Advanced design techniques and realizations of microwave and RF filters The fundamentals needed to design and realize microwave and RF filters. Microwave and RF filters play an important role in communication systems and owing to the proliferation of radar satellite and mobile wireless systems there is a need for design methods that can satisfy the ever increasing demand for accuracy reliability and shorter development times. Beginning with a brief review of scattering and chain matrices filter approximations and synthesis waveguides and transmission lines and fundamental electromagnetic equations the book then covers design techniques for microwave and Preface. PART I: MICROWAVE FILTER FUNDAMENTALS. Chapter I. Scattering Parameters and ABCD matrices. Chapter II. Approximations and Synthesis. Chapter III. Waveguides and Transmission Lines. Chapter IV. Categorization of Microwave Filters. PART II: MINIMUM PHASE FILTERS. Chapter V. Capacitive Gap Filters for Millimeter Waves. Chapter VI. Evanescent mode Waveguide Filters with Dielectric Inserts. Chapter VII. Interdigital Filters. Chapter VIII. Combline Filters Implemented in SSS. PART III: NON MINIMUM PHASE SYMMETRICAL RESPONSE FILTERS. Chapter IX. Generalized Interdigital Filters with Conditions on Amplitude and Phase. Chapter X. Temperature Stable Narrow Band monomode TE011 Linear Phase Filters. PART IV: NON MINIMUM PHASE ASYMMETRICAL RESPONSE FILTERS. Chapter XI. Asymmetrical Capacitive Gap Coupled Line (CGCL) Filters. Chapter XII. Asymmetrical Dual mode TE102 TE301 Thick Iris Rectangular Inline Waveguide Filters with Transmission Zeros. Chapter XIII. Asymmetrical Cylindrical Dual mode Waveguide Filters with Transmission Zeros. Chapter XIV. Asymmetrical Multimode Rectangular Building Block Filters Using Genetic Optimization. Appendices. Index