Description
RF and Microwave Filters Handbook provides a complete design workflow for design filters that solve real problems in RF, microwave, and power systems. It details how to translate requirements into working circuits, demonstrating what can be built with real components, while avoiding costly, wasted iterations. This guide establishes a strong foundation in transfer functions, impedance, gain, and Bode plots, then provides practical tests for realizability that prevent hours lost on impossible designs.
The book systematically covers the three major low-pass prototypes—Butterworth, Chebyshev, and elliptic—then details the standard transformations for deriving high-pass and band-pass responses. Design of active low-pass and high-pass filters using op-amps, resistors, and capacitors is explained with working formulas, including Sallen and Key and inverting/noninverting topologies. This text also covers Bessel-Thom son filters for flat group delay and transient response. Gain command of both frequency-domain and time-domain analysis tools, including SPICE simulations, and access complete tables of component values for singly and doubly loaded networks across multiple filter families.
This is an indispensable reference for electrical engineers, RF circuit designers, and advanced students who need first-pass success in filter design. Get immediate solutions to real-world problems in RF power amplifier design, EMI suppression, and power converter filtering through coverage of synthesis methods, LC and lattice filters, attenuator pads, bridged-T filters, and universal switched-capacitor filters. This crucial reference equips professionals to achieve accurate and efficient filter designs, saving significant time and costs in the development cycle.
Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. NETWORK FUNCTIONS
1.1 Bode Plots
?1.2 Single-Pole High Pass
?1.3 Angle Plots
?1.4 Quadratic Factors
1.5 Quadratic Step Response
1.6 Graphs of Other Factors
1.7 Problems
2. REALIZING NETWORK FUNCTIONS
?2.1 Allowed Forms of H(s)
2.2 Simple Tests for P(s)
?2.3 Hurwitz Tests
2.4 Comments
2.5 H(s) from the Magnitude-Squared
2.6 Scaling
2.7 Problems
3. BUTTERWORTH, CHEBYSHEV, AND ELLIPTIC FILTERS
?3.1 Butterworth
3.2 Pole Locations
3.3 Chebyshev Magnitude
?3.4 Peaks and Valleys
?3.5 Chebyshev Asymptote
?3.6 Practical Matters
?3.7 Cutoff
3.8 Chebyshev Poles
?3.9 Components
3.10 Introduction to Elliptic Filters
?3.11 Problems
4. TRANSFORMATIONS
4.1 High Pass
4.2 Band Pass
4.3 Elements
4.4 Reciprocity and Duality Transforms
4.5 Problems
5. ACTIVE LOW-PASS AND HIGH-PASS FILTERS
?5.1 Noninverting Amplifier
?5.2 Inverting Amplifier
?5.3 Single Pole Low Pass
5.4 Practical Matters
5.5 Sallen and Key High Pass
?5.6 Troubleshooting Again
?5.7 Sensitivity
5.8 Problems
Appendix 5A: Sallen and Key Equations
?Sensitivity Relations: Sallen and Key Low Pass
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6. ACTIVE BAND-PASS FILTERS
?6.1 Finding Q, ωo, and μ
?6.2 Circuits
6.3 Sallen and Key Revisited
?6.4 Problems
Appendix A6: Additional Bandpass Calculations
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7. TIME DELAY
7.1 The Effect of Frequency Scaling
?7.2 Bessel Filters
?7.3 Cutoff Frequency
7.4 Problems
8. TIME DOMAIN
8.1 Ideal Filters
?8.2 Problems
Appendix 8A: Ideal Low-Pass Step Response
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9. INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIS
?9.1 Foster’s Reactance Theorem
?9.2 Cauer Synthesis
?9.3 Singly Terminated Ladder
?9.4 Balanced Symmetric Lattice Network
?9.5 Attenuators
9.6 All-Pass Networks
?9.7 Symmetric Network Analysis
?9.8 Problems
10. UNIVERSAL FILTERS
10.1 Switched-Capacitor Integrator
?10.2 All-Pole Low Pass Design
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11. TWO-PORT PARAMETERS
11.1 Impedance (Z) Parameters
?11.2 Admittance (Y) Parameters
11.3 Cascade (ABCD) Parameters
?11.4 Hybrid (h) Parameters
?11.5 Scattering (S) Parameters
?11.6 Transmission (T) Parameters
?11.7 Problems - Appendix 11A: Conversions
11A.1 Impedance
11A.2 Admittance
11A.3 Cascade
11A.4 Hybrid
11A.5 Scattering: Cascade
?11A.6 Scattering: Transmission
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A. SPICE EXAMPLES
?A.1 Frequency Response of an LC Filter
?A.2 Step Response
A.3 Op Amp Models
A.4 Active Low Pass
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B. COMPONENTS
B.1 Guide to Capacitors
B.2 Guide to Inductors
?B.3 General Considerations
SOLUTIONS MANUAL
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX