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438A Dual power meter (Agilent)
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7 mm connectors
75 Ohm Proposal
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8510 Network analyzer (Agilent)
8565 Spectrum analyzer (HP)
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The 90 degree property of symmetric coupled lines
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A Prescription For THz Transistor Characterization
ABCD Parameters
ABCS
ABCs of Amplifiers
Ablation, RF
Ablation, RF and microwave
Absorbing Materials
Absorptive versus reflective filters
Active Bias Networks for FETs
Active device, definition of
Active Directivity of Amplifiers
Active versus passive phase shifters
AD8026 clamping amplifier, used for gate pulsing
Adams' resistive splitter
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American Wire Gauge
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Amplifiers
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Amplifiers, distributed
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Amplifiers, low noise (LNAs)
Amplifiers, nonlinearity of
Amplifiers, power

Amplitude modulation (AM) measurement

Amplitude modulation measurements
Analog versus digital phase shifters
Analysis of microwave circuits
Analysis, electromagnetic
Analysis, linear
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AND gate
Android apps for microwaves
Anisotropic material
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Ansoft
Antenna Design
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Antenna gain rule of thumb
Antenna pattern
Antenna range
Antenna, Vivaldi
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Antennas, monopulse
Antimonide-based compound semiconductors
APC-7 connectors
Aperture (smoothing function)
Applications of detectors
Applied Wave Research
Approximation for GMAX
Apps for microwaves
April Fool's trick, microwave
Arithmetic networks (monopulse)
Arizona State University
Armageddon Chart
Armstrong, Edwin
ARRL
Artificial transmission lines
Association of Old Crows
Astronomy, Radio
Atmospheric attenuation
Atmospheric Breakdown
Atmospheric Pressure
Attenuation due to dielectric conductivity
Attenuation due to metal
Attenuation due to radiation
Attenuation constant (alpha)
Attenuation due to dielectric loss tangent
Attenuation in coax
Attenuation in coax
Attenuation in waveguide
Attenuation in waveguides
Attenuation or rejection?
Attenuation, minimizing
Attenuaton in transmission lines
Attenuator Calculator
Attenuator Dissipation
Attenuator errors due to sheet resistance
Attenuator Math
Attenuator resistor dissipation
Attenuator RMS phase and amplitude errors
Attenuator, Quan

Attenuator, Waugh
Attenuators
Attenuators - fixed
Attenuators - reflection
Attenuators - switchable
Attenuators - temperature compensating
Attenuators - variable
Attenuators, L-pad
Auburn University
Automatic network analyzer (ANA)
Automotive Radar
Avagadro's constant
Available gain
Averaging function (network analyzer)
AWG (American wire gauge)
Azimuth
B
B1
Backside process
Backward-wave couplers
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
Bahl and Trivedi[1]
Bakelite
Balanced amplifier VSWR
Balanced Amplifiers
Baluns
Band-pass filter (BPF)
Band-pass lumped element filters
Bandgap
Bandpass filters
Bandwidth
Barium strontium titanate (BST)
Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg
Barrel adapter
Barrow, W. L.
Bart's head
Basic Concepts
Basic concepts of microwave
Basic detector circuit and detector terminology
Basic network theory
Basic RCS reduction approaches
Basics of computational electromagnetics
Basics of Good EMI/EMC Design
Basura
Batman response
Batteries
Bazooka Joe graph
Beads, ferrite
Beam Forming Networks
Beamwidth
Beamwidth, antenna
Being called on the carpet
Bell, Alexander Graham
Beryllium Oxide
Bessel-Thomson
Besser, Les
Best Set-up for measuring power transfer characteristics
Bethe-hole coupler
Better of the two
Bias networks

Bias Tee
Bias tee design using lumped elements
Bias tee, using quarter-wave stubs
Bias voltage versus supply voltage
Big Company disease
Binomial transformer
Binomial transformer: approximate solution
Biological Effects of EM Radiation
Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs)
Bipolar power supplies for the gate
Bipolar transistor
Birds
Bite
Black box
Blindmate - what's that?
Blocking, receiver
Bock, Marvin J.
Bogart
Boltzmann's constant
Bomac historical radar ads
Bomb test (helium)
Boneyard
Books on Microwave Engineering
Boot, Henry Albert Howard
Boresight
Boresight error (BSE)
Boresight error
Bose, Jagadis Chandra (J.C.)
Bottom of this page!
Boules, growing
Boutique foundry
Box modes
Bragg frequency
Bragg, William Henry
Bragg, William Lawrence
Branch-line coupler, three-way
Branchline converted to 180 degree coupler
Branchline coupler, double-box
Branchline coupler, lumped element
Branchline coupler, unequal power split
Branchline Couplers
Braun, Karl Ferdinand
Brazing
Brazing, definition of
Breadboard RF Modulator
Breakdown voltage
Bridged tee attenuator
Broadband Technology Opprotunity Program
Brow, quarter-inch
Brown, William Cyrus
BST (barium strontium titanate)
BTOP
Building the breadboad modulator
Built-in test equipment
Bullet adapter
Butler Matrix
Butterworth
Bypass the supplies
C
Cable Care

Cable Length Rule of Thumb

Cable rule of thumb
Cables, coax
CAD (COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN)
CAD, history of
CADEC
CAIN-01
CAIN-01 (early CAD program)
Cal kit, how (not) to trash it!
Cal Tech
Calculate isolation resistors
Calculating coax loss due to dielectric loss tangent
Calculating a calibration factor
Calculating antenna gain in a phased array
Calculating coax loss due to metal
Calculating maximum sheet conductance (minimum sheet resistance)
Calculating VSWR from an impedance mismatch
Calculator, coax
Calculator, coplanar waveguide
Calculator, dual coax
Calculator, gain/NF/P1dB cascade
Calculator, microstrip
Calculator, reactance
Calculator, resonant frequency
Calculator, skin depth
Calculator, spur search
Calculator, stripline
Calculator, TEM wavelength
Calculator, unequal-split power dividers
Calculator, VSWR
Calculator, wire over ground
Calendar, microwave events
Calibrating the power meter
Calibrating a network analyzer
Calibrating S-parameter Measurements
Calibrating the power test bench
Calibration factor
Calibration factor, calculating
Calibration kit, how (not) to trash it!
Calibration of S-parameter measurements
Can I make a two-tone intermodulation distortion measurement and extrapolate to
get the CTB, CSO and crossmodulation?
Can passive devices cause distortion?
Can you measure Z0 with an ohm-meter?
Capacitance and inductance per unit length
Capacitance of a transmission line
Capacitance, sheet
Capacitive reactance
Capacitor ESR Effects
Capacitor background and definitions
Capacitor equivalent series resistance (ESR)
Capacitor Materials
Capacitor Mathematics
Capacitor parallel resonant frequency
Capacitor resonances
Capacitor, microwave modeling
Capacitor, series-resonant frequency
Capacitor, used for charge storage
Capacitor, used for stability
Capacitors

