Nonlinear Microwave and RF Circuits

Аннотация

Back in the days when I had a lot more energy and a lot less sense, I wrote the first edition of this book. I had just finished writing Microwave Mixers, and friends kept asking me, “Well, are you going to write another one?” Sales of Mixers were brisk, and the feedback from readers was encouraging, so it was easy to answer, “Sure, why not?” After a year of painful labor, Nonlinear Microwave Circuits was born. The first edition of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits was published in 1988. It was well received and continued to sell well, even in a reprint edition, for the next 13 years. Now, it is out of print, and properly so: nonlinear circuit technology has advanced well beyond the material in the first edition of that book. In 1988, general-purpose harmonic-balance simulators had just become available, a workstation computer with an 8- MHz processor and 12 megabytes of memory was the state of the art, cell phones were the size of a shoebox, and the term microwave bipolar transistor was an oxymoron.