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This chapter presents design and analysis of diode- and transistor-based microwave attenuator circuits including their applications, performance variation and compensation with operating temperature. Complete design details of series-, shunt-, π-, TEE- and hybrid-configured attenuators with their merits and demerits are given. Detailed design and analysis of driver circuits based on equiresistance curves of p-i-n diodes for achieving temperature-insensitive attenuation of the attenuator circuits is also presented.
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Bera, S.C. (2019). Microwave Attenuators. In: Microwave Active Devices and Circuits for Communication. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 533. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3004-9_9
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