Hil-Yee Chan, Walter. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-87). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- introduction --- p.3 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Background Theory --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Maximally Flat Filter Response --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Equal-Ripple Filter Response --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Low-pass to Band-pass Transformation --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4 --- Impedance and Admittance Inverter --- p.10 / Chapter 2.5 --- Coupled-Resonator Filter --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Active Filter Employing Negative Resistance --- p.18 / Chapter 3.1 --- Lossy Coupled-Resonator Filter --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2 --- Common-source Capacitive Feedback Configuration --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Active LC-resonator --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- Design Criteria of the Active Filter --- p.24 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Intermodulation Analysis --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1 --- IM Distortion of the Negative Resistance Circuit --- p.27 / Chapter 4.2 --- Analysis of the Active Coupled-Resonator Filter --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3 --- IM Distortion Power of a Nth Order Active Filter --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Noise Analysis --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1 --- Noise Basics and Noise Figure --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2 --- Noisy Two-Ports --- p.41 / Chapter 5.3 --- Correlation Matrix Representation of Noisy Two-Ports --- p.44 / Chapter 5.4 --- Change of Representation --- p.46 / Chapter 5.5 --- Interconnection of Noisy Two-Ports --- p.47 / Chapter 5.6 --- Correlation Matrix of the Basic Two-Ports --- p.48 / Chapter 5.7 --- Extraction of the Noise Parameters of MESFET --- p.51 / Chapter 5.8 --- Noise Parameters of CFY30 --- p.53 / Chapter 5.9 --- Noise Figure of CFY30 --- p.56 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Noise Analysis of Passive and Active Filter --- p.60 / Chapter 6.1 --- Noise Current Generated by the Negative Resistance Circuit --- p.60 / Chapter 6.2 --- Noise Figure of the Passive Filter --- p.63 / Chapter 6.3 --- Noise Figure of the Active Filter --- p.65 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Noise Figure of a Second-order Active Filter --- p.65 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Noise Figure of the Higher-order Active Filter --- p.68 / Chapter 6.4 --- Design consideration of Active Filter with Optimized Noise and Linearity Performance --- p.71 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Design of 900MHz Hybrid Active Filter --- p.73 / Chapter 7.1 --- Schematic of Active Filter --- p.73 / Chapter 7.2 --- Design Variants --- p.75 / Chapter 7.3 --- Measurement Results --- p.75 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- Passive Filter --- p.75 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Active Filter --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.83 / Reference --- p.84 / Author's Publications --- p.88