Introduction to RF and microwave passive components / Richard Wallace, Krister Andreasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Richard (Telecommunication engineer), author.

Andreasson, Krister, author.

Series:

Artech House microwave library.

Artech House microwave library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microwave devices.

Radio frequency.

Passive components.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2015]

Place of Publication:

Boston : Artech House, [2015]

Summary:

This authoritative new resource provides an overview and introduction to working with RF, microwave, and high frequency components. From transmission lines, antennas, millimeter waves, ferrites, hybrids, power dividers and filters, this book focuses on practical, time-to-market issues to help with projects in the field. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, this comprehensive volume is packed with over 700 illustrations that help clarify key concepts. The reader will gain an in-depth understanding of the special characteristics exploited in microwave and high frequency design. The book is also used in industrial training courses. Course information is available at www.wallace.se.

Contents:

Introduction to RF and Microwave Passive Components

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 MICROWAVE-FREQUENCY BAND

1.1.1 Electromagnetic Spectrum Divisions

1.1.2 Advantages with Microwaves

1.1.3 Radio Frequency Region

1.1.4 2-GHz Threshold

1.2 APPLICATIONS

1.2.1 Radar

1.2.2 Radio Link

1.2.3 Satellite TV

1.2.4 Wireless Data Networks

1.2.5 Mobile Telephones

1.2.6 Heating and Drying

1.2.7 RFID

1.2.8 Car Tolls

1.2.9 GPS

1.2.10 Navigation for Cars

1.2.11 Police Radar

1.2.12 Fixed Wireless Access

1.2.13 Motion Detector

1.2.14 Material Measurement

1.2.15 ISM-Bands

Chapter 2 Transmission Lines

2.1 INTRODUCTION

2.2 REFLECTION

2.2.1 Equivalent Circuit of Transmission

2.2.2 DC Voltage

2.2.3 High-Frequency AC Voltage

2.2.4 Transmission Line Characteristic I

2.2.5 Matching

2.2.6 Mismatch

2.2.7 Insertion Loss

2.2.8 Typical Component Reflection Value

2.2.9 Reflection Factor Expressed as Imp

2.2.10 Standing Wave Ratio Expressed as

2.2.11 Total Reflection

2.2.12 Impedance Transformation

2.2.13 Multiple Reflections

2.3 SMITH DIAGRAM

2.3.1 Reflection Factor

2.3.2 Resistance

2.3.3 Impedance

2.3.4 Varying Reactance

2.3.5 Varying Frequency

2.3.6 Movement Along a Transmission Line

2.3.7 Matching

2.3.8 Admittance

2.4 WAVEGUIDES

2.4.1 General

2.4.2 Electromagnetic Wave

2.4.3 Reflection From a Metal Plane

2.4.4 Boundary Conditions

2.4.5 Field at the Metal Plane

2.4.6 Rectangular Waveguide

2.4.7 Waveguide Dimensioning

2.4.8 Wave Nomenclature Classification

2.4.9 Current in the Waveguide Structure

2.4.10 Double-Ridge Waveguide

2.4.11 Transition Between Waveguide and

2.4.12 Flanges

2.4.13 Horn

2.4.14 Reactance

2.4.15 Attenuators and Phase Shifters

2.4.16 Reactive Attenuator.

2.4.17 Terminator

2.4.18 Magic-T

2.5 WIRE PAIRS

2.6 COAXIAL CABLES

2.6.1 Inner Conductor

2.6.2 Dielectric

2.6.3 Outer Conductor

2.6.4 Impedance

2.6.5 Higher Modes

2.6.6 Delay

2.6.7 Isolation

2.6.8 Attenuation

2.7 COAXIAL CONNECTORS

2.7.1 Components and Systems

2.7.2 SMA Clamp Connectors

2.7.3 Measurements

2.7.4 7/16 Connector

2.7.5 Millimeter Waves

2.7.6 Combining Various Connectors