Capacitors, electrolytic
Capacitors, MOS
Capacitors, multi-layer
Capacitors, single-layer
Capitalization in Acronyms
Captain Safety
Carbon nanotubes
Carc
Career FOM
Career Killers, Microwave
Carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N)
Carrottenuator
CASA Center
Cascade Analysis
Cascade Calculator
Cascaded noise figure analysis
Cascaded Rat-Race Coupler
Cascaded Splitters and Couplers
Cassegrain, Laurent
Cell phone locker, magic
Cell Phones
CEM Basics
Ceramic Capacitors
Chalcogenide switches
Chalmers
Chalmers University of Technology
Change-of-state devices
Changing the system impedance
Characteristic Impedance
Characteristic impedance (Z0)
Characteristic impedance of coax
Charge Storage Capacitors
Cheapline
Chebyshev
Check it out!
Chicken dots
Chip & Wire Construction
ChiTAR
Choke
Choke, RF
Choosing an amplifier
Christian Andreas Doppler
Chromium
Circuit Busters, Superstar, and Eagleware
Circuit card assemblies, microwave
Circular Waveguide
Circularly Polarized Antenna Feed
Circulator, switchable
Circulators
Classes, amplifiers
Classic absorber design #1: Salisbury screen
Classic absorber design #2: Jaumann
Cleaning connectors
Clemson University
CMOS, silicon
CNC machining
Co-fired Ceramics
Coax
Coax attenuation
Coax Attenuation Solution

Coax Cables
Coax cables, industry standards
Coax Calculator
Coax compromise
Coax cutoff frequency
Coax Loss Calculations
Coax Loss due to Dielectric Conduction
Coax Loss due to Loss Tangent
Coax overview
Coax Power Handling
Coax, dual-dielectric calculator
Coax, minimizing attenuation
Coax, multi-dielectric
Coax, off-center
Coax, why fifty Ohms?
Coax-to-waveguide transition
Coefficient, reflection
Cohn, Seymour B.
College programs in microwave engineering
Color code, connector
Color of money
Colorado State University
Combiners, Doherty
Combining, Power
Come to Jesus meeting.
Common components in a superhet receiver
Common filter terminology
Common source
Communication applications
Communications systems using microwaves
COMPACT and SuperCOMPACT
COMPACT software
Compact Wilkinsons
Comparator networks (monopulse)
Comparison of PIN diodes and FETs for switching
Complex permittivity and loss tangent
Composite second order distortion (CSO)
Composite triple beat distortion (CTB)
Compound semiconductor
Compression Point
Computational Electromagnetics
Computer files: common file extensions
Computer-Aided Design
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD)
Computing the S-parameters of two cascaded circuits
Conditional stability versus unconditional stability
Conducting Materials
Conductivity
Conductors
Conferences, microwave
Configuring the power test bench for your DUT
Connector Care
Connector Color Code
Connector saver - what's that?
Connector Sex
Connector species
Connector species and their frequency limitations
Connector Torque
Connectors, precision
Connectors, push-on

Connectors, reverse polarity

Connectors, SMA and SSMA
Connectors, SMB
Connectors, SMC
Connectors, SMP
Connectors, SMPM
Connectors, SSMA
CONSTANTS, PHYSICAL
Constructive interference of two equal VSWRs
Constructive interference of VSWRs
Contact lithography
Continous wave (CW)
Continuous LO range
Continuous wave (CW) signal
Controlling Curve Tracer Oscillations
Conversion factors and units
Cool Site Statistics
Cooler, thermo-electric
Coplanar Waveguide
COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (CPW)
Coplanar Waveguide Calculator
Copper
Copper, ounces of
Corner Reflectors
Corporate power combiner
Corporate Power Dividers
Corporate Tool shirt
Councel
Countermeasures
Countermeasures, electronic
Coupled Line Couplers
Coupled line, 90 degree property
Coupled power combiners
Coupler, microstrip "3dB"
Coupler, patch
Couplers and Splitters
Couplers, backward-wave
Couplers, coupled line
Couplers, forward-wave
CPW mathematics
Creating pulsed waveforms using a switch
Creating pulsed waveforms using an amplifier
Cripp's analysis
Cripps\' Analysis
Crossmodulation
Crossover, RF, using hybrid couplersCS
Cryogenics
Cryogenics in microwaves
Crystal oscillator (XO)
Crystal Oscillators
Crystalline, definition of
Crystals Go to War
Current source transducers
Curve measurements Example I-V
Curve tracer example 1, MESFET I-V curves
Curve tracer example 2, Schottky diode VF
Curve tracer example 3, voltage regulator
Curve Tracer Measurements
Curve tracer models
Curve Tracer Modification

Curve tracer, controlling oscillations

Cut a ruby
Cutoff frequencies
Cutoff wavelength and frequency
CW (continuous wave)
Czochralski method
Czochralski, Jan
D
Dagging
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
DARPA Microwave Programs
Daughter board.
David Arthur Copson
DC and RF resistance of inductors
DC Block
DC block
DC return
De Forest, Lee
De Moura, Father Roberto Landell
De-embedding
De-embedding S-Parameters
Dead bug
Decibels
Decouple the gate and drain supplies
Decoys, electronic
Deep yogurt
Deep-six
DeForest, Lee
Degradation, graceful
Delta port
Depletion-mode FET
Deposit material
Deposition,patterning and etching
Description of download
Design example 1
Designing for high isolation
Designing for High Peak Power
Designing high-speed switches
Designing Wilkinsons in Excel
Detailed measurement procedure example
Detectors
Detectors, history of
Determining filter order
Diamagnetic materials
Diamond versus square lattice
Diamond, use in microwaves
Dicing a wafer
Dielectric and effective dielectric constants
Dielectric conductivity loss
Dielectric constant (DK)
Dielectric constant, effective
Dielectric constant, measuring
Dielectric constants, miscellaneous materials
Dielectric loss tangent
Dielectric loss tangent loss
Dielectric-Loaded Waveguide
Digital Logic for Microwave Circuits
Digital or analog supply?
Digital versus analog phase shifters
Diode, Gunn

Diode, IMPATT
Diode, PIN
Diode, Schottky
Diode, tunnel
Diode, Zener
Diodes, Microwave
Dip-brazing waveguide
Diplexers
Dipole
Directed energy weapons
Directional coupler definitions
Directional Couplers
Directivity
Directivity, antenna
Disappearing reflection coefficient
Discrete Devices
Discrete LO channels
Dispersion
Dispersion
Dispersion in microstrip
Dispersion, low frequency, in TEM
Dissipation factor (DF)
Distortion 101
Distortion in amplifiers
Distortion in mixers
Distortion in oscillators
Distortion measurements
Distortion, composite second order (CSO)
Distortion, composite triple beat (CTB)
Distributed Amplifiers
Distributed elements
Dk and Df Extraction Spreadsheet
Doherty Amplifiers
Dopants
Doppler Shift
Doppler shift equations
Doppler, Christian Andreas
Double-Balanced Mixers
Double-box branchline couplers
Double-Box Branchlines
Double-Ridged Waveguide
Drain efficiency
Drain pulsing
Drain, FET
Drill Sizes
Droop, voltage
Drop, Droop and Roll-Off
Dry-lab
Dual Dielectric Coax Calculator
Dual-Channel Receivers
Dual-directional coupler
Duplexers
Dust caps, connectors
Duty factor
Dynamic Range
Dynamic range
E
E plane, E plane bend
E-beam lithography
E-plane, H-plane and transverse plane

