Here is the first and only book that brings together all of the information currently available on solid-state radar transmitters. If you're a radar design engineer, system planner, or if you work in solid-state high power RF amplifiers - you'll find that Solid-State Radar Transmitters gives you the background and technical explanations to fully understand this rapidly growing technology. You'll receive all aspects of design and system architecture for solid-state radar transmitters, including both practical design guidance and comprehensive theoretical discussions. Throroughly up-to-date, Solid-State Radar Transmitters emphasizes the technical characteristis common to all high power transmitters. Solid-State Radar Transmitters provides a broad review of solid-state transmitters, with emphasis on overall reliability, efficiency and life-cycle cost. Solid-State Radar Transmitters features the following: a comprehensive explanation of how many low-power devices combine efficiently in a power combiner network to form a solid-state radar transmitter; microwave power transistor design and manufacturing techniques and their role in integrating the device package into the power amplifier module for optimum RF matching and heat transfer; an in-depth presentation of the corporate structure amplifiers (CSA) - a hierarchical design power amplifier applicable to both phased array and single feedpoint antennas; detailed explanations of the principles and design approaches necessary to determine the cost-effectiveness of solid-state radar transmitters - which employ a large number of active elements, and have a small chance of total system failure - versus the single vacuum tube radar transmitters - which have a greater chance of total system failures; extensive coverage is given to the design of new power combiners for both miniaturized low power application and for high power networks encountered in single feedpoint systems; detailed methods are presented illustrating the design of power amplifier modules, which further enhance the solid-state transmitter maintainability; a review of a series of successful, working transmitter designs that have demonstrated the reliability and practicality of solid-state radar transmitters; detailed discussion of microwave device design and manufacturing techniques and the importance of integrating the device package into solid-state designs; presented throughout the book are a number of examples featuring new design data on RF bipolar transistors for class C amplifier design.
Introduction. RF Power Transistors. Power Amplifier Design. The Corporate Structure Amplifier. Power Combiner Design. Power Amplifier Modules. Power Supply and Energy Storage Design. Reliability of Solid-State Radar Transmitters. Examples of Successful Solid-State Radar Transmitter Designs. Appendix.