is it possible to fabricate microwave amplifier in stripline

I would like to know whether it is possible to fabricate microwave amplifier in a stripline structure.I appreciate your comments.

Back in the day people made all sorts of stripline components. Nowadays, people try hard to avoid stripline because it crushes any surface mount components, like resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors. It can be done, you have to punch out square holes in the cover piece of stripline to provide clearance for the components. A pain in the neck.

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Oh, and another thing: gound connections. If you have a transistor and want to ground the emitter, for example, you have to make contact to both the bottom AND top covers in order to maintain symmetrical currents!

Really I have an idea for using SMD components in Stripline structure without punching out the upper cover.for example for mounting transistor we can use via holes to transfer the mounting pads of transistor pins to the back of the upper cover board and then montage the transistor on that.
I am wondering what you think about this method.