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1

180 Degree Hybrid Phase Shifters

3

3-Bit Attenuator Example
3D load-pull plot example

5

5G

A

B

C

D

E

eCalibration
Efficiency of Microwave Devices
Eight-Way Wilkinson Example
Eisenhart connector
Eisenhart Section 1 Intro
Eisenhart Section 2 Transmission Lines
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
Electro-Static Discharge
Electromagnetic Analysis Software
Electronic article surveillance
Electronic Bandgap Materials
Electronic Decoys
Electronic Warfare
Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems Engineering Handbook
Eli Brookner lectures on phased arrays
EM analysis in MMIC design
EM Analysis Using Sonnet Software
EM Drive
Embedded resistors
Engineering Jokes
Envelope tracking
Epoxy for electronics
Equal ripple transformer example
Equivalent circuit model example 1: gain equalizer
Equivalent circuit model fitter
ESD Protection Circuits
Etch Factor
Even and Odd Mode Impedances
Evolution of the Lange Coupler
Excel S-Parameter Mixer

F

G

Gain
Gain Equalizers
Gallium Arsenide
Gallium Arsenide Semiconductors
Gallium Nitride
Gallium Nitride Semiconductors
Garage MOSFETS
Georgia Tech
Getting organized
Glass Materials
Global Positioning System
Gold
Graceful degradation
Graceful degradation in SSPAs
Grammar and Punctuation
Grating Lobes
Greek letters in microwave engineering
Ground
Ground Penetrating Radar
Group Delay
Group Delay in Filters
Group delay in waveguide
Group Delay Measurements
Group Delay Simulation
Growing Semiconductor Boules
Growing Starting Material
Gunn diode oscillators
Gysel even/odd mode analysis
Gysel N-way Splitter
Gysel Power Splitter

H

H-tree antenna feed
H-tree antenna feed spreadsheet
Hard Substrate Materials
Hardline Balanced Input Technique
Harmonic balance
Hazardous Materials
HBTs
Heat and temperature effects
Helix antennas
Hermeticity
High Permeability Materials
High Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
High-Pass Low-Pass Phase Shifters
Historical Test Equipment
History of microstrip
History of Microwave Diodes
History of Microwave Engineering
History of Microwave Filters
History of Microwave Software
History of MMICs
History of Stripline
History of the Microwave Oven
Homodyne Receivers
Horn Antennas
Hot Vias
Housings
How many sections do you need in a Wilkinson?
How to (not) Trash a Calibration Kit!
How to Properly Clean and Care for Connectors
How to size isolation resistors in SSPAs
How We Finally Got it Right (and all the secrets too!)
Hybrid (3 dB) couplers
Hybrid coupler isolation limitation
Hybrid Modules

I

I-Q Mixers
IEEE Journal of Microwaves
IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society
IEEE STD 287 Precision RF Connectors
Image Rejection Mixers
IMPATT diodes
IMPATT transmitters
Indian Institutes of Technology
Indium
Indium Phosphide
Indium Phosphide Semiconductors
Inductor Mathematics
Inductors
Insertion Loss
International Microwave Symposium
International traffic in arms regulations (ITAR)
Internet Connectivity
Iridium
Iron
ISIS Diodes
Isolation
Isolation load resistor dissipation in Wilkinson power dividers
Isolators
Isotropy and Anisotropy

J

John Shive's Wave Machines
Josephson junctions - career killer?

