The following is excerpted from Chapter 8 from “RF Circuit Design, 2e” by Christopher Bowick. The fundamental operation of an RF front end is fairly straightforward: it detects and processes radio ...

There are many ways to build a radio receiver, but most have a few things in common, such as oscillators, tuned circuits, detectors, mixers, and amplifiers. Put those together in the right order and ...

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) represent a critical class of photodetectors capable of registering individual photons, thereby enabling breakthroughs in quantum information science, lidar, ...