| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Solid-State Microwave Power Oscillator | p. 1 |
| Devices and Circuits | p. 2 |
| Power Oscillator Design | p. 6 |
| The Oscillator Equation | p. 8 |
| Power Oscillator Applications | p. 9 |
| References | p. 10 |
| Review of Electromagnetic Theory | p. 11 |
| Maxwell's Equations | p. 11 |
| Statics and Poisson's Equation | p. 17 |
| TEM and Quasi-TEM Transmission Lines | p. 18 |
| Rectangular Waveguides | p. 33 |
| Field Theory | p. 33 |
| The Rectangular Cavity | p. 41 |
| Transmission Line Representation of a Waveguide Mode | p. 43 |
| Wave Propagation and Reflection | p. 46 |
| Terminated Transmission Lines | p. 47 |
| The Smith Chart | p. 49 |
| Radial Line Input Impedance | p. 50 |
| Network Representations: Y, Z, and S Parameters | p. 51 |
| The Microwave Network | p. 52 |
| Y-Parameters | p. 53 |
| Z-Parameters | p. 54 |
| S-Parameters | p. 55 |
| References | p. 57 |
| Oscillator Theory | p. 59 |
| Fundamentals | p. 59 |
| Resonators | p. 60 |
| Negative Resistance | p. 62 |
| The Oscillation Conditions Using Impedance | p. 62 |
| Derivation of the Oscillator Equation | p. 63 |
| Stability | p. 68 |
| Noise | p. 69 |
| Graphical Oscillator Analysis | p. 70 |
| Oscillator Description: Impedance Loci versus Quality Factor | p. 73 |
| Oscillation Conditions Using Reflection Coefficients | p. 74 |
| N-Port Oscillation Condition | p. 78 |
| Impedance and Admittance Matrix Oscillation Conditions | p. 78 |
| Scattering Matrix Oscillation Condition | p. 79 |
| Oscillator Phenomena | p. 83 |
| Pulling Figure | p. 83 |
| Start-Up Behavior | p. 84 |
| Continuous and Pulsed Operation | p. 85 |
| Appendices | |
| Oscillator AM and Phase Noise | p. 88 |
| Pulling Figure | p. 91 |
| Chapter Glossary | p. 95 |
| References | p. 97 |
| Devices | p. 99 |
| Semiconductor Theory | p. 99 |
| Fundamentals | p. 99 |
| Nonequilibrium Behavior | p. 105 |
| Band-Bending | p. 107 |
| Materials | p. 109 |
| Semiconductor Junctions | p. 109 |
| pn Junction | p. 109 |
| Schottky Junction | p. 116 |
| Schottky Ohmic Contact | p. 120 |
| Heterojunction | p. 120 |
| Two-Terminal Devices | p. 121 |
| Varactor Diode | p. 121 |
| IMPATT Diode | p. 131 |
| Gunn Device | p. 146 |
| Three-Terminal Devices | p. 151 |
| Bipolar Junction Transistor | p. 152 |
| Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor | p. 157 |
| Metal Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor | p. 159 |
| High Electron Mobility Transistor | p. 164 |
| Device Modeling | p. 166 |
| Modeling Approaches | p. 166 |
| Device Models | p. 168 |
| References | p. 168 |
| Planar Single-Device Oscillators | p. 171 |
| Oscillator Design Strategy | p. 171 |
| Planar SDO Design | p. 173 |
| Linear Design | p. 174 |
| Quasilinear Design | p. 176 |
| The Device Line Technique | p. 177 |
| The Gain Saturation Approximation | p. 180 |
| The Empirical Device Large-Signal Equivalent Circuit | p. 183 |
| The Theoretical Device Large-Signal Equivalent Circuit | p. 186 |
| Nonlinear Design | p. 189 |
| Harmonic Balance | p. 189 |
| Volterra Series | p. 196 |
| Dielectric Resonator Oscillators | p. 199 |
| Bias Circuit Design | p. 207 |
| Circuit Realization | p. 210 |
| Microwave Integrated Circuits | p. 211 |
| Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits | p. 212 |
| Appendices | |
| Empirical Equivalent Circuit Development | p. 214 |
| Theoretical Equivalent Circuit Development | p. 218 |
| References | p. 220 |
| Cavity Single-Device Oscillators | p. 223 |
| Cavity Oscillator Design Strategy | p. 223 |
| Coaxial Oscillators | p. 226 |
| Single Coaxial Entry Waveguide Circuit | p. 228 |
| Derivation of the Input Admittance | p. 230 |
| Numerical Considerations | p. 232 |
| Waveguide Arms Terminated in Short and Match | p. 234 |
