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lines using distributed circuit models. The propagation of pulse signals is
also covered. The second
part
of
this
chapter is a long section covering
the
characteristics of
planar
transmission lines, such as microstrip lines, cou-
pled microstrip lines, strip lines,
and
coplanar lines or waveguides.
The
treatment
is considerably broader
than
what is available in any
other
current
text. Most of
the
formulas for
the
quasi-TEM mode parameters are
derived using conformal mapping methods in a new Appendix
III
and are
not
just
quoted from
the
literature. Several new formulas for
attenuation
have been derived as well as suitable modifications of existing formulas to
account for anisotropic substrates. The last
part
of
the
chapter covers
the
basic properties of rectangular
and
circular waveguides, as in
the
original
edition.
Chapter 4 develops
the
basic microwave circuit theory
and
includes
detailed discussions of
the
impedance, admittance
and
scattering matrix
descriptions of microwave junctions. New material
has
been added on signal
flow graphs
and
the
generalized scattering matrix for power waves. The
material on small
aperture
coupling
has
been updated to include radiation
reaction
that
will account for power transmission
through
an
aperture
and
thereby lead to physically meaningful equivalent circuits for small aper-
tures.
Chapter
5
treats
a
number
of topics related to impedance matching
and
transformations.
The
old topic of impedance matching with lumped
reactive elements
has
been revived because this is now frequently used in
microwave integrated circuits. The design of complex load terminations has
also been included because
this
is required for microwave solid
state
ampli-
fier design. The available power
at
any point in a lossless reciprocal network
is an invariant quantity. This concept is explained in
terms
of
the
impedance
mismatch factor. The invariance of
the
impedance mismatch factor places
an
important
constraint on
the
design of interstage matching networks in a
microwave amplifier
and
is used in Chapter 10 in
the
design of microwave
amplifiers. The last
part
of Chapter 5 discusses multisection quarter-wave
transformers
and
tapered transmission lines. A new example of a microstrip
half-wave filter design based on
the
quarter-wave transformer as a proto-
type circuit has been included.
A variety of passive components are described along with detailed
analysis in Chapter 6.
In
addition to those components described in
the
original edition, new material
has
been added on coupled-microstrip-line
directional couplers,
the
branch-line coupler, hybrid junctions,
and
the
Wilkinson power divider. New material on electronic controlled
attenuators
and
phase shifters
has
also been added.
Chapter 7 on resonators has been expanded to include new material on
microstrip resonators
and
dielectric resonators. The old material on
Fabry-Perot
resonators has been deleted in order to make room for a
short
section on cavity perturbation theory.
Chapter 8 on periodic
structures
and filters now includes a detailed
treatment
of gap-coupled
and
edge-coupled microstrip filters. The
treatment