Since the new century, especially so for the past five years, the particular striking matter in the world is that the pattern of the global economy as a whole is changing. The developed countries are suffering a financial crisis and economic depression, the BRICS countries are rising and having fast economic booming, especially China is experiencing a rapid economic rise, which all marks a new global economic growth pattern formation. The paper re-analyzed the basis of two round migrations of the worlds centers of economic growth in modern economic history, and points out the third round of...

This book provides a practical introduction of integrated passive device (IPD) technology for both undergraduate and graduate students of electronic engineering, electrical engineering, practicing engineers, communication engineering, and other interested students and researchers. There is no need to justify the existence of IPDs; they are the essential building blocks of mobile and wireless communication systems. IPDs play an important role in the front-end RF sections of mobile phones, and have been developed to meet the ever increasing needs of size and cost reduction in microwave...