Edge coupler, microstrip equal-split

EEsof Touchstone and Libra
Effect of sheet resistance variation on attenuators
Effective permittivity
Effective dielectric constant
Efficiency factor
Efficiency of Microwave Devices
Efficiency, amplifier
Efficiency, antenna
Efficiency, drain
Efficiency, power added
Efficiency, total
Efficiency, wall-plug
Egg crate construction
Egg crate construction
Eight-Way Wilkinson Example
Elbow connectors
Elbows
Electric-field loss mechanisms
Electro-forming waveguide
Electro-magnetic interference (EMI) measurements
Electro-Static Discharge
Electro-static discharge (ESD)
Electromagnetic Analysis Software
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) measurement
Electromagnetic Wave Fundamentals
Electromagnetics, computational
Electron mass
Electronic bandgap (EBG)
Electronic Bandgap Materials
Electronic Decoys
Electronic design automation (EDA) software
Electronic discharge machining (EDM)
Electronic Warfare
Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems Engineering Handbook
Elevation
EM Analysis Using Sonnet Software
EM Drive
EMI filter
EMI/EMC, Basics of Good Design
Engineering Jokes
Enhancement-mode FET
Envelope tracking
Epitaxy
Epoxies
Epoxy for electronics
Equalizer, linear example 1
Equalizer, linear example 2
Equalizer, parabolic example 1
Equalizers, Gain
Equations for the equal-split case
Equivalent electrical length
Equivalent noise temperature
Equivalent series resistance (ESR)
Error function
Errors due to finite coupler directivity
Errors due to power head non-linearity
Errors due to standing waves
Esaki, Leo
ESD

ESD (electro-static discharge)

ESD Protection Circuits
ESR (equivalent series resistance)
Etch Factor
Eudyna FMM5704
Eutectic
Eutectic solder
Even and Odd Mode Impedances
Even mode impedance
Events calendar, microwave
Evolution of the Lange Coupler
EW and Radar Handbook
Ewen, Harold Irving
Examine that claim.
Example
Example of using smoothing to cheat
Expansion, temperature coefficient
Exploring the degrees of freedom
Exponential transformer
F
Fabless companies (founded in 1985).
Fabless MMIC house.
Far field
Far-field
Faraday, Michael
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor
Featured Encyclopedia Article
Feed horn polarization
Feed, H-tree
Feedback Amplifiers
Feedback, parallel
Feedback, series
Feedthrough, EMI filter
Feedthroughs
Fellowship, IEEE
Ferrite Beads
Ferrite Devices
Ferrite Switches
Ferroelectric materials
Ferroelectric Phase Shifters
Ferromagnetic
Ferromagnetic materials
Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey
FET basics (includes terminology and answers to FAQs)
FET bias networks
FET geometry lesson
FET IV and transfer curves
FET switch driver examples
FETs (Field Effect Transistors)
FETs used in switches
Fifth application
Fifty ohms, why?
Figures of Merit, microwave
Filling Factor
Filter response types
Filter book
Filter design software
Filter Schematic Symbols
Filter, Bessel-Thomson
Filter, Butterworth

Filter, Chebyshev
Filter, Gaussian
Filters
FILTERS, LUMPED ELEMENT
Filters, schematic symbols of
Final-frontside tests
Finding compression points painlessly
Fine leak test
Finite Element Analysis
Finite integration technique
Finline
First metal
FiSH! video
Fixed attenuators
Flat leakage
Flat, wafer
Fleming, John Ambrose
Flexguide (flexible waveguide)
Flexible Waveguide
Flip Chip Technology
Flip-chip technologies, advantages and disadvantages
Flip-Chip Technology for Microwaves
Fluxes
Folk-dancing festivals
Forming gases
Fort Monmouth Signal Corps Laboratories
Forward-wave couplers
Foundries (as in MMICs)
Foundry, boutique
Foundry, pure-play
Four loss mechanisms:
Fourier transforms
FR-4
Fractional dissipation in the Wye resistive splitter
FraudoCAD
Fraunhoffer region
Free EDA software
Free pocketknife!
Free Space Path Loss
Free-space impedance
Frequency bands
Frequency conversion
Frequency letter bands
Frequency letter bands (IEEE Standard 521-1984)
Frequency limitations of lumped element filters
Frequency Meters
Frequency modulation (FM) measurement
Frequency modulation measurements
Frequency Multipliers
Frequency Translators
Frequency, What's the?
Frequently Asked Questions
Fresnel region
Friis equation (cascading noise figure)
Friis, Harald
Fundamentals of electromagnetic waves
Fundamentals of EM Waves
Fundamentals of microwave testing
Fusible alloys
Fuze, VT (WW II)

Fuzz button
G
GaAs bulk properties
GaAs HBT
GaAs MESFET
GaAs MHEMT
GaAs PHEMT
GaAs Poem
GaAs semiconductors
GaAs VPIN diode
Gain
Gain
Gain compression points
Gain compression
Gain Equalizers
Gain equalizers, linear
Gain equalizers, parabolic
Gain expansion
Gain, antenna
Gain, maximum available (GMAX)
Gain, maximum stable (MSG)
Gallium Arsenide
Gallium arsenide bulk properties
Gallium Arsenide Semiconductors
Gallium Nitride
Gallium nitride bulk properties
Gallium Nitride Semiconductors
GaN bulk properties
GaN HEMT
GaN semiconductors
Gate formation
Gate length and width
Gate pulsing
Gate recess
Gate voltage divider
Gate, FET
Gauging connectors
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich
Gaussian
Gel-paks
Generalities
Generic directional coupler schematic symbol
Geometry lesson
Georgia Tech
Gibson, Peter J.
Gift Shop
Gigital
Ginzton, Edward L.
Glass Materials
Glass sealing materials
Gleason, K. Reed
Global Positioning System
Global positioning system (GPS)
Glove box
Going to the woodshed.
Gold
Golden stake of ground
Golden unit
Good choice!
Good enough for government work

Good one
Goofus and Gallant design detectors
Government work
GPO connectors
Graceful degradation
Gradient optimization
Grammar and Punctuation
Granger, Will Robinson!
Grating lobe
Grating Lobes
Great diplexer example
Greek letters in microwave engineering
Greek Letters in Microwaves
Greentape, Ode to (as in LTCC)
Gross leak
Gross leak test
Ground
Ground loop
Group Delay
Group delay
Group delay in waveguide
Group delay - what is it?
Group delay flatness
Group delay flatness and consistency
Group Delay in Filters
Group Delay Measurements
Group delay rule of thumb
Group Delay Simulation
Group delay smoothing
Group velocity
Group velocity
Growing Semiconductor Boules
Growing Starting Material
Guide wavelength
Guillaume, Charles Edouard
Gunn Diode
Gunn diode oscillators
Gunn, John (Ian) Battiscombe
Gunnplexer
Gysel coupler, N-way
Gysel even/odd mode analysis
Gysel N-way Splitter
Gysel Power Splitter
Gysel unequal splitter
Gysel versus rat-race coupler
H
H-tree antenna feed
H-tree feed
Hall of Fame, Microwave
Ham radio
Handy COMPACT
Hansen, William Webster (Bill)
Harald Friis
Hard Substrate Materials
Harmonic frequencies
Harmonic balance method
Harvard University
Hazardous Materials
HBT
HBTs

