Mixing Microwaves [review of "Microwave Mixer Technology and Applications (Henderson, B. and Camargo, E.; 2013) [Book\/Software Reviews]

This book he presents theory and practice for diode, bipolar junction transistor (BJT), and field effect transistor (FET)mixers. As comprehensive as this book is, the treatment of CMOS mixers is light, and the reader will need to survey IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and other publications for all the trends in CMOS mixers. There are, however, many aspects of this book that will make this a classic work. First, the authors take the history of mixers back to the early 1900s and trace mixer development to the present day. Second, the authors devote a chapter to semiconductor models and extraction, which sets the basis for diode, FET, and BJT mixer understanding. These models use a foundation of conversion matrices as presented in [1], analytic Bessel function analysis as developed in Clarke and Hess [3] as well as Volterra series analysis as developed in Maasdeveloped in books on nonlinear analysis.