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Microwave Magazine and MTT Society Officers
Editor
Alfy Riddle, Kumu Networks
microwave.editor@ieee.org
Assistant Editor
Sharri Shaw, NIST, microedt@nist.gov
Associate Editors
Robert H. Caverly, Villanova University,
robert.caverly@villanova.edu
Nuño Borges Carvalho, University of Aveiro,
Portugal, nbcarvalho@ua.pt
Ana Collado, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain,
ana.collado@cttc.cat
Simone Bastioli, RS Microwave, New Jersey,
sbastioli@rsmicro.com
Ali Darwish, American University in Cairo,
Egypt, ali@darwish.org
Luca Roselli, University of Perugia, Italy,
urlofi@tin.it; luca.roselli@unipg.it
Anding Zhu, University College, Dublin,
Ireland, anding.zhu@ucd.ie
Christian Fager, University of Chalmers,
Sweden, christian.fager@chalmers.se
Gary Breed, AYTechnologies,
gary@aytechnologies.com
Almudena Suarez, University of Cantabria,
Spain, almudena.suarez@unican.es
Columns and Departments
MicroBusiness
Fred Schindler, RF Micro Devices,
m.schindler@ieee.org
Health Matters
James C. Lin, University of Illinois-Chicago,
lin@uic.edu
Microwave Surfing
Rajeev Bansal, University of Connecticut,
rajeev@engr.uconn.edu
Book Reviews
James Chu, Southern Polytechnic State
University, Georgia, jchu@spsu.edu
Education Corner
Ramesh Gupta, Lightsquared, Washington,
D.C., ramesh.gupta@ieee.org
Membership News
Bela Szendrenyi, Advantest,
bela.szendrenyi@advantest.com
New Products
Ken Mays, Sonnet Software,
microwave.newproducts@ieee.org
In Memoriam Contributions
John T. Barr IV, j.barr@ieee.org
Ombuds Officer
Ed Niehenke, Niehenke Consulting,
e.niehenke@ieee.org

Volume 16 * Number 5 * June 2015 * ISSN 1527-3342

features

28

Unmatched Accuracy
How Mismatches Can Improve the Accuracy
of Swept Frequency Measurements
Christian G. Diskus

34

Tunable SIW Structures
Antennas, VCOs, and Filters
Kamran Entesari, Alireza Pourghorban Saghati,
Vikram Sekar, and Marcelino Armendariz

55

The Proper Balance
Overview of Microstrip Wideband Balanced Circuits
with Wideband Common Mode Suppression
Wenjie Feng, Wenquan Che, and Quan Xue

69

Check the Stability
Stability Analysis Methods for Microwave Circuits
Almudena Suárez

91

2015 Fellows Elevation
and Recognition
Alfy Riddle

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