state circuits such as varactor devices and transistors.

Foundations for Microwave Engineering, Second Edition, has extensive coverage of transmission lines, waveguides, microwave circuit theory, impedance matching, and cavity resonators. It devotes an entire chapter to fundamental microwave tubes, as well as other chapters on periodic structures, microwave filters, small signal solid-state microwave amplifier and oscillator design, and negative resistance devices and circuits. Completely updated in 1992, it is being reissued by the IEEE Press in response to requests from our many members, who found it an invaluable textbook and an enduring reference for practicing microwave engineers.

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