2.8 PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES

2.8.1 Microstrip

2.8.2 Aluminum Oxide

2.8.3 Teflon

2.8.4 Conductors and Ground Planes

2.8.5 High Power

2.8.6 Field Patterns

2.8.7 Radiation

2.8.8 Impedance

2.8.9 Advantages

2.8.10 Stripline

2.8.11 Comparison

2.8.12 LTCC

2.9 SUMMARY

Chapter 3 Antennas

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 THEORY

3.2.1 Power Density

3.2.2 Spherical Propagation

3.2.3 Directional Radiation

3.3 ANTENNA RADIATOR

3.3.1 Half-Wave Dipole

3.3.2 Dipole as a Resonator

3.3.3 Thick Dipole

3.3.4 Folded Dipole

3.3.5 Near Field

3.3.6 Polarization

3.3.7 Radiation Diagram

3.3.8 Omni-Directional Antennas

3.3.9 Yagi-Uda Antenna

3.3.10 Ground Plane Dipole (Monopole)

3.3.11 End Capacitance

3.4 PATCH ANTENNA

3.4.1 Microstrip Antenna

3.4.2 Aperture Coupling

3.4.3 Patches in Several Layers

3.5 ARRAY

3.5.1 Two Antennas Fed In-Phase, Distanc

3.5.2 Two Antennas Fed in Anti-Phase, Di

3.5.3 Two Antennas Fed in 90° Out-of-Phase, Distance d/4

3.5.4 Multiple Antenna Combined In-Phase

3.5.5 Array with Reflector

3.5.6 Endfire Beam Array

3.5.7 Quadratic Array

3.5.8 Elements with High Directivity

3.5.9 Amplitude Weighting

3.6 FEEDING NETWORK

3.6.1 Corporate Feeding

3.6.2 Series Feeding

3.6.3 Traveling-Wave Array

3.6.4 Combined Feeding

3.6.5 Doppler Navigation

3.7 BROADBAND ANTENNAS.

3.7.1 Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna

3.7.2 Coplanar LPD

3.7.3 Pyramidal LPD

3.7.4 Planar LPD

3.7.5 Right Angle Coplanar LPD

3.7.6 Spiral Antenna

3.7.7 Reflecting Cavity

3.7.8 Impedance

3.7.9 Archimedean Spiral

3.7.10 Equiangular Spiral

3.7.11 Conical Spiral

3.8 REFLECTOR ANTENNAS

3.8.1 Antenna Diagram

3.8.2 Various Antenna Feeding Placements

3.8.3 Size of the Reflector

3.8.4 Illumination

3.8.5 Beamwidth and Gain Correlation

3.8.6 Gain and Beamwidth for a Normal Pa

3.8.7 Various Parabolic Antennas

3.8.8 Subreflector

3.8.9 Partial Section of a Parabolic Ref

3.8.10 Horn Reflector

3.9 COMPARISON

3.9.1 Sum / Difference Coupling

3.10 SUMMARY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 4 Millimeter Waves

4.1 MILLIMETER WAVE REGION

4.1.1 Attenuation in the Atmosphere

4.1.2 Noise

4.1.3 Waveguide Bands

4.2 APPLICATIONS

4.2.1 Small Antennas with Narrow Lobes

4.2.2 Large Bandwidth

4.2.3 Doppler

4.2.4 Radiometry

4.2.5 38 GHz Link

4.2.6 WLAN

4.2.7 Homing Missiles

4.2.8 TV Distribution

4.2.9 Short-Distance Communication

4.2.10 Distance Measurement

4.2.11 Speedometer

4.2.12 Car Radar

4.3 TRANSMISSION GUIDES

4.3.1 Waveguides

4.3.2 Dielectric Waveguide

4.3.3 Image Guide

4.3.4 Insular Guide

4.3.5 Nonradiative Dielectric (NRD) Wave

4.3.6 Insert Dielectric Guide (IDG)

4.3.7 Microstrip

4.3.8 Suspended Substrate Stripline

4.3.9 Coplanar Lines

4.3.10 Slotline

4.3.11 Fin-Line

4.3.12 E-Plane Circuits

4.4 SUMMARY

Chapter 5 Ferrites

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.1.1 Isolator

5.1.2 Circulator

5.1.3 Transmitter and Receiver Switch

5.1.4 Phase Shifter

5.1.5 Ferrite Switch

5.1.6 YIG Filter

5.2 THEORY

5.2.1 An Atom's Magnetic Moment

5.2.2 Different Magnetic Materials.

5.2.3 Diamagnetic

5.2.4 Paramagnetic

5.2.5 Ferromagnetic

5.2.6 Anti-Ferromagnetic

5.2.7 Ferrimagnetic

5.2.8 Ferrite Crystals

5.2.9 Gyro Magnetic Resonance

5.2.10 Electromagnetic Wave in Ferrite

5.2.11 Low Field Loss

5.2.12 Resonance Loss

5.2.13 Electromagnetic Wave in Ferrite w

5.2.14 Resonance Peak

5.2.15 Below Resonance

5.2.16 Above Resonance

5.2.17 Faraday Rotation

5.3 ISOLATOR

5.3.1 Faraday Isolator

5.3.2 Resonance Isolator

5.3.3 Field Displacement Isolator

5.4 CIRCULATOR

5.4.1 Y-Circulator

5.4.2 Discrete Miniature Circulator

5.4.3 Y-Circulator in a Waveguide

5.4.4 Circulator with Fixed Phase Shifte

5.4.5 Comparison

5.5 FERRITE SWITCH

5.6 PHASE SHIFTER

5.7 YIG FILTER

5.7.1 Function

5.7.2 Q-Value and Bandwidth

5.7.3 Frequency Region

5.7.4 Millimeter-Wave

5.7.5 Temperature Dependence

5.7.6 Settling Time

5.7.7 FM-Coil

5.7.8 Balanced Loop

5.7.9 Selectivity

5.7.10 Closed-Loop Adjustment

5.7.11 Notch Filter

5.8 SUMMARY

Chapter 6 Hybrids

6.1 RAT RACE

6.1.1 Power Division

6.1.2 Bandwidth

6.1.3 Slotline Ring

6.2 BRANCH LINE

6.2.1 Phase Relation

6.2.2 Coupling

6.2.3 Impedance Transformation

6.2.4 Coupler with Several Sections

6.2.5 Double Center Line

6.2.6 Larger Bandwidth

6.2.7 Extremely Wide Lines

6.2.8 Extremely Narrow Lines

6.3 BACKWARD COUPLER

6.3.1 Phase Shifting

6.3.2 Amplitude Variation

6.4 WIDEBAND DIRECTIONAL COUPLER

6.4.1 In-Line Coupling

6.4.2 Tandem Coupling

6.4.3 Comparison Between In-Line and Tan

6.4.4 Asymmetrical Coupler

6.4.5 Nonuniform Directional Coupler

6.5 COMPENSATION OF PHASE VELOCITIES

6.5.1 Odd and Even Modes

6.5.2 Dielectric Sheet

6.5.3 Compensating with Double Substrate

6.5.4 Capacitance in the Ground Plane.

6.5.5 Podell Coupler

6.5.6 Capacitive Compensation

6.5.7 Meander Coupling

6.6 MICROSTRIP WITH 3-DB COUPLING

6.6.1 Broadside Coupling

6.6.2 Vertical Laminate

6.6.3 Lange Coupler

6.6.4 Tandem Coupler

6.6.5 Strip/Slot Coupler

6.6.6 Re-Entrant

6.6.7 Slot Coupling Through Intermediate

6.7 HYBRID FOR CROSSING LINES

6.8 COMPARISON

6.8.1 Partial Overlapped Lines

6.8.2 Comparison Between Different Coupl

6.9 180° HYBRID

6.9.1 Schiffman

6.9.2 Cascading

6.9.3 Asymmetric Nonuniform Coupler

6.9.4 Reflection from 90 Hybrid and 180

6.10 REDUCED LINE LENGTHS

6.10.1 Branch Line

6.10.2 Rat Race

6.10.3 Open Stubs

6.11 DISCRETE COMPONENTS

6.11.1 Branch Line

6.11.2 Rat Race

6.11.3 Back Wave Coupler

6.11.4 Phase Shifting Net

6.12 RF HYBRIDS

6.12.1 Wireline

6.12.2 Transformer as a 180 Hybrid

6.12.3 Directional Coupler with Transfor

6.13 SPECIFICATIONS

6.13.1 Directional Coupler

6.13.2 Hybrid

6.13.3 Power Divider

6.14 APPLICATIONS

6.14.1 Transmitter Testing

6.14.2 Receiver Testing

6.14.3 Reflection Coupling with a 90 Hy

6.14.4 Balance Detector

6.14.5 Reflection Amplifier

6.14.6 Phase Shifter

6.14.7 Attenuator

6.14.8 Parallel Coupling with Two 90 Hy

6.14.9 Balanced Amplifier

6.14.10 Balanced Mixer

6.14.11 Double-Balanced Mixer

6.15 SUMMARY

Chapter 7 Power Dividers

7.1 VARIOUS CIRCUIT DESIGNS

7.1.1 Resistive Power Divider

7.1.2 T-Junction

7.1.3 Reactive Power Divider

7.1.4 Wilkinson Power Divider

7.1.5 Several Combined Sections of the W

7.1.6 Wilkinson with Different Power Div

7.1.7 Continuously Decreasing Wilkinson

7.1.8 Comparison Between Wilkinson and a

7.1.9 Division with Different Phase

7.1.10 Three Outputs

7.1.11 Several Outputs

7.1.12 Millimeter Wave.

7.1.13 Parallel and Series Line Division.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical reference at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63081-009-6