"Must reading" for every microwave and communications systems engineer, this first-of-its-kind book provides an excellent overview of coupled line fundamentals and explains their applications in designing microwave and millimeter-wave components used in today's personal communication, audio/visual, microwave, radar, satellite communications, and other systems.

This unique book provides you with a thorough understanding of stripline, microstrip, monolithic, and coplanar technologies. Emphasizing design, analysis, and modern fabrication techniques and practices, it provides invaluable knowledge and guidance in helping you develop compact and low-cost design solutions and components such as loose and tight couplers, filters, hybrids, transformers, and baluns.

Featuring more than 400 design equations, this comprehensive book serves as a consolidated resource of classic and cutting-edge information on coupled structures and will surely prove to be one of the most relied-upon resources for microwave circuit design engineers, researchers, and students.

This authoritative resource presents current practices for the design of RF and microwave filters. This one-stop reference provides readers with essential and practical information in order to design their own filter design software package, ultimately saving time and money. Essential building blocks for each type of filter are presented including network theory, transmission lines, and coupling mechanisms. This book presents a detailed discussion of the Low Pass Filter prototype, which is then extended to other configurations such as high pass, band pass, band stop, diplexers, and multiplexers. Microwave Network Theory and Transmission Line Coupling Mechanisms are presented along with a comprehensive discussion of the characteristics of commonly used transmission lines such as waveguides, Striplines, and Microstrip lines. Numerous design examples are presented to demonstrate an inclusive design methodology.