RF Passive Network Design and Synthesis for Mobile Communications - Volume 2

“Dr Peter Wright graduated with an engineering degree from Cambridge University, UK, and began working as a microwave engineer for Marconi Communications, Chelmsford, UK. Following that, he moved to the U.S. to assume an engineering position with Microwave Associates, Burlington, MA. After a few years, anxious to advance his theoretical understanding of RF component design and theory, he left to enter the PhD program in Electrical Sciences Department at MIT. His thesis work was in the area microwave, acoustics, and optical component design and modelling. Working under Professor Haus, he pioneered the application of coupling-of-modes theory (COM) to the design of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. On graduating from MIT, he became a staff member at Lincoln Laboratories, Bedford, MA. There he worked on superconducting signal processing circuits, and acousto-optic spectrum analyzers. Seeing an opportunity to apply his COM theory to the design of practical SAW devices, he left to join RF Monolithics in Dallas, TX. During his time at RF Monolithics, Dr. Wright wrote most of the software for designing the company’s wide range of SAW resonators and filters. As an outcome of this work, he received multiple patents for numerous innovative architectures.”