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Microwave Electronic Devices

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The development of microwave electronics has always been driven by the demands of short wavelength radio (and later radar) systems. The history of microwaves started already with the first experiments of Heinrich Hertz around 1887. Hertz used a spark transmitter that produced signals in a very large frequency band and he selected from these a band around 420 MHz with an antenna that measured half a wavelength at this frequency. The receiving antenna had the same dimensions. Hertz also used parabolic mirrors and lenses of dielectric material. In 1893 Lord Kelvin gave a theoretical analysis of hollow waveguides and shortly afterwards Oliver Lodge demonstrated waveguides at frequencies of 1.5–4 GHz.

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van de Roer, T.G. (1994). History. In: Microwave Electronic Devices. Microwave Technology Series, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2500-4_1

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