Microwave Electronics (The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series)

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.