Software VNA and Microwave Network Design and Characterisation

Foreword
 
Preface
 
Chapter 1. Introduction to Network Analysis of Microwave Circuits
 
1.1 One-Port Network
 
1.2 Two-Port Network
 
1.3 Conversions between Z, Y and ABCD and S-parameters
 
1.4 Single Impedance Two-port Network
 
1.5 S-parameters of Common One- and Two-Port Networks
 
1.6 Connected Two-Port Networks
 
1.7 Scattering Matrix of Microwave Circuits Composed of Multi-port Devices
 
Chapter 2. Introduction to Software VNA
 
2.1 How to Install
 
2.2 The Software VNA
 
2.3 STIMULUS Functions
 
2.4 PARAMETER Functions
 
2.5 FORMAT Functions
 
2.6 RESPONSE Functions
 
2.7 MENU Block
 
2.8 Summary of Unlabelled-key Functions
 
2.9 Preset
 
2.10 Device Under Test (DUT)
 
2.11 Circuit Simulator
 
2.12 Circuit Simulation Procedures and Example Chapter 3. Device Builders and Models
 
3.1 Lossless Transmission Line
 
3.2 One- and Two-Port Standards
 
3.3 Discrete RLC Components: One-Port Impedance Load
 
3.4 Discrete RLC Components: Two-Port Series Impedance
 
3.5 Discrete RLC Components: Two-Port Shunt Admittance
 
3.6 General Transmission Line
 
3.7 Transmission Line Components: Two-Port Serial Transmission Line Stub
 
3.8 Transmission Line Components: Two-Port Parallel Transmission Line Stub
 
3.9 Ideal Two-Port Components: Attenuator/Gain Block
 
3.10 Ideal Two-Port Components: 1:N and N:1 Transformer
 
3.11 Ideal Two-Port Components: Isolator
 
3.12 Ideal Two-Port Components: Gyrator
 
3.13 Ideal Two-Port Components: Circulator
 
3.14 Physical Transmission Lines: Coaxial Line
 
3.15 Physical Transmission Lines: Microstrip Line
 
3.16 Physical Transmission Lines: Stripline
 
3.17 Physical Transmission Lines: Coplanar Waveguide
 
3.18 Physical Transmission Lines: Coplanar

Zhipeng Wu is currently a Professor in the Microwave and Communications Group in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. His research interests are in the field of antennas and propagation for wireless and mobile communications, tomographic systems and sensors, and microwave engineering, and he has taught many courses on these topics including Masters courses in microwave measurements and communication systems, and senior undergraduate courses in microwave components and systems and communication principles. He has been at the university since 1998, and was elevated, in 2005 to become a Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the IEE. He has been invited to be a program committee member of a number of international conferences, and will the Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the International Workshop on Antenna Technology in 2007. He has co-authored the book Radiowave Propagation Over Ground (Kluwer, 1993) and the accompanying software to this book, and also the vector network analyser (VNA) software for the proposed book. Along with this, he has written a chapter in the Wiley Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering (Wiley, 2005), and the book Dielectric Resonator Antennas (Research Studies Press, 2003), and authored over 120 conference and journal publications.