We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by Dr.- Ing. Petr Lorenz to use the open source emGine Environment software for the simulation of microwave planar devices.
We gratefully acknowledge the permission given by Prof. Thomas S. Laverghetta to use the content of his book,"Microwave and Wireless Simplified".
We profoundly thank Prof. Inder Bahl for allowing to use the content of his book,"Microwave Solid State Circuit Design".
We also acknowledge the support given by Prof. Jia-Sheng Hong and Prof. Yi Huang to use the content of their respective books.
