3.1 Introduction to Transmission Lines 3.2 Types of Transmission Lines 3.3 Transmission Lines as Two-Port Devices 3.4 Lumped-Element Model 3.5 Telegrapher's Equations 3.6 Wave Equation for a TEM Transmission Line 3.7 Characteristic Impedance 3.8 Wave Propagation on a TEM Transmission Line 3.9 Lossless and Low-Loss Transmission Lines 3.10 Coaxial Line 3.11 Microstrip Line 3.12 Voltage Reflection Coefficient 3.13 Standing Waves 3.14 Standing Wave Ratio 3.15 Input Impedance of a Terminated Lossless Transmission Line 3.16 Input Impedance for Open- and Short-Circuit Terminations 3.17 Applications of Open- and Short-Circuited Transmission Line Stubs 3.18 Measurement of Transmission Line Characteristics 3.19 Quarter-Wavelength Transmission Line 3.20 Power Flow on Transmission Lines 3.21 Impedance Matching: General Considerations 3.22 Single-Reactance Matching 3.23 Single-Stub Matching Download this chapter as PDF