Microwave Devices, Circuits and Subsystems for Communications Engineering

Dr. Ian A Glover is a Senior Lecturer. Research interests: radio science, microwave radio propagation, channel measure ments and modelling, and digital communications coding and modulation. He is co-author of the successful book Digital Communications. Dr. Steve R. Pennock is a Senior Lecturer. Research interests: microwave engineering and communications, inset dielectric guide antennas and subsystems, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, flared slot antennas, discontinuities and non-uniformities in transmission lines and millimetre wave propagation effects. Dr. Peter R. Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer and First Year Course Director. Research interests: microwave engineering and communications, inset dielectric guide antennas and subsystems, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, flared slot antennas, discontinuities and non-uniformities in transmission lines, millimetre wave propagation effects, and mixed signal integrated circuits

• List of Contributors xvPreface xvii1 Overview 1I. A. Glover, S. R. Pennock and P. R. Shepherd1.1 Introduction 11.2 RF Devices 21.3 Signal Transmission and Network Methods 41.4 Amplifiers 51.5 Mixers 61.6 Filters 71.7 Oscillators and Frequency Synthesisers 72 RF Devices: Characteristics and Modelling 9A. Suarez and T. Fernandez2.1 Introduction 92.2 Semiconductor Properties 102.3 P-N Junction 182.4 The Schottky Diode 322.5 PIN Diodes 402.6 Step-Recovery Diodes 512.7 Gunn Diodes 522.8 IMPATT Diodes 592.9 Transistors 652.10 Problems 883 Signal Transmission, Network Methods and Impedance Matching 91N. J. McEwan, T. C. Edwards, D. Dernikas and I. A. Glover3.1 Introduction 913.2 Transmission Lines: General Considerations 923.3 The Two-Conductor Transmission Line: Revision of Distributed Circuit Theory 953.4 Loss, Dispersion, Phase and Group Velocity 993.5 Field Theory Method for Ideal TEM Case 1133.6 Microstrip 1263.7 Coupled Microstrip Lines 1483.8 Network Methods 1633.9 Impedance Matching 1763.10 Network Analysers 1953.11 Summary 2074 Amplifier Design 209N. J. McEwan and D. Dernikas4.1 Introduction 2094.2 Amplifier Gain Definitions 2094.3 Stability 2234.4 Broadband Amplifier Design 2394.5 Low Noise Amplifier Design 2464.6 Practical Circuit Considerations 2564.7 Computer Aided Design (CAD) 2905 Mixers: Theory and Design 311L. de la Fuente and A. Tazon5.1 Introduction 3115.2 General Properties 3115.3 Devices for Mixers 3135.4 Non-Linear Analysis 3225.5 Diode Mixer Theory 3315.6 FET Mixers 3415.7 Double–Gate FET Mixers 3495.8 Single-Balanced FET Mixers 3585.9 Double-Balanced FET Mixers 3595.10 Harmonic Mixers 3605.11 Monolithic Mixers 3646 Filters 379A. Mediavilla6.1 Introduction 3796.2 Filter Fundamentals 3796.3 Mathematical Filter Responses 3856.4 Low Pass Prototype Filter Design 3936.5 Filter Impedance and Frequency Scaling 4056.6 Elliptic Filter Transformation 4236.7 Filter Normalisation 4297 Oscillators, Frequency Synthesisers and PLL Techniques 461E. Artal, J. P. Pascual and J. Portilla7.1 Introduction 4617.2 Solid State Microwave Oscillators 4617.3 Negative Resistance Diode Oscillators 4677.4 Transistor Oscillators 4697.5 Voltage-Controlled Oscillators 4817.6 Oscillator Characterisation and Testing 4847.7 Microwave Phase Locked Oscillators 4897.8 Subsystems for Microwave Phase Locked Oscillators (PLOs) 4937.9 Phase Noise 5097.10 Examples of PLOs 514References 518Index 519

"... this book is a good reference for [the] microwave engineering community." (IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, November/December 2006)