Advanced Design Techniques and Realizations of Microwave and RF Filters

Preface.

Part I: Microwave Filter Fundamentals.

1. Scattering Parameters and ABCD Matrices.

2. Approximations and Synthesis.

3. Waveguides and Transmission Lines.

4. Categorization of Microwave Filters.

Part II: Minimum-Phase Filters.

5. Capacitive-Gap Filters for Millimeter Waves.

6. Evanescent-Mode Waveguide Filters with Dielectric Inserts.

7. Interdigital Filters.

8. Combline Filters Implemented In SSS.

Part III: Non-Minimum-Phase Symmetrical Response Filters.

9. Generalized Interdigital Filters with Conditions on Amplitude and Phase.

10. Temperature-Stable Narrowband Monomode TE₀₁₁ Linear-Phase Filters.

Part IV: Non-Minimum-Phase Asymmetrical Response Filters.

11. Asymmetrical Capacitive-Gap Coupled Line Filters.

12. Asymmetrical Dual-Mode TE₁₀₂ / TE₃₀₁ Thick Iris Rectangular In-Line Waveguide Filters with Transmission Zeros.

13. Asymmetrical Cylindrical Dual-Mode Waveguide Filters with Transmission Zeros.

14. Asymmetrical Multimode Rectangular Building Block Filters Using Genetic Optimization.

Appendix 1: Lossless Systems.

Appendix 2: Redundant Elements.

Appendix 3: Modal Analysis of Waveguide Step Discontinuities.

Appendix 4: Trisections with Unity Inverters on the Inside or on the Outside.

Appendix 5: Reference Fields and Scattering Matrices for Multimodal Rectangular Waveguide Filters.

Index.