Microwave Filters for Communication Systems: Fundamentals, Design and Applications

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Authors had the benefit of working with a large number of very dedicated and talented colleagues at COM DEV over many years. We appreciate their contribution to our knowledge. Authors would like to pay a special tribute to the late Dr. Val O'Donovan, co-founder of COM DEV, whose leadership and encouragement created an environment that allowed us and others to make many contributions towards advancing the state-of-the-art in microwave technology.

We would like to thank many people for their help in the preparation of this book: Dietmar Schmitt of ESA and Ming Yu of COM DEV for providing an early review of the book and many useful suggestions, Alastair Malarky (formerly COM DEV) for providing a critique of Chapter 1, Santiago Cogollos (University of Valencia), Soren Peik (University of Applied Sciences Bremen), Michael Earle (Consultant) for providing feedback on selected chapters. We would also like to thank many graduate students in the E & CE department at the University of Waterloo for providing feedback and help in the preparation of the book. In particular, we wish to thank Michel Elnagger, Vahid Miraftab, Hamid Salehi, Joe Salfi, George Shaker, and Winter Yan. Our thanks also go to the administrative staff that took care of numerous tasks associated with the book; specifically, Louise Green and Bill Jolley at the University of Waterloo, Emma Shanks at COM DEV, and Rosaline Wong at AMI.

Authors have been fortunate in interfacing with so many engineers on a large ...