| Equivalent Circuit for Arbitrary Waveguide Arm Terminations | p. 236 |
| Post-Gap Waveguide Circuit | p. 241 |
| Numerical Considerations | p. 242 |
| Equivalent Circuit for Arbitrary Waveguide Arm Terminations | p. 243 |
| Double Coaxial Entry Waveguide Circuit | p. 244 |
| Derivation of the Circuit Admittance | p. 245 |
| Equivalent Circuit for Arbitrary Waveguide Arm Terminations | p. 246 |
| Coaxial-Gap Waveguide Circuit | p. 249 |
| Top Hat Waveguide Circuit | p. 253 |
| The Device Mount | p. 254 |
| The Post-Gap Mount | p. 254 |
| The Series-Mounted Device in a Coaxial Line | p. 257 |
| Bias Circuit Design | p. 260 |
| dc Bias Circuit Compatibility | p. 260 |
| External Bias Circuit Components | p. 264 |
| Circuit Realization | p. 266 |
| Hardware Design | p. 266 |
| Circuited Related Tuning Characteristics | p. 267 |
| Temperature Compensation | p. 268 |
| Oscillator Design Examples | p. 269 |
| Appendices | |
| General Expression for Y[subscript in] | p. 276 |
| Single Coaxial Entry--Input Admittance | p. 278 |
| Post Gap--Input Admittance | p. 288 |
| Derivation of Y[subscript 21] | p. 291 |
| Top Hat--Input Admittance | p. 294 |
| References | p. 299 |
| Voltage-Controlled Oscillators | p. 303 |
| VCO Basics | p. 303 |
| Varactors for VCOs | p. 305 |
| Varactor Properties for Planar VCOs | p. 307 |
| Frequency Linear Varactors | p. 310 |
| Temperature Behavior | p. 311 |
| Planar Varactor VCOs | p. 312 |
| Linear Design | p. 312 |
| Other Planar VCOs | p. 315 |
| Linearity | p. 324 |
| Waveguide Varactor VCOs | p. 324 |
| The N-Post Circuit Gap Impedance Matrix | p. 326 |
| Evaluation of the Impedance Expressions | p. 329 |
| The Two-Post Circuit | p. 330 |
| Strip-Post Equivalence Relationships | p. 335 |
| Coaxial-Post Gap Equivalence | p. 336 |
| Practicalities | p. 338 |
| Appendices | |
| N-Post Circuit--Impedance Matrix | p. 346 |
| Strip-Post Equivalence Factor | p. 350 |
| Chapter Glossary | p. 352 |
| References | p. 354 |
| Injection-Locked Oscillators | p. 357 |
| Fundamentals | p. 357 |
| Reflection-Type Injection Locking: Steady-State Theory | p. 359 |
| Small-Signal Injection | p. 360 |
| Locking Bandwidth | p. 364 |
| Noise | p. 366 |
| Negative Resistance Amplifiers | p. 368 |
| Reflection-Type Injection Locking: Dynamic Theory | p. 369 |
| The Dynamic Equations | p. 369 |
| Adler's Equation | p. 371 |
| The Locking Transient | p. 371 |
| Spectrum of an Unlocked Oscillator | p. 372 |
| The Circulator Output | p. 374 |
| Phase Modulated Injection Signals | p. 375 |
| Limitations to the Theory | p. 376 |
| Reflection-Type Injection Locking: Design Practicalities | p. 377 |
| Transmission-Type Injection Locking | p. 386 |
| Appendices | |
| Nonlinear Device Reactance Approximation | p. 393 |
| The Load Current at the Circulator Output | p. 395 |
| Locking Bandwidth--An Alternative Derivation | p. 396 |
| References | p. 398 |
| Power Combining | p. 401 |
| Introduction | p. 401 |
| Rectangular Waveguide Resonant Cavity Combiners | p. 403 |
| Theory | p. 406 |
| Injection-Locking Behavior of the Kurokawa-Magalhaes Combiner | p. 411 |
| Combiner Operation Graceful Degradation | p. 412 |
| Circuit Modeling | p. 414 |
| Modified Kurokawa-Magalhaes Combiners | p. 417 |
| Cylindrical Resonant Cavity Combiners | p. 419 |
| Corporate Combiners | p. 425 |
| Hybrid Combiner | p. 426 |
| Chain-Coupled Combiner | p. 432 |
| N-Way Nonresonant Combiners | p. 433 |
| Wilkinson Combiner | p. 434 |
| Radial-Line Combiner | p. 435 |
| Disk Combiner | p. 437 |
| Turnstile Combiner | p. 440 |
| Chip-Level Combiners | p. 440 |
| Other Types of Combiners | p. 443 |
| Spatial Combiner | p. 443 |
| Distributed Circuit Combiner | p. 444 |
| Multiple-Level Combining | p. 447 |
| References | p. 449 |
| Index | p. 453 |
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