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180 Degree Hybrid Phase Shifters
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Cable Care
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Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
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eCalibration
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Eight-Way Wilkinson Example
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Faking SPDT three-port S-parameters
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H-tree antenna feed
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How We Finally Got it Right (and all the secrets too!)
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I
I-Q Mixers
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Indian Institutes of Technology
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John Shive's Wave Machines
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K-Factor Derivation
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Magic Tees
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N-way Power Splitters
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Ode to GREENTAPE
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Unequal Gysel splitters
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Low noise blocks
Normalized Determinant Function (NDF)
Parametric amplifiers
Power Amp Designer101!
Power Amplifiers
Power Combining
Power density calculation
Solid state power amplifiers
SSPAs - a special consideration
Unstable Amplifier Examples
Analog Circuits
Active Bias Networks for FETs
Breadboard RF Modulator
Charge Storage Capacitors
Linear voltage regulators
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A More Exact Coax Attenuation Solution
ABCD Parameters
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Coax Loss due to Dielectric Conduction
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Computational Electromagnetics
Even and Odd Mode Impedances
Finite Element Analysis
Fourier transforms
Fundamentals of EM Waves
Group Delay Simulation
Gysel even/odd mode analysis
Insertion Loss
K-Factor Derivation
Linear Interpolation for Excel
Maximum Power Transfer Theorem
Minimizing Attenuation
Mismatch Loss, Etc.
Mitered Bends
Phase delay
Poynting Vector
Reflection Coefficient Sniffer
RF Sheet Resistance
RF sheet resistance in multilayer media
Sheet Resistance
Smoothing Group Delay Data
Smoothing is Cheating!
Solving Equations with Linear Interpolation
Stability factor
Surface Roughness
Telegrapher's Equations
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Wavenumber
Why Fifty Ohms?
Wirebond Impedance and Attenuation
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Anechoic Chambers
Antenna Design
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Beam Forming Networks
Bicononical antenna
Butler Matrix
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H-tree antenna feed spreadsheet
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Parabolic Reflector Antennas
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Polarization mismatch between antennas
Radomes
Reflector Analysis and Accuracy
Rotary Joints
Rotman Lens
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What's that antenna, Daddy (or Mommy?)
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Basic Concepts
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Decibels
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Greek letters in microwave engineering
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Loss or gain?
Magical Lambda
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Phase delay formula derivation
Physical Constants
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What's a Neper?
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Books and Resources
Book: Microwave Engineering by Kaul and Wolff
Books as Free Downloads
Books on Engineering History
Books on Microwave Engineering
Brainwaves and Death (a novel)
Eisenhart Section 1 Intro
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Eisenhart Section 3 Planar Circuit Issues
Eisenhart Section 4 Waveguides and Circuits
Eisenhart Section 5 Antenna Element Design
Eisenhart Section 6 Antenna Array Design
Eisenhart Section 7 Extraneous Items
Eisenhart Section 8 Dual Band Common Aperture Array Design
Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems Engineering Handbook
Free book on microwave radiometry
IEEE Journal of Microwaves
Microwave Amateur Radio
Microwave Trade Journals
Navy Electricity and Electronics Series
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Tips and Techniques for Microwave Circuit Design
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BTOP
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SBIR and STTR Programs
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Cable Length Rule of Thumb
Coax Cables
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RF cable model
RF test cables need more respect
Semi-rigid coax
Calculators
Cascade Calculator
Coax Calculator
Computing the S-parameters of two cascaded circuits
Dual Dielectric Coax Calculator
Lumped Element Filter Calculator
Microwave Link Budget
Power Divider Calculator
Reactance and Admittance Calculator
Reactance Calculator
Resonant Frequency Calculator
Skin Depth Calculator
TEM Wavelength Calculator
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Microwave Career Killers
Microwave Startups
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Etch Factor
Layout trick for S-parameter blocks
Microwave PCBs - cost versus performance
Microwave Printed Circuit Boards
Printed circuit board milling
RF printed wiring board hints
Circulators/Isolators
Dual junction circulators
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Bad RF connector!
Connector Care
Connector Color Code
Connector Sex
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Eisenhart connector
How to Properly Clean and Care for Connectors
IEEE STD 287 Precision RF Connectors
Microwave Coaxial Connectors
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Evolution of the Lange Coupler
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Lange Couplers
March hybrid combiner
Microstrip "3 dB" Coupler
Multi-section symmetric couplers
Patch Coupler
Power combiner loss calculation
Quadrature (90 degree) property of symmetric coupled lines
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Rat-race couplers
Three-way Branchline Coupler
Traveling Wave Divider Secrets Revealed
Why there is no way to make a 45 degree hybrid coupler
Wideband 180 Degree Coupler
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Detectors
Radar Detector Breakdown
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Bagley power divider
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Combiner Loss Figure of Merit
Compact Wilkinson Example 1: the Webb power divider
Compact Wilkinson Example 2: the Scardelletti power divider
Compact Wilkinson Example 3: the Kang power divider
Compact Wilkinsons
Corporate Power Dividers
Darwish offset power dividers
Designing Wilkinsons in Excel
Eight-Way Wilkinson Example
Gysel N-way Splitter
Gysel Power Splitter
How many sections do you need in a Wilkinson?
