Microwave Electronic Devices
Published on 30. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 340 pages
978-0-412-48200-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with microwave electronics, that is to say those components of microwave circuits that generate, amplify, detect or modulate signals. It is based on a course given in the Electrical Engineering Department of Eindhoven University since 1985 and on about twenty years of experience in the microwave field. Somewhat to my surprise I found that there were hardly any textbooks that addressed the specific properties and demands of microwave devices, including vacuum devices and their interactions with circuits. Numerous books exist on semiconductor electronic devices, dealing in an excellent way with the basic device physics, but being somewhat brief on typical micro wave aspects. On the other hand there are also many books that concentrate on electromagnetic theory and passive circuits, treating devices without reference to the underlying physics. In between there are some entirely devoted to a particular device, for example, the GaAs MESFET. With regard to tubes the situation is even worse: books that treat the basic principles are usually quite old and modern books often concentrate on specific devices, like high power tubes. So it seems that there is room for a book like this one. Its aim is to provide an elementary understanding ofmicrowave electronic devices, both vacuum and semiconductor, on the one hand in relation to the basic physics underlying their operation and on the other in relation to their circuit applications.
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` This is solid underpinning knowledge for undergraduates supported by copious references and pointers to further reading. 'Electrotechnology
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XIV, 340 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-48200-7 (9780412482007)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-2500-4
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Content
1 History.- 1.1.- 1.2 Electron tubes.- 1.3 Semiconductors: passive devices.- 1.4 Semiconductors: active diodes.- 1.5 Microwave transistors.- 1.6 Microwave integrated circuits.- References.- 2 Vacuum electron devices.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Microwave triodes.- 2.3 The klystron.- 2.4 Traveling wave tubes.- 2.5 The magnetron.- 2.6 Tube technology.- 2.7 Vacuum microelectronics.- Appendix 2.A Ramo's theorem and transit-time effects.- Appendix 2.B Large-signal theory of the klystron.- Appendix 2.C Theory of the reflex klystron.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 3 Semiconductor materials.- 3.1 A very brief review of basic semiconductor physics.- 3.2 Important bulk material properties.- 3.3 Heterojunctions, quantum wells.- 3.4 Technology of III-V semiconductors.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 4 Carrier transport and noise in devices.- 4.1 Device models.- 4.2 Physical modeling.- 4.3 Equivalent network models.- 4.4 Noise.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 5 Diodes.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 p-n Junctions.- 5.3 Schottky diodes.- 5.4 Transferred electron diodes.- 5.5 Punch-through and bulk barrier diodes.- 5.6 Heterojunction and quantum well diodes.- 5.7 Superconducting diodes.- 5.8 Negative-resistance Diodes.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 6 Transistors.- 6.1 Silicon bipolar transistors.- 6.2 Heterojunction bipolar transistors.- 6.3 Field effect transistors: GaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistor.- 6.4 Field effect transistors: high electron mobility transistor.- 6.5 Noise of MESFETs and HEMTs.- 6.6 Field effect transistors: Si MOSFET.- 6.7 Other heterojunction FETs: MISFET and SISFET.- 6.8 Transistor packaging.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 7 Transmission lines and microwave circuits.- 7.1 Transmission line theory.-7.2 Microstrip lines.- 7.3 Other planar waveguides.- 7.4 Microwave networks.- 7.5 Microwave measurements.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 8 Detection, modulation and frequency conversion.- 8.1 Detection and mixing.- 8.2 Modulation, switching and control.- 8.3 Frequency multiplication.- References.- Further reading.- Problems.- 9 Amplifiers.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.3 Transmission amplifiers.- 9.4 Amplification and stability.- 9.5 Amplifier noise.- 9.6 Power amplifiers.- 9.7 Microwave masers.- References.- Further reading.- 10 Oscillators.- 10.1 Oscillator circuit theory.- 10.2 Stability.- 10.3 Modulation and noise.- 10.4 Resonators.- 10.5 Diode oscillators.- 10.6 Transistor oscillators.- References.- Further reading.- 11 Monolithic microwave integrated circuits.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Bipolar technologies.- 11.3 GaAs FET technologies.- 11.4 GaAs logic families.- 11.5 Superconductive technologies.- 11.6 Integrated circuit packaging.- References.- Further reading.