High-Frequency Circuit Design and Measurements
An elective course in the final-year BEng progamme in electronic engin eering in the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong was generated in response to the growing need of local industry for graduate engineers capable of designing circuits and performing measurements at high frequencies up to a few gigaher...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Trends in electronic circuits and systems
- 1.2 High-frequency circuits
- 1.3 Examples of high-frequency systems
- Further reading
- 2 Transmission-line Theory and Microstrips
- 2.1 Transmission lines in high-frequency circuits
- 2.2 Transmission-line parameters
- 2.3 Terminated transmission line
- 2.4 Terminated lossy line
- 2.5 Smith chart
- 2.6 Microstrip as a transmission line
- 2.7 An example of the application of microstrip
- 2.8 Static TEM parameters
- 2.9 Formulae for the synthesis and analysis of microstrips
- 2.10 Frequency dependence of ?eff
- 2.11 Effect of finite strip thickness and metallic enclosure
- 2.12 Fabrication of microstrips
- Problems
- Further reading
- 3 s-parameters
- 3.1 Network characterization
- 3.2 Scattering parameters
- 3.3 Measurement of s-parameters
- 3.4 s-parameters and signal flow graphs
- Problems
- Further reading
- 4 Impedance Matching
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Concept of operating Q-factor
- 4.3 Two-element L network
- 4.4 Three-element matching
- 4.5 Designing with the Smith chart
- 4.6 Transmission-line matching network
- Problems
- Further reading
- 5 Transistors at High Frequencies
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Transistor equivalent circuit
- 5.3 Input impedance
- 5.4 Output impedance
- 5.5 Gain
- 5.6 Feedback
- 5.7 Small-signal two-port parameters
- 5.8 Understanding high-frequency transistor data sheets
- 5.9 Biasing of high-frequency transistors
- Problems
- Further reading
- 6 Small-signal Amplifier Design
- 6.1 Characterization of high-frequency amplifiers
- 6.2 Power gain
- 6.3 Unilateral amplifier design
- 6.4 Non-unilateral amplifier design
- 6.5 Stability criteria
- 6.6 Load and source stability circles
- 6.7 Constant power gain circles
- 6.8 Low-noise amplifier design
- 6.9 Broadbandconsiderations
- 6.10 Summary of design procedures
- Problems
- Further reading
- 7 Power Amplifiers
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Biasing of power transistors
- 7.3 Power transistor design data
- 7.4 Power amplifier design
- Problems
- Further reading
- 8 Oscillators
- 8.1 General overview of oscillator design
- 8.2 Conversion of the s-matrix
- 8.3 Theory of oscillation
- 8.4 Oscillator design
- 8.5 Summary of design procedures
- Problems
- Further reading
- 9 The Spectrum Analyser and its Applications
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Operating principle of a spectrum analyser
- 9.3 Characteristics of a spectrum analyser
- 9.4 Tracking generator
- 9.5 Applications of spectrum analysers
- Problems
- Further reading
- 10 Microwave Frequency Counting
- 10.1 Basics of digital frequency counters
- 10.2 Microwave frequency counting
- 10.3 Performance of down-converted frequency counters
- Problems
- Further reading
- 11 Noise Measurement
- 11.1 Noise and noise figure
- 11.2 Effective input noise temperature
- 11.3 Measurement of noise
- 11.4 Noise source
- 11.5 Noise-figure measurement (single frequency)
- 11.6 Wide-band noise-figure measurement
- 11.7 Noise-figure measurement at microwave frequencies
- 11.8 Single-sideband and double-sideband measurements
- 11.9 Summary
- Problems
- Further reading
- 12 Swept Measurements and Network Analysers
- 12.1 Network analysis
- 12.2 Signal source for swept measurements
- 12.3 Vector or scalar measurement?
- 12.4 Scalar network analysis
- 12.5 Other scalar network-analyser systems
- 12.6 Vector network analyser
- 12.7 Source synchronization
- 12.8 Power-splitter circuit
- Problems
- Further reading