For transverse electric waves between parallel plates, the lowest value of m, without making all the field components zero, is equal to
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Which of the following devices can be used as low power oscillator only?
A. Tunnel diode
B. Gunn diode
C. LSA diode
D. IMPATT diode
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For which of the following reasons, the coupling between the tunnel diode and its cavity is kept loose?
A. To provide large voltage swing
B. To increase the frequency stability
C. To allow operation at high frequencies
D. To increase the available negative resistance
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Which statement is false about micro-strip line over strip-line?
A. Less ratiative
B. Easier for component integration
C. One sided ground plane
D. More interaction with neighboring circuit element
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A balun transformer gives an impedance transformation of
A. 4 : 1
B. 2 : 1
C. 1 : 4
D. 1 : 2
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At microwave frequencies, we prefer waveguides to transmission lines for transporting EM energy because of all the following except that
A. Losses in transmission lines are prohibitively large
B. Waveguides have larger bandwidths and lower signal attenuation
C. Transmission lines are larger than waveguides
D. Transmission lines support only TEM mode
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In a travelling wave tube, the phase velocity of the axial components of the field of the slow wave structure is kept
A. Slightly less than the velocity of electrons
B. Equal to the velocity of the electrons
C. Slightly more than the velocity of electrons
D. Equal to the velocity of light in free space
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Which of the following parameters is used in RF design?
A. H-parameters
B. S-parameters
C. Z-parameters
D. Y-parameters
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For a cavity resonator with, Q0 = unloaded Q and ρ = standing wave ratio, Qe = the loaded Q is given by
A. Q e = ρ Q 0
B. Q e = ρ ρ + 1 Q 0
C. Q e = ρ + 1 ρ Q 0
D. Q e = ρ 1 Q 0
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A two terminal negative resistance device that can be employed in an amplifier oscillator (or) switch.
A. Esaki diode
B. Tunnel diode
C. Varactor diode
D. Both A and B
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High frequency transistors are designed especially for:
A. LF applications (100 kHz and above)
B. RF applications (100 kHz and above)
C. DF applications (below 100 kHz)
D. AF applications (below 100 kHz)
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A distortion analyzer uses twin-T filter to
A. Suppress the fundamental frequency
B. Pass only fundamental frequency
C. filters mains frequency noise
D. filter the RF noise
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The maximum usable frequency of an ionospheric layer at 60° incidence and with 8 MHz critical frequency is
A. 16 MHz
B. C. 8 MHz
D. About 6.93 MHz
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The cut-off frequency of the dominant mode of a rectangular waveguide having aspect ratio more than 2 is 10 GHz. The inner broad wall dimension is given by
A. 3 cm
B. 2 cm
C. 1.5 cm
D. 2.5 cm
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For which of the following reasons the TWT is sometimes preferred to the multi-cavity klystron amplifier?
A. It produces a higher output power
B. It has a greater bandwidth
C. It is more efficient
D. It has higher number of modes
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A rectangular waveguide having TE10 mode as dominant mode is having a cutoff frequency of 18-GHz of the TE30 mode. The inner broad-wall dimension of the rectangular waveguide is
A. 3 5 cms
B. 5 cms
C. 2 5 cms
D. 10 cms
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The dominant mode in a rectangular waveguide is TE10 , because this mode has
A. no attenuation
B. no cut-off
C. no magnetic field component
D. the highest cut-off wavelength
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A cylindrical cavity operating in TE111 mode has a 3 dB bandwidth of 2.4 MHz and its quality factor is 4000. Its resonant frequency would be
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Which of the following statements is not true of waves in general
A. It may be a function of time only
B. It may be sinusoidal or co sinusoidal
C. It must be a function of time and space
D. For practical reasons, it must be finite in extent
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An H-plane tee is also known as
A. Shunt tee
B. Series tee
C. Magic tee
D. Hybrid tee
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