RF Engineering
RF Basics
Frequency and Wavelength relationship - <math> \lambda f = c </math>
Power Density - <math> S(W/m^2) = \frac{P}{4 \pi r^2} </math>
Line of sight distance to horizon - <math> d \approx \sqrt{ 2 r h} </math>
<math> d(mi) \approx \sqrt{2 h(ft)} </math>
Waveguide
Seminal book is the Waveguide Handbook by Marcuvitz
Paper discussing theory of bent waveguides - [1]
Waveguide Characteristics - File:Waveguide Characteristics.xlsx
System Design
W/V-Band RF Propagation Experiment Design - [2]
Measurements of Ocean Surface Scattering Using an Airborne 94-GHz Cloud Radar: Implication for Calibration of Airborne and Spaceborne W-band Radars - [3]
Mixers
Tutorial on the Double Balanced Mixer - [4]
Couplers and Hybrids
RF Directional Couplers and 3dB Hybrids File:RF Directional Couplers and 3dB Hybrids.pdf
Advanced Concepts
Spatio-temporal wavefront shaping in a microwave cavity - [5]
ADC and Down-conversion
Introduction to ADC (A/D) capture and digital down-conversion File:RF applications in digital signal processing.pdf
Sampled Data Systems File:MixedSignal Sect2.pdf
ADC Noise Floor Calculations - File:10.1.1.558.6327.pdf
Application Note on FMCW (LFM) complex-baseband architectures - File:Spyy007.pdf
DDS
Removal of DDS Spurs - [6]