RF and Microwave Filters Handbook provides a complete design workflow for design filters that solve real problems in RF, microwave, and power systems. It details how to translate requirements into working circuits, demonstrating what can be built with real components, while avoiding costly, wasted iterations. This guide establishes a strong foundation in transfer functions, impedance, gain, and Bode plots, then provides practical tests for realizability that prevent hours lost on impossible designs.
The book systematically covers the three major low-pass prototypes-Butterworth, Chebyshev, and elliptic-then details the standard transformations for deriving high-pass and band-pass responses. Design of active low-pass and high-pass filters using op-amps, resistors, and capacitors is explained with working formulas, including Sallen and Key and inverting/noninverting topologies. This text also covers Bessel-Thomson filters for flat group delay and transient response. Gain command of both frequency-domain and time-domain analysis tools, including SPICE simulations, and access complete tables of component values for singly and doubly loaded networks across multiple filter families.
This is an indispensable reference for electrical engineers, RF circuit designers, and advanced students who need first-pass success in filter design. Get immediate solutions to real-world problems in RF power amplifier design, EMI suppression, and power converter filtering through coverage of synthesis methods, LC and lattice filters, attenuator pads, bridged-T filters, and universal switched-capacitor filters. This crucial reference equips professionals to achieve accurate and efficient filter designs, saving significant time and costs in the development cycle.
Thomas M. Scott earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1953 and worked at RCA Laboratories on early color TV broadcast systems and the first transistor radios. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1962, he joined the faculty at Iowa State University, where he taught for nearly three decades, originated courses in information theory, error-correcting codes, and analog filter design, and twice received Professor of the Year honors. He was the first at ISU to teach SPICE for circuit analysis, contributed to advances in digital compression and coding methods, and in retirement continued to support students through textbooks, solution manuals, and simulation tools.
