Table of Contents

General Applications of Filter Structures in Microwave Engineering. Useful Circuit Concepts and Equations. Principles of the Image Method for Filter Design. Low-Pass Prototype Filters Obtained by Network Synthesis Methods. Properties of Common Microwave Filter Elements. Stepped-Impedance Transformers and Filter Prototypes. Low-Pass and High-Pass Filters Using Semi-Lumped Elements or Waveguide Corrugations. Band-Pass Filters. Special Procedures for the Practical Development of Coupled-Resonator Band-Pass Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks and Time-Delay Networks. Band-Stop Filters. Ten-Mode, Coupled-Transmission-Line Directional Couplers, and Branch-Line Directional Couplers. Directional, Channel-Separation Filters and Traveling Wave Ring-Resonators. High-Power Filters. Multiplexer Design. Mechanically and Magnetically Tunable Microwave Filters.