Microwave Transistor Amplifiers: Analysis and Design (2nd Edition)

A unified presentation of the analysis and design of microwave transistor amplifiers (and oscillators) — using scattering parameters techniques. KEY FEATURES: Presents material on: transmission-lines concepts; power waves and generalized scattering parameters; measurements of scattering parameters; bipolar and field-effect transistors; power gain expressions; constant VSWR circles; gain, noise, and VSWR design trade offs; broadband amplifiers, high-power amplifiers; oscillator

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Bible for LNA design

By Kaushik Lodh - July 21, 2006

I am a Principal RF Engineer/ Program Manager, with a graduate degree in the field of RF / Microwave and more than a decade of experience working with it.

There are some books which are classics, pozar for basic microwave, Gerd Kaiser for basic optic fibers, balanis and K D Prasad for antennas, matthaei- young-jones for filters, Steve cripps for Power amplifiers and Guilermo Gonzales for low noise amplifiers.

This book treats the whole concept of desinging low noise amplifiers in a very comprehensive manner. It starts off by describing and establishing a understanding of the basics, such as S parameters, smith charts,etc. It doesnt assume anything, but strives to teach right from the begining. So it is a great reference book.

Then it progessively teaches you the various steps of amplifier design, right from determining the stability considerations, design as per gain, VSWR, noise figure etc. Each successive design is more complex than the previous, and... read more

0-Ghz in the most clear manner you will find.

By David Hunter - April 1, 2002

One phrase that some use to describe this text, "Alot of smith-charts."
The mass behind this book starts at the absolute foundations of RF circuits. Reflections, scatter parameters, device modeling. Everything you started to touch that last term of electronic analysis is picked up here. Once you've completed the refresher, you're strapped in to a seat with a good, consistant rhythm of material. The material is quite overwhelming initially, but as long as you work through things in a linear manner you'll find the material quite simple. Once you've completed with this text, it doubles as a great reference text for your future endevors when working with RF circuits.

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By Antony Wangsanata - January 21, 2001

I used this textbook when I took an undergraduate course in RF engineering. Currently, I am a graduate student in microwave engineering close to graduation. I have read many RF and EM books and by far this book is one of the best. Many textbooks provide lots of theories, equations and derivations, but few took the time to provide a lot of examples and for me examples is the easiest and fastest way to learn.This text provides a GREAT amount of examples on how to build amplifiers with discrete components and show how to do it exactly in actual planar circuits (microstrip circuits.) From biasing, stability, simultaneous matching, to low noise amplifier design is covered. This book is also happen to be one of the few books that also include bilateral amplifier design techniques. Most other microwave amplifier books only consider unilateral techniques.The last chapter is devoted to microwave frequency oscillator design technique including one and two port negative resistance and... read more