K

K-Factor Derivation
Keffective
Klopfenstein Taper
Know your audience
Kouzoujian Splitter

L

M

N

N-way Power Splitters
N-way Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
N-way Wilkinson splitters
National Taiwan University
National Electronics Museum
National Institute of Technology, Trichy
Navy Electricity and Electronics Series
Negative resistance devices
Network Analyzer Measurements
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Nickel
No Link Provided
Noise Conversion
Noise Figure
Noise figure measurement on a VNA!
Noise Figure of Passives
Noise Figure One and Two, Friis and IEEE
Noise Notes
Noise Parameter Equations
Noise Parameter Extraction using Source Pull
Noise Parameters
Noise parameters, a practical example
Noise Temperature
Non-Linear Devices
Non-linear Passive Reciprocal Networks
Nonlinear Transmission Lines
Normalized Determinant Function (NDF)

O

Ode to GREENTAPE
Off-Center Coax
Old School Tools
Optimization
Optimizing circuits using EM analysis
Oscillators
Oscilloscope Measurements
Owen Splitter
Owen Splitter Example #1

P

Q

Quadrature (90 degree) property of symmetric coupled lines
Quadrature couplers
Quadrature Reflection Phase Shifters
Quality factor
Quan Attenuator
Quarter-wave Transformers
Quarter-wave Tricks
Quartz

R

S

T

U

Unequal Gysel splitters
Unequal split power dividers
Unequal, N-way Gysel power divider
Unequal-split branchline coupler
Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
Unequal-split Wilkinsons - the rest of the story
Units and Conversion Factors
University of Califonia San Diego
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas El Paso
University of Virginia
Unstable Amplifier Examples

V

V-bonds
Van der Pauw Measurements
Varactor Phase Shifters
Varactors
Variable Attenuators
Varian Radar Ads-Historical
Vector Modulator
Video Conferencing
Virtual Lobby
Visualizing VSWR
Vivaldi Antenna
Vlad's Lumped Element Filter Designer
VNA Help!
Vocal Acoustics
Voltage regulator modules
Voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR)

W

Waugh Attenuator
Waveguide Cavity Filters
Waveguide Construction
Waveguide Loss
Waveguide Mode Visualization
Waveguide Primer
Waveguide to coax transitions
Waveguide wave impedance
Waveguide Mathematics
Wavenumber
What makes a good low-noise device?
What's a Neper?
What's that antenna, Daddy (or Mommy?)
What's the frequency?
Where are They Now?
Why Fifty Ohms?
Why there is no way to make a 45 degree hybrid coupler
Wideband 180 Degree Coupler
Wilkinson Isolation
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: Mapping the Early Universe
Wilkinson Power Splitters
Wire over ground transmission line
Wire Transmission Lines
Wirebond Impedance and Attenuation
Wirebonding
Wireless
WLAN Standards
Women in Microwaves
Writing process and style

Y

Yield Analysis
YIG Technology

Z

Zener Diodes
Zinc
Zirconium

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Active Devices

Antimonide-based compound semiconductors (abcs)
Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs)
Carbon Nanotubes
Discrete Devices
Fmax and Ft
Gallium Arsenide Semiconductors
Gallium Nitride Semiconductors
Garage MOSFETS
HBTs
Indium Phosphide Semiconductors
LDMOS
Microwave FET Tutorial
Microwave Semiconductor Tradeoffs
Miller effect
Silicon Semiconductors

Amplifiers

ABCs of Amplifiers
Active Directivity of Amplifiers
Amplifier Classes
Balanced amplifier VSWR
Balanced Amplifiers
Bias Tee
Bias voltage versus supply voltage
Distributed Amplifiers
Doherty Amplifiers
Efficiency of Microwave Devices
Envelope tracking
Feedback Amplifiers
FET Bias Networks
Graceful degradation
Graceful degradation in SSPAs
How to size isolation resistors in SSPAs
Load-modulated balanced amplifier
Log Amplifiers
Low noise amplifiers (LNAs)
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
Power conditioning circuits
Switch Drivers
Switched mode power supplies
Voltage regulator modules

Analysis and Theory

Antennas and Feeds

Anechoic Chambers
Antenna Design
Antenna measurements
Beam Forming Networks
Bicononical antenna
Butler Matrix
Circular patch antennas
Circularly Polarized Antenna Feed
H-tree antenna feed
H-tree antenna feed spreadsheet
Horn Antennas
Long Wavelength Array
Microstrip Patch Antennas
Monopulse Antennas
Parabolic Reflector Antennas
Polarization
Radomes
Reflector Analysis and Accuracy
Rotary Joints
Rotman Lens
Rotodomes
Vivaldi Antenna
What's that antenna, Daddy (or Mommy?)

