Description
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.
Table Of Contents
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.