Microwave electronics / Giovanni Ghione, Marco Pirola.

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A system introduction to microwave electronics -- Passive elements and circuit layout -- CAD techniques -- Directional couplers and power dividers -- Active RF and microwave semiconductor devices -- Microwave linear amplifiers -- Low-noise amplifier design -- Power amplifiers -- Microwave measurement -- Computer-Aided Design (CAD) projects.

Drawing on over twenty years of teaching experience, this comprehensive yet self-contained text provides an in-depth introduction to the field of integrated microwave electronics. Ideal for a first course on the subject, it covers essential topics such as passive components and transistors, linear, low-noise and power amplifiers, and microwave measurements. An entire chapter is devoted to CAD techniques for analysis and design, covering examples of easy-to-medium difficulty for both linear and non-linear subsystems, and supported online by ADS and AWR project files. More advanced topics are also covered, providing an up-to-date overview of compound semiconductor technologies and treatment of electromagnetic issues and models. Readers can test their knowledge with end-of-chapter questions and numerical problems, and solutions and lecture slides are available online for instructors. This is essential reading for graduate and senior undergraduate students taking courses in microwave, radio-frequency and high-frequency electronics, as well as professional microwave engineers.