Behavioral Modeling of Nonlinear RF and Microwave Devices

An explanation of behavioural modelling of nonlinear RF and microwave devices, and a presentation of a powerful curve fitting technique that can be used to describe the behaviour and range of microwave components as a function of multiple independent variables.

List of contents

Common Curve Fitting Techniques. A New Approach to Curve Fitting. Modeling Transistor Devices. Modeling the Non Linear Class A Amplifier. Class AB Amplifiers. Adding Frequency as a Behavioral Model Variable. Adding Temperature as a Variable. Accounting for Parameter Variability. Obtaining Optimum Performance from Cascaded Amplifier Stages. The Sum of All Models. Odds and Ends. Appendices. Index.

About the author

Thomas R. Turlington is a lecturer, author, and a consultant currently teaching with Besser Associates. For 42 years, he held various engineering positions with Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Defense Electronics Center and Northrop Grumman Corporation. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, was a recent recipient of the George Westinghouse Signature Award, and is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas R. Turlington
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1999
• EAN: 9781580530149
• ISBN: 978-1-58053-014-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Series: Artech House Microwave Library
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering