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180 Degree Hybrid Phase Shifters
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Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
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N-way Power Splitters
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Ode to GREENTAPE
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S-parameter Utilities Spreadsheet
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Tantalum
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Unequal Gysel splitters
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Van der Pauw Measurements
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Waugh Attenuator
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Waveguide Primer
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Why Fifty Ohms?
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Yield Analysis
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Smoothing is Cheating!
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Wirebond Impedance and Attenuation
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Evolution of the Lange Coupler
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Load-Pull Effects on Power Combiners
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
Split Tee Power Divider
Three-Way Planar Wilkinsons
Three-way Rat Race Coupler
Traveling Wave Splitter
Unequal Gysel splitters
Unequal split power dividers
Unequal, N-way Gysel power divider
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
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Grating Lobes
PESAs
Phased Array Antennas
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Laws of Thermodynamics
Microwave Auditory Effects
Resistance Temperature Devices (RTDs)
Solid-state microwave ovens
Temperature Expansion
Temperature Measurement
Temperature modeling of S-parameters
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Conductivity
Thermistors
Thermocouples
Thermoelectric Coolers
History
A Rough Justice
Historical Test Equipment
History of Microwave Engineering
History of Microwave Software
History of MMICs
History of Stripline
History of the Microwave Oven
Mark 53 VT Fuze
Maxwell's Equations
Men of Science, Santa Barbara News-Press, 1958
Microwave Hall of Fame Part I
Microwave Hall of Fame Part III
Microwave Hall of Fame Part II
MIMO - an Historical Tutorial
MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
Pocket Protector
RCA
SIGABA
The History of Electronic Warfare - Part I
Varian Radar Ads-Historical
Where are They Now?
Linear EDA Analysis
ADS Example 1. Two-state devices
Multi-State Simulations, Part II
Optimization
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 Mathematics
Capacitors
Ceramic Capacitors
Inductor Mathematics
Inductors
Lumped Element Bias Tee
Lumped Element Wilkinson Splitters
Lumped Elements
Mesa Resistors
Parasitics
Resistor Mathematics
Resonance of RLC Circuits
RETMA Values
Self Resonant Frequency
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
Absorbing Materials
Air
Alumina 96%
Alumina 99.5%
Aluminum
Aluminum Nitride
Bakelite
Barium strontium titanate (BST)
Beryllium Oxide
Capacitor Materials
Chromium
Co-fired Ceramics
Conducting Materials
Conductivity
Copper
FR-4
Gallium Arsenide
Gallium Nitride
Glass Materials
Gold
Growing Semiconductor Boules
Growing Starting Material
Hard Substrate Materials
Hazardous Materials
High Permeability Materials
High Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
Indium
Indium Phosphide
Iridium
Iron
Isotropy and Anisotropy
Lead
Low Expansion Alloys
Magnetic Materials
Materials for Microwave Engineering
Metamaterials
Miscellaneous Dielectric Constants
Nickel
Palladium
Periodic Chart
Platinum
Porcelain
PTFE
Quartz
Rhodium
Sapphire
Silicon
Silicon Carbide
Silicon Dioxide
Silver
Soft Substrate Materials
Solder for microwave assemblies
Structural Materials
Superconductors
Tantalum
Tin
Titanium
Tungsten
Zinc
Zirconium
Measurement and Characterization
A Prescription For THz Transistor Characterization
Calibrating S-parameter Measurements
Cold S-parameters
Corner Reflectors
De-embedding Load-Pull Data
De-embedding S-Parameters
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
TRL calibration
VNA Help!
Microwave Tricks
Electronic Bandgap Materials
Gain Equalizers
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
Hardline Balanced Input Technique
How We Finally Got it Right (and all the secrets too!)
Image Rejection Mixers
Mixer Mess!
Mixer Noise Figure
Mixer Spur Chart
Mixer waveforms
Mixers
Ring Or Crossover?
Some (not so good) Traces
Special Mixer Mess
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
MMICs
RFID
Nonlinear Devices
Compression point
Cripps' analysis
Diodes
Distortion 101
Frequency Multipliers
Harmonic balance
IMPATT diodes
Limiters
Load Pull for Power Devices
Non-Linear Devices
Non-linear Passive Reciprocal Networks
PIN Diodes
Schottky Diodes
Tunnel Diodes
Varactors
Zener Diodes
Oscillators and Sources
Crystal Oscillators
Gunn diode oscillators
Masers
Oscillators
Phase noise
Pulsed RF Sources
Packaging
American Wire Gauge
Atmospheric Pressure
Avoiding oscillations in microwave packaging
Basics of Good EMI/EMC Design
Batteries
Chicken dots
Drill Sizes
Electro-Static Discharge
Epoxy for electronics
ESD Protection Circuits
Feedthroughs
Flip Chip Technology
Hermeticity
Housings
Hybrid Modules
Laird
Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
Microwave Circuit Card Assemblies
Microwave Plating 101
Packaging
Packaging, assembly, and interconnects
RF wirebonds
Seam Sealer
Wirebonding
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
Power Handling
Practical Advice
Faking SPDT three-port S-parameters
Ground
Microwave Figures of Merit
Microwave Rules of Thumb
Printed Circuit Boards
Etch Factor
Microwave PCBs - cost versus performance
Microwave Printed Circuit Boards
RF printed wiring board hints
Professional Societies
Association of Old Crows
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Women in Microwaves
Radar
Automotive Radar
CASA Center
Coffee Can Radar
Doppler Shift
Radar Absorbers
Radar Cross-Section Physics
Radar101
Radio and Communications
5G
Cell Phones
Free Space Path Loss
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Wireless
WLAN Standards
Receivers
Dual-Channel Receivers
Dynamic Range
Homodyne Receivers
Microwave Receivers
Noise Conversion
Noise Figure
Noise Figure of Passives
Noise Parameters
Noise Temperature
Radiometric Receivers
Receiver Blocking
Superheterodyne Receivers
Reliability
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
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
Ferrite Switches
Mechanical Switches
MEMS for microwaves
Microwave Switches
Microwaves101 switch FET model
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
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
Spectrum Analyzer
Transformers and Matching Networks
Matching Networks
Maximally-Flat Impedance Transformers
Tapered Transformers
Twelfth-wave Transformer
Transmission Lines
Artificial transmission lines
Cheapline™
Coax
Dispersion
Dispersion in microstrip
Dk and Df Extraction Spreadsheet
Filling Factor
Finline
Keffective
Klopfenstein Taper
Light, Phase and Group Velocities
Low Frequency Dispersion in TEM Lines
Microstrip
Microstrip Loss Calculations
Microstrip Loss due to Substrate Conduction
Multi-Dielectric Coax
Nonlinear Transmission Lines
Off-Center Coax
Propagation Constant
Rectax
Slotline
Stripline
Transmission Line Loss
Transmission line tool
Transmission Lines
Transmission Line Model
Transverse Electro-Magnetic (TEM)
Wire 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
National Taiwan University
National Institute of Technology, Trichy
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Seoul National University
SUNY New Paltz
University of Califonia San Diego
University of Oklahoma
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 Primer
Waveguide to coax transitions
Waveguide wave impedance
Waveguide Mathematics
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