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This book contains a selection of papers presented at the First National Conference on Sensors held in Rome 15-17 February 2011. The conference highlighted state-of-the-art results from both theoretical and applied research in the field of sensors and related technologies. This book presents material in an interdisciplinary approach, covering many aspects of the disciplines related to sensors, including physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and applications. · Provides a selection of the best papers from the First Italian National Conference on Sensors; · Covers a broad range of topics relating to sensors and microsystems, including physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and applications; · Offers interdisciplinary coverage, aimed at defining a common ground for sensors beyond the specific differences among the different particular implementation of sensors.
Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical new resource presents the fundamentals of electromagnetics and antenna technology. This book covers the design, electromagnetic simulation, fabrication, and measurements for various types of antennas, including impedance matching techniques and beamforming for ultrawideband dipoles, monopoles, loops, vector sensors for direction finding, HF curtain arrays, 3D printed nonplanar patch antenna arrays, waveguides for portable radar, reflector antennas, and other antennas. It explores the essentials of phased array antennas and includes detailed derivations of important field equations, and a detailed formulation of the method of moments. T...
Achieve optimal microwave system performance by mastering the principles and methods underlying today's powerful computational tools and commercial software in electromagnetics. This authoritative resource offers you clear and complete explanation of this essential electromagnetics knowledge, providing you with the analytical background you need to understand such key approaches as MoM (method of moments), FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) and FEM (Finite Element Method), and Green's functions. This comprehensive book includes all math necessary to master the material. Moreover, it features numerous solved problems that help ensure your understanding of key concepts throughout the book.
Today, more and more practitioners, researchers, and students are utilizing the power and efficiency of grid computing for their increasingly complex electromagnetics applications. This cutting-edge book offers practical and comprehensive guidance in using this new, low-cost approach to supercomputing to solve huge numerical electromagnetics problems. The book describes how to perform critical data exploration via the Web in a simple manner, build a computational grid for an electromagnetics application, and use collaborative engineering to share remote resources online. Moreover, this invaluable reference explains how to use grid computing to explore new electromagnetics applications that can lead to innovative market and research opportunities. CD-ROM Included! Contains all the software needed to build a grid and sample code for several application areas.
Written from an engineering perspective, this unique resource describes the practical application of wavelets to the solution of electromagnetic field problems and in signal analysis with an even-handed treatment of the pros and cons. A key feature of this book is that the wavelet concepts have been described from the filter theory point of view that is familiar to researchers with an electrical engineering background. The book shows you how to design novel algorithms that enable you to solve electrically, large electromagnetic field problems using modest computational resources. It also provides you with new ideas in the design and development of unique waveforms for reliable target identification and practical radar signal analysis. The book includes more then 500 equations, and covers a wide range of topics, from numerical methods to signal processing aspects.
Analytical Modeling in Applied Electromagnets encompasses the most complete treatment on the subject published to date, focusing on the nature of models in radio engineering. This leading-edge resource brings you detailed coverage of the latest topics, including metamaterials, photonic bandgaps and artificial impedance surfaces, and applies these concepts to a wide range of applications. The book provides you with working examples that are mainly directed to antenna applications, but the modeling methods and results can be used for other practical devices as well.
Electromagnetism for Engineers, VOL. I: Electrostatics is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of electromagnetism, making it an indispensable source for a wide range of readers. This volume covers the essential concepts of electrostatics, including Coulomb's law, electric fields, Gauss's law, and vector mathematics, which forms a foundational tool throughout the book. What sets this book apart are the numerous illustrations and diagrams that visually elucidate complex topics, ensuring a clear and thorough understanding. To reinforce learning, the text includes problem and solution sets, giving readers an opportunity to apply the concepts they have acquired. This book is particularly valuable for college graduates and engineering students who are beginning their journey into the realm of electromagnetism. It is also an excellent reference for practicing engineers seeking to refresh their knowledge of the basic principles of electromagnetism. With a focus on both theory and practical application, this volume provides a strong foundation for readers at various stages of their engineering education and career.
Based on Bahl and Bhartia's popular 1980 classic, Microstrip Antennas, this all new book provides the detail antenna engineers and designers need to design any type of microstrip antenna. After addressing essential microchip antenna theory, the authors highlight current design and engineering practices, emphasizing the most pressing issues in this area, including broadbanding, circular polarization, and active microstrip antennas in particular. Special design challenges, ranging from dual polarization, high bandwidth, and surface wave mitigation, to choosing the proper substrate, and shaping an antenna to achieve desired results are all covered.
Due to the spectacular growth of electronic systems and the steady demand for new services with increased functionality, the development of more efficient measurement techniques has become of paramount importance. This practical resource details the cutting-edge Modulated Scatterer Technique, which offers a low-invasive and rapid method for testing and maesuring systems and equipment used in a wide range of electronic engineering applications. Extensively refrenced with 125 illustrations and 100 equations.
This completely revised and expanded edition of an Artech House classic Polarization in Electromagnetic Systems presents the principles of polarization as applied to electromagnetic systems. This edition emphasizes the concepts needed for functional aspects of systems calculations and device evaluation. Readers find up-to-date coverage of applications in wireless communications. The fundamentals of polarization are explained, including the principles of wave polarization along with their mathematical representations. This book explores polarized, partially polarized waves, and unpolarized waves. The second part of the book addresses applications of polarization to practical systems. Antenna ...