Applications

Automotive radar applications
Biological Effects of EM Radiation
Drones
Electronic article surveillance
Electronic Decoys
Electronic Warfare
EM Drive
Global Positioning System
Microwave Imaging
Microwave Medical Applications
Microwave spectroscopy
Microwave Toilets
Problems with VSWR in Medical Applications
Radio Astronomy
Rectennas
RF Lighting
RF Ablation
TeraHertz Systems

Attenuators

3-Bit Attenuator Example
Attenuator Dissipation
Attenuator Math
Attenuators
Carrottenuator
L-Pads
Mechanically Adjustable Attenuator
Quan Attenuator
Reflection Attenuators
Switchable Attenuators
Variable Attenuators
Waugh Attenuator

Basic Concepts

Atmospheric Attenuation
Basic Concepts
Basic network theory
Decibels
Gain
Greek letters in microwave engineering
John Shive's Wave Machines
Loss or gain?
Magical Lambda
Percent bandwidth
Permeability
Permittivity
Phase delay formula derivation
Physical Constants
Quality factor
Reference Planes
Skin Depth
Units and Conversion Factors
Voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR)
What's a Neper?
What's the frequency?

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
Eisenhart Section 2 Transmission Lines
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
Project Connect
Tips and Techniques for Microwave Circuit Design

Business Development

BTOP
DARPA Microwave Programs
Microwave Market Research
SBIR and STTR Programs

Cables

Cable Care
Cable Length Rule of Thumb
Coax Cables
Manufacturing semi-rigid cables
RF cable model
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

Career

Active Denial - Career Killer?
Josephson junctions - career killer?
Microwave Career Killers
Microwave Startups

Circuit card assemblies

Etch Factor
Microwave PCBs - cost versus performance
Microwave Printed Circuit Boards
Printed circuit board milling
RF printed wiring board hints

Circulators/Isolators

Dual junction circulators

Connectors

Connector Care
Connector Color Code
Connector Sex
Connector Torque
Eisenhart connector
How to Properly Clean and Care for Connectors
IEEE STD 287 Precision RF Connectors
Microwave Coaxial Connectors
Precision Connectors
Push-On Connectors
Scoop-proof connectors
SMA and SSMA Connectors
SMB Connectors
SMC Connectors
SMP Connectors
SMPM Connectors
SNP Format
SSMC connectors
TK connectors
Torque Wrench

Couplers

Branchline Couplers
Cascaded Rat-Race Coupler
Cascaded Splitters and Couplers
Coupled Line Coupler Advice
Coupled Line Couplers
Coupler Fundamentals
Coupler Loss
Couplers and Splitters
Directional Couplers
Double-Box Branchlines
Evolution of the Lange Coupler
Hybrid (3 dB) couplers
Hybrid coupler isolation limitation
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
Quadrature couplers
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

Detectors

Detectors
Radar Detector Breakdown

Dividers/Combiners

Baluns
Broadband Four-way and Eight-way Wilkinson Example
Combiner Loss Figure of Merit
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?
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
Power splitter or power divider?
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
Unequal Gysel splitters
Unequal split power dividers
Unequal, N-way Gysel power divider
Unequal-split branchline coupler
Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
Unequal-split Wilkinsons - the rest of the story
Wilkinson Isolation
Wilkinson Power Splitters

Electromagnetic EDA Analysis

Basics of computational electromagnetics
EM analysis in MMIC design
EM Analysis Using Sonnet Software
Optimizing circuits using EM analysis
Right angle resistor

Electronically Steerable Antennas

AESAs
Common-Leg Circuits
Cylindrical phased arrays
Grating Lobes
PESAs
Phased Array Antennas
Phased array tip
TDUs or phase shifters?
Transmit/Receive Modules

