Designing Microwave Circuits By Exact Synthesis Book

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Microwave Circuit Design by Synthesis: A Universal Procedure	7
2.1	Outline of the Classical, Nonsynthesis Design Approach	7
2.2	Outline of the Universal Design Procedure Based on Exact Synthesis	10
2.3	The Prototype Network Synthesis Procedures	18
2.4	Network Manipulation and Transformation	79
2.5	Conversion of Prototypes to Physical Structures	95
2.6	A Practical Review of the Design Procedure	124
2.7	Availability of Software	138
Ch. 3	Synthesis of High-Selectivity Printed Circuit Band-Pass Filters	153
3.1	Commensurate Line Filters From High-Pass S-Plane Prototypes	154
3.2	Noncommensurate Line Filters From Band-Pass S-Plane Prototypes	180
Ch. 4	Other Specialized Passive Components	191
4.1	Wideband Bias Ts	191
4.2	Wideband Balun Structures	202
4.3	Some Simple Impedance-Transforming Networks	222
Ch. 5	Active Circuit Design	235
5.1	Principles of Matching Into Complex Terminations	236
5.2	Distributed Amplifiers	242
5.3	Reactively Matched Wideband Power Amplifiers	273
5.4	Traveling-Wave Matching in Cascadable Amplifier Gain Stages	290
5.5	A Two-Stage Amplifier with Interstage Matching	311
5.6	A Five-Stage, 1.5W Amplifier MMIC With >25 dB Gain	317
	Summary and Conclusions	325
	Appendix A: Some Useful Network Transformations	327
	Appendix B: Library of Coupled-Line Sections and Equivalent Circuits	333
	List of Technical Publications	339
	Glossary	341
	About the Author	343
	Index	345