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The principal highlights in the early history of electromagnetic guided waves are reviewed first, in order to show when and why hollow pipes were proposed and built as guiding structures for microwaves. The paper then develops the transition from that elemental form to modern-day microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits, including the competition between strip line and microstrip line, by combining the underlying physical principles with historical developments and anecdotes. The paper concludes by proposing that the development of microwave integrated circuits be viewed in terms of three stages, corresponding simultaneously to time periods and to the types of solutions required to characterize the circuit performance.
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Oliner, A.A. (1997). Historical Perspectives on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits. In: Das, N.K., Bertoni, H.L. (eds) Directions for the Next Generation of MMIC Devices and Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1480-4_2
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