Electro-Optical Systems

The Infrared and Electro-Optical Systems Handbook

Ferrite Devices

Circulators
Duplexers
Ferrite Beads
Ferrite Devices
Isolation
Isolators
Permalloy

Filters

Balanced filter
Cylindrical cavity resonators
DC Block
Diplexers
Drop, Droop and Roll-Off
Filter Response Types
Filter Schematic Symbols
Filters
Group Delay
Group Delay in Filters
Lumped Element Filters
Multiplexers
Reflectionless filters
Resonant Cavities
Resonator Parameters
Switched filter banks
Tunable filters
Vlad's Lumped Element Filter Designer
Waveguide Cavity Filters
YIG Technology

Fun Stuff

A GaAs Poem
April 2005 Press Release
Could your cell phone erase a hotel key?
Engineering Jokes
Lockheed Flyby
MEMS Tree of Woe
Microwave Man
Microwave Mortuary
Microwave Poetry
Microwave Slang
Microwaves101 Gift Shop
Ode to GREENTAPE
Portmanteaux in Engineering
Radio songs
Songs about Radar
Songs about SatCom
Songs about telecommunications

Heat and Temperature

Amplifier temperature compensation example
Capacitor temperature effects
Coax loss versus temperature
Cryogenics in microwaves
Finite Integration Technique
Fourier's Law
Heat and temperature effects
Laws of Thermodynamics
Microwave Auditory Effects
Resistance Temperature Devices (RTDs)
Solid-state microwave ovens
Temperature Expansion
Temperature Measurement
Temperature modeling of S-parameters
Temperature variable attenuators
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Conductivity
Thermistors
Thermocouples
Thermoelectric Coolers
Transmission line temperature effects

History

A Rough Justice
BAA
Historical Test Equipment
History of Microwave Diodes
History of Microwave Engineering
History of Microwave Filters
History of Microwave Software
History of MMICs
History of Stripline
History of the Microwave Oven
Mark 53 VT Fuze
Maxwell's Equations
Mechanical Universe from Caltech
Men of Science, Santa Barbara News-Press, 1958
Microwave Hall of Fame Part I
Microwave Hall of Fame Part III
Microwave Nomographs
Microwave Hall of Fame Part II
MIMO - an Historical Tutorial
MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
National Electronics Museum
Old School Tools
Pocket Protector
RCA
Rubylith
SIGABA
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
Optimization
Repairing corrupt S2P files
Transient analysis using EDA software

Linear Network Parameters

Mixed-Mode S-Parameters
S-parameter Utilities Spreadsheet
S-parameters
Transfer S-parameters

Lumped Elements

Adams' resistive splitter
Capacitor ESR Effects
Capacitor Fabrication
Capacitor Mathematics
Capacitor voltage effects
Capacitors
Ceramic Capacitors
Charge storage capacitor dissipation
Embedded resistors
Inductor Mathematics
Inductors
Lumped Element Bias Tee
Lumped element matching calculator
Lumped element Wilkinson power divider example 1
Lumped Element Wilkinson Splitters
Lumped Elements
Mesa Resistors
Parasitics
Resistor Mathematics
Resonance of RLC Circuits
RETMA Values
Self Resonant Frequency
Toroidal inductors

Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing
Design of experiments
Fiducials
Microwave Semiconductor Processing
Photolithography 101
Resistor Trimming
Six Sigma
Soldering Basics
Thick-Film Resistors
Thin-Film Networks
Thin-Film Resistors
Van der Pauw Measurements
Yield Analysis

Material Properties

Measurement and Characterization

3D load-pull plot example
A Prescription For THz Transistor Characterization
Airline calibration standards
Averaging example
Calibrating S-parameter Measurements
Cold S-parameters
Corner Reflectors
De-embedding Load-Pull Data
De-embedding S-Parameters
De-embedding using negation elements
Group Delay Measurements
How to (not) Trash a Calibration Kit!
Laboratory Safety
Measuring Characteristic Impedance
Measuring Dielectric Constant
Measuring dielectric constant from group delay
Metrology
Network Analyzer Measurements
Noise Parameter Equations
Noise Parameter Extraction using Source Pull
Noise parameters, a practical example
Oscilloscope Measurements
Power Meter Measurements
RF Probing
Slotted Line Measurements
Time domain analysis using frequency domain data
Time Domain Reflectometry
TRL calibration
VNA Help!

