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.

1. A system introduction to microwave electronics; 2. Passive elements and circuit layout; 3. CAD techniques; 4. Directional couplers and power dividers; 5. Active RF and microwave semiconductor devices; 6. Microwave linear amplifiers; 7. Low-noise amplifier design; 8. Power amplifiers; 9. Microwave measurements; 10. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) projects.

Giovanni Ghione is Full Professor in Electronics at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has authored or co-authored several books, including Semiconductor Devices for High-Speed Optoelectronics (Cambridge, 2009), and is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
Marco Pirola is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he coordinates the Microwave Laboratory.