Accurate and efficient computational methods to evaluate the
quasi-TEM parameters of various planar structures such as microstrips,
coplanar lines and coplanar waveguides are developed. The characteristic
parameters of all these structures which are used extensively
in microwave integrated circuits for applications as transmission
lines and other circuit elements are computed...
The properties of linear active coupled lines consisting of
electrically long GaAs MESFET structures are investigated for possible
applications as traveling-wave broad-band amplifiers. In addition,
the nonlinear coupled Schottky lines are studied for applications as
voltage tunable circuit elements.
The analysis of the general active asymmetric coupled transmission
lines in...
An analog signal processing technique allowing arbitrary step
response is presented. A transversal structure is used with
nonuniform contradirectional coupling to provide continuous tapping.
Sinusoidal and chirp responses are presented as examples implemented
using this nonuniformly coupled microstrip structure.
The purpose of the thesis is to synthesize the major results of a continuous
research effort directed toward new applications of high speed sampling in general and Electrooptic Sampling in particular.
Equivalent time sampling of repetitive high speed signals continues to provide significant performance enhancements for present and future generations...
Static and dynamic numerical techniques which are suited for the
analysis and simulation of various planar microstrip components
encountered in hybrid and monolithic microwave integrated circuits are
presented. The static analysis makes use of an excess source formulation in conjunction with an efficient mathematical treatment to
extract the discontinuity parameter...
The general expressions for finding the network functions, e.g.,
the immittance and the scattering parameters, of a general, uniformly
coupled n-line structure in an inhomogeneous medium are derived in
terms of the normal mode parameters of the system. These are used to
compute or to derive the explicit expressions for...