Broadband RF and Microwave Amplifiers

Description

Broadband RF and Microwave Amplifiers provides extensive coverage of broadband radio frequency (RF) and microwave power amplifier design, including well-known historical and recent novel schematic configurations, theoretical approaches, circuit simulation results, and practical implementation strategies. The text begins by introducing two-port networks to illustrate the behavior of linear and nonlinear circuits, explaining the basic principles of power amplifier design, and discussing impedance matching and broadband power amplifier design using lumped and distributed parameters. The book then:

• Shows how dissipative or lossy gain-compensation-matching circuits can offer an important trade-off between power gain, reflection coefficient, and operating frequency bandwidth
• Describes the design of broadband RF and microwave amplifiers using real frequency techniques (RFTs), supplying numerous examples based on the MATLAB® programming process
• Examines Class-E power amplifiers, Doherty amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, microwave gallium arsenide field-effect transistor (GaAs FET)-distributed amplifiers, and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) amplifiers for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications

Broadband RF and Microwave Amplifiers combines theoretical analysis with practical design to create a solid foundation for innovative ideas and circuit design techniques.

Table of Contents

1. Two-Port Network Parameters
   1. Traditional Network Parameters
   2. Scattering Parameters
   3. Conversions between Two-Port Parameters
   4. Interconnections of Two-Port Networks
   5. Practical Two-Port Networks
   6. Three-Port Network with Common Terminal
   7. Lumped Elements
   8. Transmission Line
   9. Noise Figure
   10. References
2. Power Amplifier Design Principles
   1. Basic Classes of Operation: A, AB, B, and C
   2. Load Line and Output Impedance
   3. Nonlinear Active Device Models
   4. Power Gain and Stability
   5. Push–Pull and Balanced Power Amplifiers
   6. Transmission-Line Transformers and Combiners
   7. References
3. Lossless Matched Broadband Power Amplifiers
   1. Impedance Matching
   2. Bode–Fano Criterion
   3. Broadband-Matching Networks with Lumped Elements
   4. Broadband-Matching Networks with Mixed Lumped and Distributed Elements
   5. Matching Networks with Transmission Lines
   6. Matching Technique with Prescribed Amplitude–Frequency Response
   7. Practical Examples of Broadband RF and Microwave Power Amplifiers
   8. Broadband Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers
   9. References
4. Lossy Matched and Feedback Broadband Power Amplifiers
   1. Amplifiers with Lossy Compensation Networks
   2. Feedback Amplifiers
   3. Graphical Design of Gain-Compensating and Feedback Lossy Networks
   4. Decomposition Synthesis Method
   5. References
5. Design of Wideband RF and Microwave Amplifiers Employing Real Frequency Techniques
   1. Real Frequency Line Segment Technique
   2. Generation of Minimum Immittance Function from Its Real Part
   3. Optimization of TPG Using a Parametric Approach
   4. High-Precision Ladder Synthesis of Positive Real Functions
   5. Automated Real Frequency Design of Lossless Two-Ports for Single Matching Problems
   6. Computation of Actual Elements
   7. Automated Design of Matching Networks with Lumped Elements
   8. Design of Interstage Equalizers: Double Matching Problem
   9. Matching Networks Constructed with Commensurate Transmission Lines
   10. Generation of Realizable Positive Real Function in Richards’s Domain
   11. Integration of Richards’s High-Precision Synthesis Module with Real Frequency Matching Algorithm
   12. SRFTs to Design RF and Microwave Amplifiers
   13. SRFT to Design Microwave Amplifiers
   14. SRFT Single-Stage Microwave Amplifier Design Algorithm
   15. Design of an Ultra-Wideband Microwave Amplifier Using Commensurate Transmission Lines
   16. Physical Realization of Characteristic Impedance
   17. Practical Design of Matching Networks with Mixed Lumped and Distributed Elements
   18. Physical Realization of a Single Inductor
   19. Appendices
   20. References
6. High-Efficiency Broadband Class-E Power Amplifiers
   1. Reactance Compensation Technique
   2. High-Efficiency Switching Class-E Modes
   3. Broadband Class E with Shunt Capacitance
   4. Broadband Parallel-Circuit Class E
   5. High-Power RF Class-E Power Amplifiers
   6. Microwave Monolithic Class-E Power Amplifiers
   7. CMOS Class-E Power Amplifiers
   8. References
7. Broadband and Multiband Doherty Amplifiers
   1. Historical Aspect and Conventional Doherty Architectures
   2. Inverted Doherty Amplifiers
   3. Integration
   4. Digitally-Driven Doherty Amplifier
   5. Multiband and Broadband Capability
   6. References
8. Low-Noise Broadband Amplifiers
   1. Basic Principles of Low-Noise Amplifier Design
   2. Lossless Matched Broadband Low-Noise Amplifiers
   3. Lossy Feedback Broadband Low-Noise Amplifiers
   4. Cascode Broadband Low-Noise Amplifiers
   5. Graphical Design Technique
   6. Broadband Millimeter-Wave Low-Noise Amplifiers
   7. References
9. Distributed Amplifiers
   1. Basic Principles of Distributed Amplification
   2. Microwave GaAs FET Distributed Amplifiers
   3. Cascode Distributed Amplifiers
   4. Extended Resonance Technique
   5. Cascaded Distributed Amplifiers
   6. Matrix Distributed Amplifiers
   7. CMOS Distributed Amplifiers
   8. Noise in Distributed Amplifiers
   9. References
10. CMOS Amplifiers for UWB Applications
    1. UWB Transceiver Architectures
    2. Distributed CMOS Amplifiers
    3. Common-Gate CMOS Amplifiers
    4. CMOS Amplifiers with Lossy Compensation Circuits
    5. Feedback CMOS Amplifiers
    6. Noise-Canceling Technique
    7. References

Author(s) Description

Andrei Grebennikov earned his engineering diploma in radio electronics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, and his Ph.D in radio engineering from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Russia.

Narendra Kumar earned his Ph.D in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He worked in R&D at Motorola Solutions, USA, as a principal staff engineer. He has several U.S. patents, all assigned to Motorola Solutions, in the area of radio frequency (RF) and microwave amplifier circuitry. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Binboga S. Yarman earned his Ph.D from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He was a Microwave Technology Center technical staff member at the David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, New Jersey, USA;