Meet the editor

Pedro Pinho was born in Vale de Cambra, Portugal in 1974. He received his "Licenciado" (five years degree), and Master's degree in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, and his PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Aveiro in 1997, 2000, and 2004 respectively. He is currently a Professor Adjunto at the Department of Electrical Telecommunications and Computers Engineering in Instituto Superior de

Engenharia de Lisboa (since 2005) and a Senior Member of the research staff at the Institute of Telecommunications, Aveiro, Portugal (since 1997). He has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in journals and international conferences and 12 book chapters. Moreover, Pedro Pinho co-authored the book "Guided propagation of electromagnetic waves", published in 2015. He has edited 3 books. He participated as principal researcher in several projects with scientific and/or industry focus, both at a national and international level and was an effective member of two Cost Actions (IC 1301, TD 1301). To date he has assisted 7 PhD students and 42 MSc students. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Contents

Antennas

Manara

David Girbau

Chee Yen Leow

and Mingui Sun

Devices

Technique

Transfer Applications

Preface III

Chapter 1 1

Chapter 2 23

Chapter 3 49

Chapter 4 69

Chapter 5 93

Chapter 6 103

Chapter 7 121

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