What is Reddit's opinion of Microwave Transistor Amplifiers: Analysis and Design?

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1. First, understand a basic thevenin source delivering power to a load resistor. You can do the derivation yourself to see that max power is delivered (assuming no power supply limitations) when the load resistor is equal to the source resistance.
2. Power delivery requires voltage and current to be in phase. For the same voltage and current the less they are in phase the less power you will deliver. For a load with a non-real impedance you will need to cancel out that reactance in order to deliver the most amount of power.

Conceptually that's really all there is to matching for optimal power delivery. That said, optimal power delivery isn't usually the goal, and for a real RF power amplifier matching in this way won't actually get you the most power because you have a current limited source, so instead of conjugate matching you need to do a load line match. Matching often has many conflicting design goals, such as stability, gain flatness, etc.

My recommendation is to start with Gonzalez and work your way up from there. By far the best exposition of microwave circuit matching that I've ever come across.

https://www.amazon.com/Microwave-Transistor-Amplifiers-Analysis-Design/dp/0132543354