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    This document summarizes key concepts about microwave amplifiers from Chapter 5 of a microwave engineering textbook. It defines the roles of microwave amplifiers as generating power from a source and delivering maximum power to a network while dissipating power in a load. It provides equations for transducer power gain using S-matrix relations and conditions for stable matching circuits, including unconditional and conditional stability. The document concludes with an example of checking stability and using conjugate matching and the Smith chart to design a matching circuit for maximum gain.

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    This document summarizes key concepts about microwave amplifiers from Chapter 5 of a microwave engineering textbook. It defines the roles of microwave amplifiers as generating power from a source and delivering maximum power to a network while dissipating power in a load. It provides equations for transducer power gain using S-matrix relations and conditions for stable matching circuits, including unconditional and conditional stability. The document concludes with an example of checking stability and using conjugate matching and the Smith chart to design a matching circuit for maximum gain.

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    ME 10-11 5 Amplifier

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    This document summarizes key concepts about microwave amplifiers from Chapter 5 of a microwave engineering textbook. It defines the roles of microwave amplifiers as generating power from a source and delivering maximum power to a network while dissipating power in a load. It provides equations for transducer power gain using S-matrix relations and conditions for stable matching circuits, including unconditional and conditional stability. The document concludes with an example of checking stability and using conjugate matching and the Smith chart to design a matching circuit for maximum gain.

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    Microwave Engineering

    Chapter 5: Microwave amplifier

    Pham Quang Thai – pqthai.hcmut@gmail.com

    1
    Roles of microwave amplifiers
    Pavs Pin Pavn PL
    Power generate from source

    Maximum power delivered to the network

    Power dissipated in load

    Using S-matrix relation


    Transducer power gain

    S21 (1   S )(1   L )
    2 2 2
    S12S21L
    GT  in  S11 
    1   S in 1   L S22 1  L S22
    2 2

    S21 (1  S )(1  L ) S12S21S


    2 2 2

    GT  out  S22 
    1  S S11
    1  S S11 1  L out
    2 2
    Stable condition of matching circuit

    Unconditional stable
    Conditional stable
    Microwave design for maximum gain: impedance matching in stable region
    Example:
    Checking stability

    Conditionally unstable at this frequency


    Conjugate matching

    Maximum gain
    Use Smith chart for
    impedance matching
    circuit
    Review

    • Problem 12.2-3-4-9

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