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Acknowledgments

The author is thankful to Prof. Karu P. Esselle and Prof. Graham Town, School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, for supporting Adjunct Professorship at Macquarie University. The author is also thankful to Prof. Enakshi K. Sharma, Department of Electronic Science, South Campus, Delhi University, for continuous discussions on topics related to EM‐Theory, Wave propagation, etc. The author sincerely appreciates the help and guidance provided by Prof. Kai Chang, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University during the review process of the book. The author also appreciates the active interest taken by Mr. Brett Kurzman and his team of Wiley Publishing for the review and friendly administrative support.

The author is particularly grateful to Dr. I.J. Bahl, Editor‐in‐Chief, Int. J. of RF & Microwave Computer‐Aided Engineering, John Wiley, USA; Prof. Zhongxiang Shen, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and Prof. Ladislau Matekovits, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, for reading book chapters and providing valuable suggestions to improve the book.

The author has benefitted from the comments, suggestions, and corrections of many colleagues, teachers, and students. The author would like to thank the following people for their useful contributions toward corrections and useful discussions: Dr. Koteshwar Rao, Dr. Harsupreet Kaur, Dr. Kamlesh Patel, Mr. Amit Birwal, Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Dr. Paramjeet Singh, Dr. Y.K. Awasthi, and Mr. Prashant Chaudhary from the Department of Electronic Science, Delhi University; Dr. Raheel Hashmi, Dr. Sudipta Chakraborty, and Dr. Rajas Prakash Khokle of School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney; Dr. Nasimuddin of Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Prof. Asoke De, Dr. Priyanka Jain, Ms. Priyanka Garg of Department of Electrical Engineering, DTU, Delhi; Mr. Shailendra Singh of Product Development and Innovation Center, Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bengaluru, India; Dr. Rajesh Singh, Microwave Radiation Laboratory, University of Pisa, Italy; Dr. Archna Rajput, IIT Jammu, India; Dr. Ravi Kumar Arya, Dept. of ECE, NIT, Delhi. The author is especially thankful to his students, Mr. Shailendra Singh and Mr. Prashant Chaudhary for their continuous help in correction of all chapters.

The author expresses his unbounded love and regards to his parents – Late Sh. A.P. Verma and Late Tara Devi, Uncle Late Sh. Hira Prasad, to grandmother Late Radhika Devi, and Uncle and Life‐guide Sh. Girija Pd. Srivastava. The author also is grateful to his teacher Prof. M.K.P. Mishra for excellent teaching of Circuit Theory in unique style, and for providing support in many ways. The author is thankful to his family members for their encouragement and support. Finally, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation to my wife, Kamini. The smiling faces of my grandchildren, Naina, Tinu, and Nupur have always kept me going on with the tiring work of book writing.

Anand K. Verma

New Delhi, Sydney