A unified presentation of the analysis and design of microwave transistor amplifiers (and oscillators) — using scattering parameters techniques.

A Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Treatment of RF and Microwave Transistor Amplifiers
 This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of RF and microwave transistor amplifiers, including low-noise, narrowband, broadband, linear, high-power, high-efficiency, and high-voltage. Topics covered include modeling, analysis, design, packaging, and thermal and fabrication considerations.
 Through a unique integration of theory and practice, readers will learn to solve amplifier-related design problems ranging from matching networks to biasing and stability. More than 240 problems are included to help readers test their basic amplifier and circuit design skills-and more than half of the problems feature fully worked-out solutions.
 With an emphasis on theory, design, and everyday applications, this book is geared toward students, teachers, scientists, and practicing engineers who are interested in broadening their knowledge of RF and microwave transistor amplifier circuit design.

Transistor amplifiers have been written about for well over a half century. Why another book on an old subject? I have three reasons. As a field develops, simplifications and refinements occur and misconceptions are corrected. This is still true for analog circuits. Some important concepts have yet to diffuse broadly, leaving engineers and technicians in the dark about puzzling kinds of circuit behavior. This book brings out some of what is either missing or crowded out of introductory active-circuits textbooks and corrects some misconceptions. It also presents refined ways of thinking about circuits that simplify understanding of them. A fuller engineering development of most of these themes is in my Analog Circuit Design book-set, and in this book, I offer fresh and different ways of thinking about neglected or confusing topics.

The increase of consumer electronics and communications applications using radio frequency (RF) and microwave circuits has implications for oscillator design. Applications working at higher frequencies and using novel technologies have led to a demand for more robust circuits with higher performance and functionality, but decreased costs, size and power consumption. As a result, there is also a need for more efficient oscillators.