Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications, 2/e (Hardcover)
內容描述
The first edition of “Microstrip
Filters for RF/Microwave Applications” was published in 2001. Over the years
the book has been well received and is used extensively in both academia and
industry by microwave researchers and engineers. From its inception as a
manuscript the book is almost 8 years old. While the fundamentals of filter
circuits have not changed, further innovations in filter realizations and
other applications have occurred with changes in the technology and use of new
fabrication processes, such as the recent advances in RF MEMS and
ferroelectric films for tunable filters; the use of liquid crystal polymer
(LCP) substrates for multilayer circuits, as well as the new filters for
dual-band, multi-band and ultra wideband (UWB) applications.
Although the microstrip filter remains
as the main transmission line medium for these new developments, there has
been a new trend of using combined planar transmission line structures such as
co-planar waveguide (CPW) and slotted ground structures for novel physical
implementations beyond the single layer in order to achieve filter
miniaturization and better performance.
Also, over the years, practitioners
have suggested topics that should be added for completeness, or deleted in
some cases, as they were not very useful in practice.
In view of the above, the authors are
proposing a revised version of the “Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave
Applications” text and a slightly changed book title of “Planar Filters for
RF/Microwave Applications” to reflect the aforementioned trends in the revised
book.