Ideal resistors for broad-band multi-section Wilkinson power dividers
Isolation load resistor dissipation in Wilkinson power dividers
Kouzoujian Splitter
Lim-Eom Power Combiner Example #1
Load-Pull Effects on Power Combiners
Lumped-element branchline coupler
Lumped-element two-section branchline coupler
Lumped-element two-section branchline coupler MMIC
Marchand balun
Maximally-flat unequal Wilkinson
Multistage Wilkinsons
N-way Power Splitters
N-way Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
N-way Wilkinson splitters
Planar RF baluns
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Rat-Race versus Gysel Splitters
Resistive Power Splitters
Saleh Power Divider
Serial coupled combiner
Split Tee Power Divider
Three-Way Planar Wilkinsons
Three-way Rat Race Coupler
Traveling Wave Splitter
Tsai Balun
Two-section branchline coupler
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Unequal split power dividers
Unequal, N-way Gysel power divider
Unequal-split branchline coupler
Unequal-split Wilkinson power divider simplified
Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
Unequal-split Wilkinsons - the rest of the story
Wilkinson Isolation
Wilkinson Power Splitters
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Basics of computational electromagnetics
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EM Analysis Using Sonnet Software
Optimizing circuits using EM analysis
Right angle resistor
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Vlad's Lumped Element Filter Designer
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
April 2005 Press Release
Could your cell phone erase a hotel key?
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Laws of Thermodynamics
Microwave Auditory Effects
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Variable frequency microwave
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Mark 53 VT Fuze
Maxwell's Equations
Mechanical Universe from Caltech
Men of Science, Santa Barbara News-Press, 1958
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MIMO - an Historical Tutorial
MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
National Electronics Museum
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The History of Electronic Warfare - Part I
Varian Radar Ads-Historical
Where are They Now?
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: Mapping the Early Universe
Linear EDA Analysis
ADS Example 1. Two-state devices
Multi-State Simulations, Part II
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Repairing corrupt S2P files
Transient analysis using EDA software
Linear Network Parameters
Mixed-Mode S-Parameters
S-parameter Utilities Spreadsheet
S-parameters
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Lumped Elements
Adams' resistive splitter
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Lumped Element Bias Tee
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Lumped element Wilkinson power divider example 1
Lumped Element Wilkinson Splitters
Lumped Elements
Mesa Resistors
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RETMA Values
Self Resonant Frequency
Toroidal inductors
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Microwave Semiconductor Processing
Photolithography 101
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3D load-pull plot example
A Prescription For THz Transistor Characterization
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Cold S-parameters
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Group Delay Measurements
How to (not) Trash a Calibration Kit!
Interpolating data using Microwave Office
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Measuring dielectric constant from group delay
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Equal ripple transformer example
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Parabolic gain equalizer example 2
Parabolic Gain Equalizers
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Military
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MIL-Specs for Microwaves
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Excel S-Parameter Mixer
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How We Finally Got it Right (and all the secrets too!)
I-Q Mixers
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Some (not so good) Traces
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Switch FET simple physical model
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Distortion 101
Frequency Multipliers
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Basics of Good EMI/EMC Design
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Microwave Circuit Card Assemblies
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Microwave Plating 101
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RF wirebonds
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180 Degree Hybrid Phase Shifters
An Important Characteristic of Phase Shifters
Ferroelectric Phase Shifters
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MEMS Phase Shifters
Microwaves101 180 degree phase shifter
Microwaves101 Line Stretcher!
MMIC four bit phase shifter preliminary design
MMIC phase shifter 22 degree bit design
MMIC phase shifter 45 degree bit design
MMIC phase shifter 90 degree bit design
MMIC Phase Shifter Example 1
MMIC Phase Shifter Example 2
MMIC shifter 180 degree bit
MMIC shifter 180 degree bit SPDT switch
Multi-bit phase shifter design - how NOT to calculate RMS phase error
Multi-bit phase shifter design using Microwave Office
Phase Shifter Multi-State Simulation
Phase Shifter RMS Amplitude Error
Phase Shifter RMS Phase Error
Phase Shifters
PIN Diode 180 Degree Phase Shifter
Quadrature Reflection Phase Shifters
Quasi-true time delay phase shifter
Reflection Phase Shifters
RMS Phase and Amplitude Errors
Schiffman Phase Shifters
Schiffman phase shifters - a closer look
Switched Filter Phase Shifters
Switched Line Phase Shifters
Time Delay Unit (TDU)
True Time Delay
Varactor Phase Shifters
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Coax absolute maximum power handling
Coax Power Handling
Designing for High Peak Power
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Paschen's Law
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Power Handling in Waveguide
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Microwave Rules of Thumb
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A Note on Noise
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Noise Figure One and Two, Friis and IEEE
Noise Notes
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Noise Temperature
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What makes a good low-noise device?
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Lim Eom Power Combiner Example #2
Lim-Eom 3-way Power Splitters
Owen Splitter
Owen Splitter Example #1
Resistive Taps
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An Important Shunt Switch Consideration
Chalcogenide switches
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MEMS for microwaves
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Microwaves101 switch FET model
MMIC Switch Design Example 3
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Curve Tracer Example 3
Curve Tracer Measurements
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A more accurate Tline model
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Dk and Df Extraction Spreadsheet
Filling Factor
Finline
History of microstrip
Keffective
Klopfenstein Taper
Light, Phase and Group Velocities
Low Frequency Dispersion in TEM Lines
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Microstrip Loss due to Substrate Conduction
Multi-Dielectric Coax
Nonlinear Transmission Lines
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Rectax
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