Microwave / RF Applicators and Probes for Material Heating, Sensing, and Plasma Generation

Interactions of electromagnetic fields with materials for high frequencies in the industry, science, medicine, and consumer markets. Applicators or probes, which are the front end of these systems, provide the field that interacts with the material. This book takes an integrated approach to the topic of interactions, providing a toolkit for those who design these devices. Particular attention is given to the real world.

Mathematical methods are provided as design tools, and are often simplified by the curve-fitting techniques that are particularly usable by handheld calculators. Useful equations and numerically solved examples, using situations encountered in practice, are supplied. Above all, it is a source of high definition and sense of application. Electronic and electrical R & D engineers, physicists, university professors and valuable inventors.

Mehrdad Mehdizadeh is with the DuPont Company, Engineering Research & Technology Division in Wilmington, Delaware. His areas of expertise include high frequency hardware and electromagnetic methods of processing, sensing, and characterization of materials. His work and innovation in industrial, scientific, and medical applications has been published in 19 US patents and a number of publications. He earned his Ph.D. and MS from Marquette University (1983, 1980), and a BS from Sharif University of Technology (1977), all in electrical engineering. Dr. Mehdizadeh is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society), the International Microwave Power Institute (IMPI), and a voting member of the IEEE Standard Association.

. Books in this area are usually theoretical; this book provides a system for design
. Features: - real world and numerically solved examples, and fitted-threaded simple equations
. Author is a voting member of the IEEE Standards Association

Introduction; Fundamentals of Field Reactions with Materials; Applicators for Non-Contact Interactions of Fields and Materials; Components of RF / Microwave Heating / Sensing: Matching Structures; Power Sources: Tube Versus Solid State; Radio Frequency Dielectric Heating Systems; Microwave Heating Systems; Induction Heating Systems; Newest Applications and Advanced Systems; Economics, Safety and Environmental