Heat and temperature effects

Heating with Microwaves
Heaviside, Oliver
Henry, Joseph
Hermeticity
Hermeticity
Hertz, Heinrich
Heterodyne, history of
Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT)
Hewlett Packard.
Hewlett, William
High Permeability Materials
High Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
High-pass lumped element filters
High-Pass?Low-Pass Phase Shifters
Highpass filters
Historical microwave test equipment
Historical radar ads
Historical Test Equipment
History
History of coplanar waveguide
History of RF probes
History of detectors
History of microwave connectors
History of Microwave Engineering
History of microwave oven
History of Microwave Software
History of MMICs
History of the Lange coupler
History of the Microwave Oven
History of the superheterodyne receiver
Homodyne Receivers
Horn Antennas
Hot switching
Housings
How is crossmodulation measured?
How can I tell if distortion is coming from test equipment (e.g. spectrum analyz
er) or the DUT?
How can the effects of coherent carrier frequencies on the consistency of distor
tion measurement be minimized?
How do I measure C/N in the presence of digitally modulated carriers?
How do I measure CTB and CSO?
How does a curve tracer work?
How many sections do you need in a Wilkinson?
How many supplies do you actually need?
How much is that stub worth?
How to (not) Trash a Calibration Kit!
How to avoid grating lobes
How to deal with stuck connectors
How to think in dB
How to use constructive interference when designing with PIN diodes
HP536A Frequency meter
HP805A slotted line
Hull, Albert Wallace
Humor
Huygens, Christiaan
Hybrid (3 dB) couplers
Hybrid (3 dB) couplers, 180 degree
Hybrid (3 dB) couplers, 90 degree
Hybrid circuits

Hybrid Couplers
Hybrid Modules
Hybrid power splitter (branchline)
Hybrid, ring (rat-race power splitter)
Hydrogen getter
Hydrogen poisoning
I
I-V characteristics
Ideal balun model
IDSS (saturated drain current)
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
IEEE MTT Graduate Fellowship
IEEE MTT-S
Illinois Institute of Technology
Image frequency
Image noise foldover
Image Rejection Mixers
Images from Message Board
IMAX (maximum drain current)
IMEC
Impedance matching
Impedance of free space
Impedance of of free space
Impedance, admittance
Impedance, characteristic
Impedance, free-space
Impedance, intrinsic
Important Characteristic of Phase Shifters
Important Shunt Switch Consideration
Indian Institutes of Technology
Indium
Indium Corporation's solder chart
Indium Phosphide
Indium phosphide HEMT
Indium phosphide HBT
Indium Phosphide Semiconductors
Inductance of a transmission line
Inductance, airbridge
Inductance, wirebond
Inductive reactance
Inductor Mathematics
Inductor vendors
Inductors
Infrared transducers
InP
InP HBT
Input/output impedance
Insertion Loss
Insertion loss and gain
Instantaneous bandwidth
Insulator, definition of
Insulators
Interconnect technologies
Intermetallics
Intermodulation products
Intermodulation ratio
Intermodulation, passive
International traffic in arms regulations (ITAR)
Interpolation
Interpolation, linear

Interpolation, linear, using Excel

Intrinsic impedance
Introduction
Introduction to attenuators
Introduction to waveguide
Invar
Ioffe, Abram Fedorovich
Ion implantation
Iowa State College
i
iPhone apps for microwaves
Iridium
Iron
Isolation
Isolation
Isolation implant
Isolation resistors
Isolators
Isotropic material
Isotropic radiator
Isotropy and Anisotropy
ITAR
J
Jauman, Johannes
Jaumann absorber
Johns Hopkins University
Jokes, engineering
Jones, EMT
Josephson Junctions
K
K connectors
K-factor (stability factor)
K-factor and maximum available gain
Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike
Kang splitter
Kansas State University
Keffective
Kentucky windage
Kilby, Jack
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Klopfenstein Taper
Klopfenstein transformer
Klopfenstein, Ralph Walter
Klystrons
Knee voltage
Knife, free offer
Known-good die (KGD)
Kompfner, Rudolf
Kouzoujian Splitter
Kovar
Kraus, John Daniel
Kroemer, Herb
Kulicke, Frederick W.
Kurokawa, Kaneyuki
L
L-pad attenuators
Lab Queen.
Lab rat
Lab, microwave
Laboratory Safety

Laird
Lamarr, Hedy
Lange coupler bias tee
Lange Couplers
Lange, Julius
Large signal cascade analysis
Large signal response, definition of
Large-signal analysis software
Laws of Thermodynamics
Layout examples
LDMOS
Lead
Leak rate
Leak testing
Leakage, flat
Leakage, spike
LEC crystals
Left-handed materials
Letter bands, frequency
Level detector
Lift-off
Light velocity
Light, Phase and Group Velocities
Light, speed of
Lim Eom Power Combiner Example #2
Lim-Eom 3-way Power Splitters
Lim-Eom Power Power Combiner Example #1
Lim-Eom Power Splitters
Limitations of Lange couplers
Limiter nonlinearity
Limiters
Limiters, non-linearity of
Line stretcher example #2
Line Stretchers
Linear CAD Software
Linear CAD software vendors, big and small
Linear Interpolation for Excel
Linear interpolation using Excel
Linearity
Linearizers
Links, microwave
Liquid encapsulated Czochralski (LEC)
Liquidus
Liquidus temperature of solder
Lithography, types of
Liverpool John Moores University
LNA (low noise amplifier)
LNA, series feedback
Load Pull for Power Devices
Load pull, harmonic
Load-Pull Effects on Power Combiners
Loaded-Line Phase Shifters
Log amp
Log Amplifiers
Long green.
Loomis, Alfred Lee
Loss due to dielectric conductivity
Loss due to dielectric loss tangent
Loss due to metal
Loss due to radiation

Loss factor
Loss in transmission lines
Loss of fifty-ohm line on 2-mil GaAs
Loss or gain?
Loss tangent, dielectric
Lossless networks
Lossless networks, properties of
Low Expansion Alloys
Low Frequency Dispersion in TEM Lines
Low hanging fruit!
Low noise amplifier (LNA)
Low Noise Amplifiers
Low noise amplifiers (LNAs)
Low noise block (LNB)
Low noise blocks
Low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC)
Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
Low-pass lumped element filters
Low-pass, high-pass and band-pass
Low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC)
Lowpass filters
Luddite
Lumped Element Bias Tee
Lumped Element Filter Calculator
Lumped element filter calculator instructions
Lumped Element Filters
Lumped element transmission line model
Lumped Element Wilkinson Splitters
Lumped Elements
Lumped elements versus distributed elements
Lumped-element branchline couplers
M
Mackerwave
Magic cell phone locker
Magic Tees
Magnetic Materials
Magnetic-field loss mechanisms
Magnetron
Magram
Mantenna
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marcuvitz, Nathan
Mark 53 Fuze (WW II)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Matched networks, properties of
Matching Networks
Materials for Microwave Engineering
Materials, absorbing
Materials, capactors
Materials, conductor
Materials, glass
Materials, hard substrates
Materials, hazardous
Materials, high permeability
Materials, magnetic
Materials, miscellaneous
Materials, resistor
Materials, soft substrates
Materials, structural
Matthaei ,George

Matthaei, Young and Jones.

Maximally-Flat Impedance Transformers
Maximally-flat transformer
Maximally-Flat Unequal Wilkinson
Maximum gain
Maximum Power Transfer Theorem
Maxwell's Equations
Maxwell, James Clerk
Maxwell\'s Equations
Mayor McCheese,
Mayor McCheese.
McAfee, Walter S.
Meandered gate
Meandered-gate switch FETs
Measure load impedance
Measured data
Measurements and Test Equipment
Measurements, group delay
Measurements, load pull
Measurements, noise parameters
Measurements, power meter
Measurements, spectrum analyzer
Measurements, Z0
Measuring dielectric constant
Measuring Characteristic Impedance
Measuring Dielectric Constant
Measuring dielectric constant from group delay
Measuring return loss with power meters
Measuring Z0 on a Smith chart
Measuring Z0 using ABCD parameters
Measuring Z0 using reflection coefficient
Mechanical Switches
Medical applications - VSWR problems
Medical applications of microwaves
MEMS
MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)
MEMS for microwaves
MEMS Phase Shifters
MEMS phase shifters
MEMS Tree of Woe
MEMS, Riddle of
Men Of Science, Santa Barbara News-Press, 1958
Mesa etch
Mesa Resistors
Mesfet
Message Board Images
Meta-material research at NIT Trichy
Metal loss
Metals and dielectrics
Metamaterials
Metrology
Mhemt
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Microstrip
Microstrip "3 dB" Coupler
Microstrip Calculator
Microstrip equal-split edge coupler
Microstrip loss
Microstrip Loss Calculations
Microstrip Loss due to Substrate Conduction

Microstrip Patch Antennas

Microstrip Via Hole Inductance
Microstrip, minimizing attenuation
Microwave connector overview
Microwave Amateur Radio
Microwave auditory effect
Microwave capacitor model
Microwave Career Killers
Microwave Circuit Card Assemblies
Microwave Colleges
Microwave conferences and events
Microwave Connectors
Microwave Diodes
Microwave Events Calendar
Microwave FET Tutorial
Microwave Figures of Merit
Microwave frequency bands
Microwave frequency spectrum
Microwave Hall of Fame Part I
Microwave Hall of Fame Part II
Microwave Hall of Fame Part III
Microwave Heating
Microwave Imaging
Microwave Impedance Tuners
Microwave industry
Microwave Lab
Microwave Link Calculator
Microwave Measurements
Microwave Medical Applications
Microwave modules
Microwave Mortuary
Microwave oven - testing the seal
Microwave oven history
Microwave Plating 101
Microwave Poetry
Microwave Printed Circuit Boards
Microwave Receivers
Microwave Rules of Thumb
Microwave Semiconductor Processing
Microwave Semiconductor Tradeoffs
Microwave Slang
Microwave Smartphone Apps
Microwave spectroscopy
Microwave spectroscopy
Microwave Switches
Microwave Toilets
Microwave Trade Journals
Microwave Tubes
Microwaves, what are?
Microwaves101 Gift Shop
Microwaves101 Line Stretcher!
Microwaves101 pocketknife offer!
Microwaves101 Rule of Thumb
Microwaves101 Sponsors' Press Releases
Microwaves101 switch FET model
Microwaves101 way to measure Z0
MIL-Specs for Microwaves
MIL-STD-750
Military versus commercial applications
Milking mice

Miller effect
Millimeter-waves
Millimeter-waves versus microwaves
Millimeterwave terminations
MIMIC Program
MIMO - an Historical Tutorial
Minimize drain bias line resistance, and ground return resistance.
Minimizing Attenuation
Minimum detectable signal
Minimum loss matching pad
Miscellaneous Dielectric Constants
Mismatch loss
Mismatch Loss, Etc.
Mission Statement
Missouri University of Science and Technology
MIT Radiation Laboratory
MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
Mitered Bends
Mixed-Mode S-Parameters
Mixer history - heterodyning
Mixer Mess!
Mixer Noise Figure
Mixer nonlinearity
Mixer Spur Chart
Mixer waveforms
Mixers
Mixers, double balanced
Mixers, image rejection
Mixers, nonlinearity of
Mixers, sub-harmonic
MMIC Design
MMIC Phase Shifter Example 1
MMIC Phase Shifter Example 2
MMIC semiconductor technology tradeoffs
MMIC Switch Design Example 2
MMICs
MMICs
MMICs, history of
MMICs, Three-Dimensional
Modeling a Lange coupler
Moding in packages
Modulation measurements
Modulator, RF breadboard
Modulator, vector
Module assembly
Modules, microwave
Monocrystalline, definition of
Monopulse Antennas
Monopulse Comparator Networks
Monopulse comparator using branchline
Monopulse comparator using rat-race
Montana State University
Morkoc, Hadis
MOSFET, used for drain pulsing
Mu1 and Mu2
Mud flaps, six sigma
Mule skinner
Multi-Dielectric Coax
Multi-hole coupler
Multi-layer ceramic capacitors

Multi-section transformers
Multi-section transformers
Multi-state simulation part I
Multi-State Simulations, Part II
Multipaction
Multiplexers
Multiplier nonlinearity
Multipliers
Multipliers, mon-linearity of
Multistage Wilkinsons
Museum of Test Equipment
Mushroom gate
MW101Stuff the Official Microwaves101 Newsletter!
N
N-channel FET
N-way Power Splitters
N-way resistive splitters (equal split)
N-way Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
N-way Wilkinson Splitters
NAND gate
Napier, John
NASA takes over the project
National Taiwan University
National Institute of Technology, Trichy
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Natural resource
Navy Electricity and Electronics Series
Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS)
Navy Handbook on EW and Radar Systems Engineering
Near field
Near-field
Neper, what's a
Nerd pack
Netlist interface
Network Analyzer Measurements
Network Parameters
NETWORK THEORY
Neunundneunzig Luftballons
Never again!
New York University Polytechnic
Nickel
NIP diodes
No Link Provided
Noise Figure
Noise figure (NF) measurement
Noise Figure of Passives
Noise figure, mixer
Noise measurements
Noise Parameter Extraction using Source Pull
Noise Parameters
Noise Temperature
Non-Linear Devices
Non-reciprocal networks, properties of
NONLINEAR DEVICES
Nonlinear Transmission Lines
NOR gate
Normalization
Normalized input/output impedance
North Carolina State University
NOT gate

Null depth, monopulse

Numbering
Nyquist, Harry
O
Octave bandwidth
Odd mode impedance
Ode to GREENTAPE
Oersted, Hans Christian
Off-Center Coax
Ohio State University
Ohm's law
Ohm, Georg Simon
Ohmic metal
Old Crows, Association of
Omnidirectional radiator
On/off isolation
One situation where smoothing is acceptable
Optimization
Optimization, gradient
Optimization, random
OR gate
Orgasmatron
Oscillator, Gunn diode
Oscillators
Oscillators for Microwave Systems
Oscilloscope Measurements
Oscilloscope measurements with detector
Other Capitalization Issues
Other ways to express VSWR
Ounces of copper
Our gang marketing strategy
Oven, microwave, history of
Ovenized crystal oscillator (OXO)
Overlay coupler
Overlay couplers
Owen resistive splitter
Owen resistove splitter example #1
Owen Splitter
Owen Splitter Example #1
Oxygen absorption bands
P
P-channel FET
P1dB
Packaging
Packaging
Packaging, assembly, and interconnects
Packard, David
Pain ray
Palladium
Parabolic Gain Equalizers
Parabolic reflector
Parabolic Reflector Antennas
Parallel feedback
Parallel LC resonance
Parallel Plate Waveguide
Parallel-plate capacitance
Paramagnetic
Paramagnetic materials
Parameters, noise
Parametric amplifiers

Particle impact noise detection (PIND)

Pascal's triangle
Paschen's Law
Paschen, Friedrich
Passivation
Passive versus active devices
Passive device, definition of
Passive intermodulation
Passives, noise figure of
Patch antenna, microstrip
Patch Coupler
Pattern
Pattern, antenna
Peak power, designing for
Peak sidelobe ratio
Peltier effect
Pengelly, Raymond
Penzias, Arno Allan
Percent bandwidth
Percentage bandwidth
Percentage smoothing
Performance reviews.
Periodic Chart
Periodic Chart of the Elements
Periphery, gate
Permeability
Permeability of free space
Permittivity
Permittivity of free space
Permittivity, complex
Permittivity, relative
PESAs
Phase constant (beta)
Phase delay
Phase noise
Phase shifter background
Phase Shifter Multi-State Simulation
Phase Shifter RMS Amplitude Error
Phase Shifter RMS Phase Error
Phase Shifters
Phase shifters - active
Phase shifters - an important characteristic
Phase shifters - digital versus analog
Phase shifters - example 1
Phase shifters - example 2
Phase shifters - ferroelectric
Phase shifters - high-pass/low-pass
Phase shifters - loaded line
Phase shifters - MEMS
Phase shifters - multi-state simulation
Phase shifters - quadrature
Phase shifters - rat-race
Phase shifters - reflection
Phase shifters - RMS amplitude error
Phase shifters - RMS phase error
Phase shifters - Schiffman
Phase shifters - switched filter
Phase shifters - switched line
Phase shifters - true time delay
Phase shifters - varactor

Phase velocity
Phase velocity and group velocity
Phased Array Antennas
Phased array grating lobes
Phased array lattice
PHEMT devices
PHEMT inventors
Photolithography 101
Physical Constants
Physical versus ideal elements
Pi attenuator
Pi network, definition of
Pidooma
Piece of work.
PIN Diodes
PIN diode switch driver examples
PIN Diode 180 Degree Phase Shifter
PIN Diode Switches
PIN diode switches
Pinch-off voltage
Pink-slip blizzard
Pissa
Pizza mask
Planck's constant
Plating for Microwaves
Platinum
Playground.
Plextek RFI
Plotting power transfer characteristics
Plunkett, Roy J.
Plurals
Pocket Knife Keychain
Pocket Protector
Pocketknife, free
Poem on GaAs
POETRY, MICROWAVE
Poetry, Microwave
Pogo pins.
Polarization
Polycrystalline, definition of
Polytechnic University of New York
Porcelain
Portmanteau in engineering
Portmanteaux in Engineering
Possible future topics
Post-gate tests
Power amp designer 101
Power Amp Designer101!
Power Amplifiers
Power combiner load-pull effects
Power Combining
Power combining, corporate
Power combining, coupled
Power combining, phase efficiency
Power combining, radial
Power combining, spacial
Power density calculation
Power Divider Calculator
Power factor
Power Handling

Power handling of power heads

Power heads
Power heads - power handling
Power meter - calibrating
Power meter - errors
Power meter basics
Power meter measurement errors
Power Meter Measurements
Power rating/thermal considerations
Power splitters and combiners
Power supply current limit
Power supply sequencing
Power supply transients
Power transfer characteristics
Power transfer characteristics, measuring with power meter
Power-added efficiency (PAE)
Poynting Vector
Poynting vector
Poynting, John Henry
Pozar's book
Pozar, David M.
Precision Connectors
Predistorter
Press Releases
Pressure, atmospheric
Printed wiring boards, RF
Probing, RF
Problems with VSWR in Medical Applications
Projection lithography
Propagation Constant
Propagation constant (gamma)
Prospector
PTFE
PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene)
Puff
Pulse period
Pulse repetition frequency (PRF)
Pulsed versus CW
Pulsed amplifiers
Pulsed RF measurements
Pulsed RF source breadboard
Pulsed RF Sources
Punctuation
Purcell, Edward Mills
Purdue University
Pure-play
Pure-play foundry
Push-On Connectors
PWBs, RF
Q
Quadraplexer
Quadrature couplers
Quadrature phase shifter
Quadrature Reflection Phase Shifters
Quality factor
Quality factor (Q), capacitor
Quan Attenuator
Quarter-inch brow
Quarter-wave stubs
Quarter-wave Transformers

Quarter-wave Tricks
Quartz
Quaternary compound semiconductor
Qucs
Quiescent point
R
R-card
Rad Lab (MIT)
Radar
Radar Absorbers
Radar cross-section examples
Radar Cross-Section Physics
Radar cross-section physics
Radar Love (song)
Radar range equation
Radar, automotive
Radar101
Radial power combiners
Radiation Laboratory at MIT
Radiation loss
Radiator
Radio Astronomy
Radio frequency identification
Radio songs
Radio, amateur
Radio, software defined
Radiometric Receivers
Radiometry
Radomes
Randall, John T.
Random optimization
Range (coordinate)
Ranges, antenna
Rat-race coupler cascaded
Rat-race coupler, unequal power split
Rat-race couplers
Rat-race versus Gysel coupler
Rat-Race versus Gysel Splitters
Rayleigh, Lord (John William Strutt)
RCA
Re-entrant modes
Reactance and Admittance Calculator
Reactance calculator
Receiver Blocking
Receiver terminology
Receivers, dual-channel
Receivers, homodyne
RECEIVERS, MICROWAVE
Receivers, radiometric
Receivers, superheterodyne
Reciprocal versus non-reciprocal devices
Reciprocal networks, properties of
Reciprocity
Reciprocity, antenna
Recommended design procedure
Recovery Time Measurement
Rectangular Waveguide Dimensions
Rectax
Rectennas
Recticoax

Reed-type coax switches

Reentrant modes
Reference plane extensions
Reference Planes
References
Reflection attenuator
Reflection Attenuators
Reflection coefficient
Reflection coefficient
Reflection Coefficient Sniffer
Reflection Phase Shifters
Reflectometer
Reflector analysis
Reflector Analysis and Accuracy
Reflector, parabolic
Relationship between VSWR and ripple for a filter
Relationship of L' and C' to Z0 and VP
Reliability
Remote sensing
Remote sensing and countermeasure applications
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Replacepagetitle
Resistance Temperaturd Devices (RTDs)
Resistance temperature coefficient
Resistance temperature devices
Resistance, Sheet, DC
Resistance, sheet, RF
Resistance, temperature coefficient
Resistive Power Splitters
Resistive Taps
Resistivity
Resistor
Resistor materials
Resistor math
Resistor Mathematics
Resistor Trimming
Resistors
Resistors for microwave frequencies
Resistors and Terminations
Resistors in drain supply networks?
Resistors, isolation
Resistors, mesa
Resistors, thick-film
Resistors, thin-film
Resistors, trimming
Resizing components for available values
Resonance, LC circuits
Resonance, parallel LC
Resonance, series LC
Resonances
Resonances of RLC circuits
Resonant Cavities
Resonant Frequency Calculator
Resonant structures for overcoming FET capacitance
Resonating switch-FET off-capacitance
Reticle
Retirement package
RETMA Values
RETMA values for lumped components
Return loss

Return loss, measuring with power meter

Reverse engineering
Reverse polarity connectors
Rexolite, dielectric properties
RF ablation
RF choke
RF Lighting
RF modulator breadboard
RF printed wiring board hints
RF probe tests
RF Probing
RF problems?
RF Sheet Resistance
RF sheet resistance in multilayer media
RF sheet resistance.
RF-RF crossovers
RFID
RG6 CATV coax cable: an example
Rhodium
Riblett coupler
RIF
Right mess
Ring hybrid (rat-race power splitter)
Ring or Crossover?
RMS amplitude error of phase shifter
RMS Phase and Amplitude Errors
RoHS
Rollett's stability factor (K-factor)
Rotary Joints
Rotman Lens
Rough Justice
Round coax conversion rule
Rule of Six dB
Rule of thumb
Rule-of-thumb
S
S-parameter "sniff test"
S-parameter magnitude
S-parameter magnitude in dB
S-parameter Utilities Spreadsheet
S-parameters
S-parameters
S-parameters, cold
Safety, laboratory
Saleh Power Divider
Salisbury Screen
Sampling scope measurements
San Diego State University
Sandbox
Sapphire
Scalar network analyzer
Scardelletti splitter
Scatterer
Schematic capture interface
Schematic capture versus netlist interface
Schiffman Phase Shifters
Schiffman, Bernard M.
Schottky Diodes
Schottky metal
Schottky, Walter

Schwarz, Hermann
scikit-rf
Scratting
Seam Sealer
Second metal
Seebeck effect
Selected receiver topics
Selected topics on superhet receivers
Selecting a power supply
Self Resonant Frequency
Self-biasing
Self-biasing network
Self-resonant frequency
Semi-insulator, definition of
Semi-insulators
Semi-rigid coax
Semiconductor technology tradeoffs
Semiconductor, definition of
Semiconductors
Semiconductors
Seoul National University
Series feedback
Series LC resonance
Shannon, Claude Elbert
Sharkbite mitre
Sheet capacitance
Sheet conductivity
Sheet Resistance
Sheet resistance
Sheet resistance and conductivity.
Sheet resistance and sheet conductance as functions of frequency
Sheet resistance, DC
Sheet resistance, RF
Short bus
Short-slot hybrid (waveguide)
Short-Slot Waveguide Hybrid
Shunt connections: important consideration
Shunt versus series elements
Sidebands
Sidelobes
Siemens, Ernst Werner
SIGABA
Signal Corps Laboratories, Fort Monmouth
Silicon
Silicon Carbide
Silicon Dioxide
Silicon germanium
Silicon Semiconductors
Silver
Single-box branchline couplers
Single-layer capacitors
Single-stub matching
SIW (substrate integrated waveguide)
Six application
Six Sigma
Six Sigma
Skin Depth
Skin Depth Calculator
Slab line
SLANG, MICROWAVE

Slayton, William T.
SLCFET
Sliding load
Slotline
Slotted Line Measurements
Slow-Wave Structures
SMA and SSMA Connectors
SMA connectors
Small signal cascade analysis
Small signal response, definition of
Smartphone Apps for Microwaves
SMB Connectors
SMB push-on connectors
SMC Connectors
SMITH CHART
Smith Chart Basics
Smith chart in Excel
Smith chart plots
Smith Chart, 3D
Smith, Hurley
Smith, Phillip Hagar
Smoothing Group Delay Data
Smoothing is Cheating!
Smoothing percentage
Smoothing versus averaging
Smoothing versus averaging data
SMP Connectors
SMPM Connectors
Sniff tests for good S-parameter data
Sniffer
Sniffer as an S4P file
Sniffer, reflection coefficient
SNP file format
SNP Format
Socialize
Soffa, Albert
Soft Substrate Materials
Soft-jaw pliers, where to buy
Software Defined Radio
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Software for Circuit Layout
Software, electro-magnetic simulation
Software, filter design
Software, linear analysis
Software, non-linear analysis
Solder
Solder chart (courtesy of Indium Corporation)
Solder for microwave assemblies
Solder pastes
Solder preforms
Soldering
Soldering Basics
Soldering terminology
Solders
Solenoid inductance
Solid state power amplifier (SSPA)
Solid State power amplifiers
Solid-State Switches
Solidus
Solidus temperature

Solving Equations with Linear Interpolation

Some basic solders
Some definitions
Some definitions
Some industry-standard coax cables
Some quirks
Some Smith chart links
Some SPDT reflective switch examples
Songs about Radar
SONNET example 1: fifty-ohm line loss
SONNET example 2: fan-stub terminations
SONNET FOR EM ANALYSIS
Sonnet Software
SOURCE PULL FOR NOISE PARAMETERS
Source via holes
Source, FET
Source-drain metal
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Southworth, George C.
Spacial power combining
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
SPDT switch design
Special properties of three-port networks
Spectroscopy, microwave
Spectrum analyzer data
Spectrum analysis
Spectrum Analyzer
SPECTRUM ANALYZER MEASUREMENTS
Specular reflection
SPEEDY (early CAD program)
Spelling
Spencer, Percy
Spice Analysis
Spike leakage
Spiral inductor (wire)
Spiral inductors
Split Tee Power Divider
Split-tee power divider
SPLITTER, POWER
Sponsorship Information
SPST switch (switch arm) design
SPST switch design
Spur chart, mixer
Spur Search
Spur search, continuous LO
Spur search, discrete LO
Spur-search background
Squarax
Square-law range
Squib
SSMA adapters
SSMA connectors
SSPAs - a special consideration
Stability - what is it?
Stability factor
STABILITY FACTOR AND AVAILABLE GAIN
Stability, conditional
Stability, unconditional
Stable local oscillator (STALO)
Stable gain

Standing waves in nature

Starting material, semiconductor
Static versus pulsed I-V curves
Static sensitivity
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus
Stiction
Storing connectors
Stretcher, line
Strid, Eric W.
Stripline
Stripline calculator
Stripline, minimizing attenuation
Structural Materials
Stub tuner diplexer
Stuck connector, how to deal with
Sub-Harmonic Mixers
Substrate Integrated Waveguide
SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE (SIW)
Substrate integrated waveguide attenuation
Substrate materials, hard
Substrate materials, soft
Suck-outs.
Sucks con queso
Sulfur light bulb
Sum port
Sunshine Club
SUPER STAR software
Superconductors
Superheterodyne Receivers
Superheterodyne, history of
Supply modulation techniques
Surface acoustic wave (SAW) components
Surface Roughness
SWAG
SWaP, or SWaP-C
SWaPP
Switch considerations and terminology
Switch Design
Switch device models
Switch Drivers
Switch element, figure of merit
Switch FET geometric modeling
Switch FET power handling
Switch FETs
Switch FETs and FET Switches
Switch Power Handling
Switchable Attenuators
Switched Filter Phase Shifters
Switched Line Phase Shifters
SWITCHES
Switches, bandwidth
Switches, chalcogenide
Switches, coax
Switches, driver considerations
Switches, ferrite
Switches, mechanical
Switches, MEMS
Switches, PIN diode
Switches, power handling
Switches, shunt, an important consideration

Switches, solid state

Switches, waveguide
Switching Figure of Merit for FETs and PIN diodes
Switchplexer
Symposia, microwave
Synthesis of microwave circuits
T
Tangent, loss
Tank circuits
Tantalum
Tapered slot antenna (TSA)
Tapered Transformers
Tarmac (tar macadam) Scottish Engineer
TDU (time delay unit)
TE11 mode in coax
Technical Writing
Technical Writing for Engineers
Tee attenuator
Tee gate
Tee network, definition of
Tee or pi network?
Tee versus pi networks
Telegrapher's equations
TEM mode
TEM Wavelength Calculator
Temperature coefficient of expansion
Temperature Coefficient of Resistance
Temperature effects
Temperature Expansion
Temperature Measurement
Temperature modeling of S-parameters
Temperature sensing
Temperature, equivalent noise
Temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO)
TeraHertz
Terahertz Systems
Terman, Frederick Emmons
Ternary compound semiconductor
Tesla, Nikola
Test equipment
Test Equipment Museum
Test Equipment on Ebay
Test fixtures
t
test hm
Test leads
Testing
Testing the breadboard modulator
Texas A&M
Theory of relativity
Theory of the Lange coupler
Theremin, Leon
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Conductivity
Thermistors
Thermo-electric coolers
Thermocouples
Thermodynamics, laws of
Thermoelectric Coolers
Thick Film

Thick film resistor fabrication

Thick film resistor fabrication
Thick-film chip resistors
Thick-Film Resistors
Thin film networks
Thin-Film Networks
Thin-Film Resistors
Third order intercept measurement
Third-order intercept measurement
Three Dimensional Smith Chart
Three-D Smith Chart
Three-port networks, properties of
Three-way Branchline Coupler
Three-Way Planar Wilkinsons
Throw under the bus
Thru (as in thru-line measurement)
Tiberio, Ugo
Time delay
Time Delay Unit (TDU)
Time Domain Reflectometry
Time for a Lange
Tin
Titanium
Toilets, microwave
Tonya Harding
Toroid inductance
Torque Wrench
Torque, connector
Total efficiency
TOUCHSTONE software
Touchstone file
Toxic waste
TR module
Trade Journals, Microwave
Transducer loss (or gain)
Transducer loss and gain
Transfer characteristics
Transformer, binomial
Transformer, exponential
Transformer, Klopfenstein
Transformer, maximally flat
Transformer, multi-section
Transformer, quarter-wave
Transformer, tapered
Transit time
Translators, frequency
Transmission Line Loss
Transmission line loss Rule of Thumb 1
Transmission line model
Transmission Line Model
Transmission line rule of thumb 2
Transmission line tool
Transmission line, artificial
Transmission Lines
Transmission lines and characteristic impedance
Transmission lines, non-linear
Transmission lines, slow-wave
Transmit/Receive Modules
Transverse Electro-Magnetic
Transverse electromagnetic mode (TEM)

Trap
Traveling wave splitter
Traveling wave tube amplifier (TWT or TWTA)
Traveling wave tubes
Traveling wave tubes (TWTs)
Triplexer
TSC426/427/428 MOSFET drivers
Tubes, Microwave
Tunable bandwidth
Tuners, microwave impedance
Tungsten
Tuning
Tuning waveguide parts
Tunnel Diodes
Turner, J.
Tweaking
Tweaks
Twelfth-wave transformer
Two terminals versus three terminals
Two-port Wilkinson
Type N connectors
Types of coplanar waveguide
Types of detector diodes
Types of FETs
Types of lithography
Types of PIN diodes
Types of probes
Typical GaAs FET process steps
U
Uda, Shintaro
Underneath the Radar (song)
Unequal Gysel splitter
Unequal Gysel splitters
Unequal Gysel Type 1
Unequal Gysel Type 2
Unequal power splitters
Unequal rat race redux
Unequal split power dividers
Unequal-split branchline couplers
Unequal-split rat-race couplers
Unequal-Split Wilkinsons
Unequal-split Wilkinsons - the rest of the story
Unilateral versus non-unilateral devices
Unilateral device
Unique four-way splitter
Units and Convesion Factors
University of Birmingham
University of Califonia San Diego
University of California Davis
University of California Irvine
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Santa Barbara
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Oklahoma
University of Ottawa

University of Peradeniya
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez
University of South Africa
University of South Florida
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Virginia
Unstable Amplifier Examples
Unstable amplifiers, examples of
Unwrapped phase
Ury, Michael
Using back-to-back hybrids to achieve an RF-RF crossover
V
V connectors
Van der Pauw measurements
Varactor Phase Shifters
Varactors
Variable Attenuators
Variable frequency microwave
Variables, circuit
Varian ads, historical
Varian brothers, Sigurd and Russell
Varian radar ads, historical
Varian Radar Ads-Historical
VBR
Vector Modulator
Vector network analyzer (VNA)
Velocity factor
Velocity of light
Velocity, group
Velocity, light
Velocity, light in free space
Velocity, phase
Via hole inductance
Video Links New
Video terminal
Vipec
Virginia Tech
Virginia, University of
Virtual Lobby
Visual inspection
Visualizing VSWR
Vivaldi Antenna
Vlad's lumped element filter calculator
Vlad's Lumped Element Filter Designer
VNA Help!
Void the warrantee
Volta, Alessandro
Voltage controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO)
Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)
Voltage controlled temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (VCTCXO)
Voltage droop
Voltage drop
Voltage follower
Voltage regulators
Voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR)
Voltage standing waves
Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs)
VPIN diode
VPO
VSWR

VSWR
VSWR (VOLTAGE STANDING WAVE RATIO)
VSWR and return loss
VSWR Calculator
VSWR, calculating from load impedance
VSWR, problems in medical applications
VSWR, visualizing
VT Fuze (WW II)
W
Wafer processing
Wafer stepper
Waffle-paks
Wall-plug efficiency
Wallet is in the room
Water absorption bands
Water, dielectric properties
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert A.
Waugh Attenuator
Waugh, Raymond W.
Waveguide
Waveguide components
Waveguide Construction
Waveguide cut-off frequency
Waveguide dimensions
Waveguide group delay
Waveguide group velocity
Waveguide guide wavelength
Waveguide letter bands
Waveguide Loss
Waveguide Mathematics
Waveguide operating band
Waveguide phase velocity
Waveguide Primer
Waveguide switches
Waveguide to coax transitions
Waveguide transitions
Waveguide wave impedance
Waveguide, circular
Waveguide, dielectric loaded
Waveguide, double-ridged
Waveguide, flexible
Waveguide, parallel plate
Wavemeters
Wavenumber
Webb splitter
Welding
Welding - laser
Welding - resistance
Welding on the lid
Welding, definition of
Wen, Cheng P.
Wench bench
What makes a microwave engineer?
What about outsourcing?
What is crossmodulation?
What are composite triple beat and composite second order distortions?
What are I-V curves?
What are the important considerations in setting signal source levels for my DUT
?
What causes distortion?

What do all those knobs do?

What is carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N) and how is it measured?
What is cascade analysis?
What is characteristic impedance
What is smoothing?
What is the relationship between carrier level and second and third order distor
tions?
What RF bandwidth filter should I use for distortion measurement?
What types of distortions are important in a cable system?
What"s the frequency?
What's a Neper?
What's a Smith Chart?
What's so special about a quarter-wavelength?
What's that antenna?
What's the frequency?
Wheeler's formula (inductance)
Wheeler, Harold Alden
When measuring C/N how do I compensate/determine test equipment noise contributi
on?
Where are They Now?
Which way is up and where's that short circuit?
White-wire
Why do some measurements appear choppy ?
Why does the carrier level drop when the carrier is modulated?
Why Fifty Ohms?
Why is square modulation used as a test signal when the TV signal SYNC is clearl
y a much narrower pulse?
WiGig
Wilkinson Isolation
Wilkinson isolation load
Wilkinson power splitter, compact
Wilkinson power splitter, designing with Excel
Wilkinson power splitter, eight-way example
Wilkinson power splitter, lumped element
Wilkinson power splitters
Wire Over Ground Impedance Calculator
Wire Transmission Lines
Wire-wound inductors
Wirebond attenuation
Wirebond Impedance and Attenuation
Wirebond inductance
Wirebond inductance rule of thumb
Wirebond resistance
Wirebonding
Wireless
Women in Microwaves
X
XNOR gate
XOR gate
Y
Yagi, Hidetsugu
Yagi-Uda antenna
Yield
YIG Technology
Yittrium iron garnet (YIG) components
Young, Leo
Z
Z0 (characteristic impedance)
Z0, measuring
Zahl, Harold A.

Zener Diodes
Zinc
Zirconium
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