RF Passive Network Design and Synthesis for Mobile Communications - Volume 2

RF Passive Network Design and Synthesis for Mobile Communications, Volume 2, presents advanced network architectures that define today's compact, high-performance mobile systems, building on the analytic foundations established in Volume 1. This authoritative second volume explores the sophisticated design techniques necessary to achieve maximum efficiency and dynamic range within critical RF front ends. Author Peter V. Wright delivers a powerful, new approach required for modern mobile communications platforms, ensuring optimal system integrity and performance.Gain access to precise, closed-form methods for designing the next generation of essential passive components, including couplers, splitters, and combiners. Analysis moves beyond fundamental devices and into advanced network topologies such as the SILC lattice-balun splitter/combiner, branch-line, ladder, and three-port quadrature couplers. New high-performance Chireix and Doherty PA architectures, exploiting the new SILC architecture, are proposed and analyzed. Extensive comparisons and derivations reveal how subtle impedance choices and phase characteristics directly influence crucial system metrics like linearity and bandwidth. The material then transitions to the integration of these networks withsophisticated multiphase power amplifier architectures such as Doherty and Chireix. Master techniques to exploit novel combiners, T-based networks, and differential layouts for optimal performance extraction.Structured for fast, equation-based synthesis and verification using widely available tools, this hands-on toolkit serves as an essential resource for RF and microwave circuit designers, mobile and 5G front-end engineers, and advanced students seeking to master passive network synthesis. This volume provides over 700 new equations, hundreds of comprehensive figures, and detailed appendixes covering complex subjects including coupled-inductor modeling, multiport S- and Y- parameter transformations, and polynomial curve fitting. This expertise equips professionals to rapidly deploy high-efficiency architectures that meet the rigorous demands of the next-generation mobile standards.