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Ceramic Capacitors for Microwave Circuits: What They Are and How to Choose Them

Ceramic capacitors are the workhorse passive in thin-film MIC and RF/microwave assemblies, used mainly for DC blocking (coupling)…

Spiral Chip Inductors: What They Are and How to Choose Them for Microwave Circuits

Spiral chip inductors are planar coils built as thin-film metallization on a ceramic substrate, used as surface-mount or bare-die…

Thin Film Microwave Circuits: What They Are and How They Are Built

Thin film microwave circuits are microwave integrated circuits (MICs) built by depositing and patterning thin conductive and resi…

LDMOS Transistors: What They Are and How They Fit into RF and Microwave Circuit Design

LDMOS (laterally diffused MOSFET) is a silicon power MOSFET structure in which the channel is formed by lateral diffusion of dopa…

RF Bipolar Transistors: What They Are and How to Select Them for Microwave Circuits

RF bipolar transistors are NPN or PNP junction devices optimized for signal amplification or power generation at radio and microw…