Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques

George D. Vendelin is a technical consultant with over 40 years of microwave engineering design and teaching experience. HIs clients include Texas Instruments, Anritsu, Ford Aerospace/Loral Space & Communications/Lockheed Martin, and Litton/Filtronics. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, and UC-Berkeley-Extension. Prof. Vendelin is a Fellow of the IEEE.Anthony M. Pavio, Ph.D., is an independent consultant, specializing in the design of RF and microwave components for military and commercial electronics. During the last eight years, his consulting projects for General Dynamics encompassed the development of several broadband hand-held transceivers and power amplifiers for X-band phased array RADAR. He was previously the manager of the Integrated RF Ceramics Center for Motorola Labs, which focused on the development of highly integrated active LTCC modules for communications. Dr. Pavio was also a technical director of the microwave products division of Texas Instruments and is a Fellow of the IEEE.Ulrich L. Rohde is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corporation; a partner of Rohde & Schwarz, a firm specializing in test equipment and advanced communications systems; and Professor of Microwave and RF Technology at the Technische Universitat Cottbus, Germany and other Universities. Prof. Rohde specializes in Low Noise Oscillators, High Performance Mixers and Synthesizers and has published more than 200 papers and eight books. Prof. Rohde is a Fellow of the IEEE.Matthias Rudolph, PhD, is the Ulrich-L.-Rohde Professor for RF and Microwave Techniques at Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany. Previously he worked at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik (FBH), Berlin, where he was responsible for the modeling of GaN HEMTs and GaAs HBTs and for heading the low noise components group. Prof. Rudolph is a Senior member of the IEEE.