Microwave Tricks

Electronic Bandgap Materials
Equal ripple transformer example
Gain Equalizers
Parabolic gain equalizer example 2
Parabolic Gain Equalizers
Quarter-wave Transformers
Quarter-wave Tricks
Slow-Wave Structures

Military

International traffic in arms regulations (ITAR)
MIL-Specs for Microwaves

Mixers

Double-Balanced Mixers
Excel S-Parameter Mixer
Hardline Balanced Input Technique
How We Finally Got it Right (and all the secrets too!)
I-Q Mixers
Image Rejection Mixers
Mixer Mess!
Mixer Noise Figure
Mixer Spur Chart
Mixer waveforms
Mixers
Pocket Comb Mixer
Ring Or Crossover?
Single-sideband mixers
Some (not so good) Traces
Special Mixer Mess
Spectral inversion
Spectrum Analyser Mixer Dissection - Page 2
Spectrum Analyser Mixer Dissection - Page 3
Spectrum Analyser Mixer Dissection - Page 4
Spectrum Analyser Mixer Dissection - Page 5
Spur Search
Sub-Harmonic Mixers
Suspended Substrate Stripline Couplers (and how we got there from hardline!)
The Result - Performance Traces
Vector Modulator

MMICs

Air bridge inductance
MMIC Design
MMIC Suppliers
MMICs
RFID

Modeling

Equivalent circuit model example 1: gain equalizer
Equivalent circuit model fitter
S-parameter interpolator

Nonlinear Devices

Compression point
Cripps' analysis
Diodes
Distortion 101
Frequency Multipliers
Harmonic balance
IMPATT diodes
Limiters
Load Pull for Power Devices
Negative resistance devices
Non-Linear Devices
Non-linear Passive Reciprocal Networks
PIN Diodes
Schottky Diodes
Tunnel Diodes
Varactors
Zener Diodes

Oscillators and Sources

Coupled Oscillators
Crystal Oscillators
Gunn diode oscillators
IMPATT transmitters
ISIS Diodes
Masers
Oscillators
Phase noise
Phase noise videos
Pulsed RF Sources

Packaging

Phase Shifters/Time Delay Units

180 Degree Hybrid Phase Shifters
An Important Characteristic of Phase Shifters
Ferroelectric Phase Shifters
Frequency Translators
High-Pass Low-Pass Phase Shifters
Line Stretchers
Loaded-Line Phase Shifters
MEMS Phase Shifters
Microwaves101 Line Stretcher!
MMIC Phase Shifter Example 1
MMIC Phase Shifter Example 2
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
Reflection Phase Shifters
RMS Phase and Amplitude Errors
Schiffman Phase Shifters
Switched Filter Phase Shifters
Switched Line Phase Shifters
Time Delay Unit (TDU)
True Time Delay
Varactor Phase Shifters

Power Handling

Atmospheric Breakdown
Coax absolute maximum power handling
Coax Power Handling
Designing for High Peak Power
Multipaction
Paschen's Law
Power Handling
Power Handling in Waveguide

Practical Advice

Faking SPDT three-port S-parameters
Ground
Microwave Figures of Merit
Microwave Rules of Thumb

Printed Circuit Boards

Copper pour on RF PCBs

Professional Societies

ARMMS Conference
Association of Old Crows
BCICTS
BCICTS History
IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society
International Microwave Symposium
Microwave Events Calendar
Women in Microwaves

Radar

Automotive Radar
Barker codes
CASA Center
Coffee Can Radar
Doppler Radar Teardown
Doppler Shift
Eli Brookner lectures on phased arrays
Ground Penetrating Radar
Radar Absorbers
Radar Cross-Section Physics
Radar Range Equation
Radar101

Radio and Communications

5G
Cell Phones
Deep Space Network
Digital modulation
Free Space Path Loss
Full Duplex Transmit/Receive
Fundamentals of Radio Course
LEO Satcom
Radio direction finding
Radio101
SatCom
Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR)
Single Sideband Transmission
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Starlink
Wireless
WLAN Standards

Receivers

A Note on Noise
Direct digital receivers
Dual-Channel Receivers
Dynamic Range
Homodyne Receivers
Microwave Receivers
Minimum detectable signal
Noise Conversion
Noise Figure
Noise Figure of Passives
Noise Figure One and Two, Friis and IEEE
Noise Notes
Noise Parameters
Noise Temperature
Radiometric Receivers
Receiver Blocking
Superheterodyne Receivers
What makes a good low-noise device?

Reliability

Circuit card burn-in
Reliability

Smith Chart

Smith Chart Basics
Smith Chart in Excel
Three Dimensional Smith Chart

Software

Computer-Aided Design
Electromagnetic Analysis Software
FraudoCAD
Free EDA software
Linear CAD Software
Microwave Smartphone Apps
Software for Circuit Layout

Spectrum analysis

Pulsed RF spectrum spreadsheet
Spectrum analysis

Splitters

Lim Eom Power Combiner Example #2
Lim-Eom 3-way Power Splitters
Owen Splitter
Owen Splitter Example #1
Resistive Taps

Switches

An Important Shunt Switch Consideration
Chalcogenide switches
Ferrite Switches
Liquid metal switches
Mechanical Switches
MEMS for microwaves
Metal-insulator-transition switches
Microwave Switches
Microwaves101 switch FET model
MMIC Switch Design Example 3
Phase change switches
PIN Diode Switches
Resonating switch-FET off-capacitance
SLCFET
Solid-State Switches
Stiction
Switch Design
Switch FET geometric modeling
Switch FETs and FET Switches
Switch Matrices
Switch Power Handling

System Design

Cascade Analysis

Technical Writing and Presentations

Getting organized
Grammar and Punctuation
Know your audience
Sample documents
Technical Writing
Writing process and style

Terminations

Dot Termination
Microstrip Short Circuit
Microwave terminations
Mismatched termination power handling
Mismatched terminations
Phase-variable mismatched termination
Pill terminations

Test Equipment

Controlling Curve Tracer Oscillations
Curve Tracer Example 1
Curve Tracer Example 2
Curve Tracer Example 3
Curve Tracer Measurements
Curve Tracer Modification
eCalibration
Frequency Meters
Microwave Impedance Tuners
Microwave Lab
Microwave Measurements
Noise figure measurement on a VNA!
RF Probe Calibration
Sliding load
Spectrum Analyzer

Transformers and Matching Networks

Matching Networks
Maximally-Flat Impedance Transformers
Tapered Transformers
Twelfth-wave Transformer

Transmission Lines

Universities

Chalmers University of Technology
Clemson University
Colorado State University
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Georgia Tech
Indian Institutes of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Meta-material research at NIT Trichy
Microwave Colleges
MTT IMS 3-Minute Thesis Competition
National Taiwan University
National Institute of Technology, Trichy
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Purdue University
Seoul National University
SUNY New Paltz
University of Califonia San Diego
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas El Paso
University of Virginia

Vacuum Electronics

Magnetron
Microwave Tubes
Traveling wave tubes (TWTs)

Waveguides

Circular Waveguide
Coplanar Waveguide
Dielectric-Loaded Waveguide
Double-Ridged Waveguide
Flexible Waveguide
Frequency Letter Bands
Group delay in waveguide
Magic Tees
Parallel Plate Waveguide
Rectangular Waveguide Dimensions
Short-Slot Waveguide Hybrid
Substrate Integrated Waveguide
Waveguide Construction
Waveguide Loss
Waveguide Mode Visualization
Waveguide Primer
Waveguide to coax transitions
Waveguide wave impedance
Waveguide Mathematics

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