Module EC-22

Radio Frequency and Microwave Engineering

The working end of high-frequency electronics, between the wave equations and the finished radio. Impedance and the chart that makes matching a drawing rather than an algebra problem, the scattering description every high-frequency component is specified in, the noise and linearity figures that decide what a receiver can hear and what a transmitter may emit, the three active blocks a radio is built from, the passive structures that filter and split, the measurement and calibration that make any of these numbers believable, and what changes about a printed board once the wavelength is comparable to it.