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SAFETY NOTICE
No part of this text shall be used as a reason for breaking established safety procedures. In theunlikely event of a conflict between this text and established safety procedures, consult the relevantresponsible authority for guidance.
LEGAL NOTICE
Whilst every effort has been made to minimise errors in this text, the author and publisher specificallydisclaim any liability to anyone for any errors or omissions which remain. The reader is required toexercise good judgement when applying ideas or information from this book.
DEVICE DATA
Where specific manufacturers’ data has been quoted, this is purely for the purpose of specificillustration. The reader should not infer that items mentioned are being endorsed or condemned, or any shade of meaning in between.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the assistance of over 100 personally owned textbooks, boxes full of published papers, and years of both assistance and debate with colleagues.All SPICE simulations were done using SIMetrix v2.5.Mathematical simulations and plots were done using Mathcad 13 (Mathsoft) and MS Excel 2003.Word processing was done using MS Word 2003 on an AMD Athlon 62 X2 4200+ processor using2GB of RAM. PDF output was produced using PDF995 by Software995.
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On the front cover is an F-band (90 GHz
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140 GHz) E-H tuner from Custom Microwave Inc. On therear cover is a 2D field plot of the cross-section of a round pipe in a square conduit done using2DField (see the author’s website). The unusual RC circuit on the rear cover gives a maximumvoltage gain of just over 15%. Ordinary RC circuits give less than unity voltage gain.