"This book presents and discusses alternatives to ordinary transmission lines for the design and implementation of advanced RF/microwave components in planar technology"--

Mart̕n introduces alternatives to ordinary transmission lines for the design and implementation of radio-frequency and microwaves device components with increased degrees of freedom, more possibilities for reducing device size, improved performance, or the ability to achieve novel functions. Writing for readers who are already familiar with radio-frequency and microwave engineering, he covers fundamentals of planar transmission lines; artificial transmission lines based on periodic structures; metamaterial transmission lines: fundamentals, theory, circuit models, and main implementations; radio-frequency and microwave applications of metamaterial transmission lines; reconfigurable, tunable, and nonlinear artificial transmission lines; and other advanced transmission lines. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)