Tatsuo Itoh & George Haddad 
RF Technologies for Low Power Wireless Communications 

A survey of microwave technology tailored for professionals in
wireless communications

RF Technologies for Low Power Wireless
Communications updates recent developments in wireless
communications from a hardware design standpoint and offers
specialized coverage of microwave technology with a focus on the
low power wireless units required in modern wireless systems. It
explores results of recent research that focused on a holistic,
integrated approach to the topics of materials, devices, circuits,
modulation, and architectures rather than the more traditional
approach of research into isolated topical areas.

Twelve chapters deal with various fundamental research aspects
of low power wireless electronics written by world-class experts in
each field. The first chapter offers an overview of wireless
architecture and performance, followed by detailed coverage of:

* Advanced Ga As-based HBT designs

* In P-based devices and circuits

* Si/Si Ge HBT technology

* Noise in Ga N devices

* Power amplifier architectures and nonlinearities

* Planar-oriented components

* MEMS and micromachined components

* Resonators, filters, and low-noise oscillators

* Antennas

* Transceiver front-end architectures

With a clear focus and expert contributors, RF
Technologies for Low Power Wireless Communications will be
of interest to a wide range of electrical engineering disciplines
working in wireless technologies.

Table of Content

Introduction (James F Harvey, Robert J. Trew, and Dwight L
Woolard).

1. Wireless Communications System Architecture and Performance
(Wayne Stark and Larry Milstein).

2. Advanced Ga As-Based HBT Designs for Wireless Communications
Systems (M. Frank Chang and Peter M. Asbeck).

3. In P-Based Devices and Circuits (Dimitris Pavlidis, Donald
Sawdai, and George I. Haddad).

4. Si/Si Ge HBT Technology for Low-Power Mobile Communications
System Applications (Lany Larson and M. Frank Chang).

5. Flicker Noise Reduction in Ga N Field-Effect Transistors (Kang
L. Wang and Alexander Balandin).

6. Power Amplifier Approaches for High Efficiency and Linearity
(Peter M. Asbeck, Zoya Popovic, Tatsuo Itoh, and Lany Larson).

7. Characterization of Amplifier Nonlinearities and Their
Effects in Communications Systems (Jack East, Wayne Stark, and
George I. Haddad).

8. Planar-Oriented Passive Components (Yongxi Qian and Tatsuo
Itoh).

9. Active and High-Performance Antennas (William R. Deal, Vesna
Radisic, Yongxi Qian, and Tatsuo Itoh).

10. Microelectromechanical Switches for RF Applications (Sergio
P. Pacheco and Linda P. B. Katehi).

11. Micromachined K-Band High-Q Resonators, Filters, and Low
Phase Noise Oscillators (Andrew R. Brown and Gabriel M.
Rebeiz, ).

12. Transceiver Front-End Architectures Using Vibrating
Micromechanical Signal Processors (Clark T.-C. Nguyen).

Index.

About the author

TATSUO ITOH, Ph D, is Professor in the Electrical Engineering
Department at UCLA. He has published several hundred book chapters
and journal articles and is also editor of Numerical Techniques for
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Passive Structures and Finite Element
Software for Microwave Engineering (both from Wiley).

GEORGE HADDAD, Ph D, is Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He has authored
numerous publications in the areas of solid-state microwave devices
and circuits.

JAMES HARVEY is a Research Program Manager at the Electronics
Division, Army Research Office, with primary responsibility for the
fields of electromagnetics, antennas and antenna structures,
innovative microwave and millimeter-wave circuit integration,
low-power/minimum-power system design, and landmine detection.