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241. |  Periodic Structures: Mode-Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagnetic Engineering Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 11-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Periodic Structures: Mode-Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagnetic Engineering
Provides readers an understanding of the basic physics underlying meta-materials, providing a powerful tool for analyzing their electromagnetic properties
Periodic Structures: Mode-Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagnetic Engineering presents the scattering and guiding characteristics of periodic structures using the mode-matching approach and their applications in electromagnetic engineering. The book is structured so that the first three chapters provide an introduction and prepare the reader for chapters 4 to 6, which expand the formulations to electromagnetic and optical...
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242. |  Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging With MATLAB Algorithms By: Caner Ozdemir Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 13-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging With MATLAB Algorithms
This book provides a full representation of Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imagery, which is a popular and important radar signal processing tool. The book covers all possible aspects of ISAR imaging. The book offers a fair amount of signal processing techniques and radar basics before introducing the inverse problem of ISAR and the forward problem of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Important concepts of SAR such as resolution, pulse compression and image formation are given together with associated MATLAB codes.
After providing the fundamentals for ISAR imaging, the book gives...
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243. |  OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications
This book covers all of the aspects necessary to the design and manufacturing of OLED displays. Topics include emission mechanism, material selection, device processing, manufacturing issues and countermeasures and display design basics. In addition, the book defines elements of OLED such as Thin Film Transistor (TFT) backplane design and processing details, including Low Temperature Poly Silicon (LTPS) process and circuit integration, and high yield method to manufacturer. Researchers and developers are aiming at making large OLED televisions and companies such as Samsung and Apple are...
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244. |  Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners By: Clayton R. Paul Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 22-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners
This is a brief but comprehensive book covering the set of EMC skills that EMC practitioners today require in order to be successful in high-speed, digital electronics. The basic skills in the book are new and weren't studied in most curricula some ten years ago. The rapidly changing digital technology has created this demand for a discussion of new analysis skills particularly for the analysis of transmission lines where the conductors that interconnect the electronic modules have become "electrically large," longer than a tenth of a wavelength, which are increasingly becoming important....
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245. |  Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies By: K. Daniel Wong Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies
A broad introduction to the fundamentals of wireless communication engineering technologies
Covering both theory and practical topics, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies offers a sound survey of the major industry-relevant aspects of wireless communication engineering technologies. Divided into four main sections, the book examines RF, antennas, and propagation; wireless access technologies; network and service architectures; and other topics, such as network management and security, policies and regulations, and facilities infrastructure. Helpful...
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246. |  Synthetic Aperture Radar Polarimetry By: Jakob J. van Zyl; Yunjin Kim Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Synthetic Aperture Radar Polarimetry
This book describes the application of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar to earth remote sensing based on research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This book synthesizes all current research to provide practical information for both the newcomer and the expert in radar polarimetry. The text offers a concise description of the mathematical fundamentals illustrated with many examples using SAR data, with a main focus on remote sensing of the earth.
The book begins with basics of synthetic aperture radar to provide the basis for understanding how polarimetric SAR images are...
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247. |  By: Robert C. Hansen; Robert E. Collin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Small Antenna Handbook
Uniquely explains in detail how small antennas work and ways to improve their performance
This book addresses the recent significant theoretical and practical developments in the electrically small antenna (ESA) area.??Examining antenna designs that work as well as those that have limitations, it offers the latest information on electromagnetically coupled structures and improving bandwidth using spherical helix dipoles, the exact derivation of Q for electrically small antennas for both TE and TM modes,??a new simplified Q formula developed by the authors, and discussions of...
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248. |  By: Gernot Hueber; Robert Bogdan Staszewski Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 22-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Summarizes cutting-edge physical layer technologies for multi-mode wireless RF transceivers.
Includes original contributions from distinguished researchers and professionals.
Covers cutting-edge physical layer technologies for multi-mode wireless RF transceivers.
Contributors are all leading researchers and professionals in this field.
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249. |  Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology By: S. Sitharama Iyengar; Nandan Parameshwaran; Vir V. Phoha; N. Balakrishnan; Chuka D. Okoye Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 14-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology
This book provides the basics needed to develop sensor network software and supplements it with many case studies covering network applications. It also examines how to develop onboard applications on individual sensors, how to interconnect these sensors, and how to form networks of sensors, although the major aim of this book is to provide foundational principles of developing sensor networking software and critically examine sensor network applications.
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250. |  Radio Frequency Circuit Design, 2nd Edition By: W. Alan Davis Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 28-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Radio Frequency Circuit Design, 2nd Edition
This book focuses on components such as filters, transformers, amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Even the phase lock loop chapter (the last in the book) is oriented toward practical circuit design, in contrast to the more systems orientation of most communication texts.
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251. |  Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks
The Only Resource to Cover Wireless, Wireline, and Optical Networks in One Volume
Mobile and stationary next-generation networks that access the photonic core are destined to become as ubiquitous as traditional telephone networks. These networks must efficiently provide adequate network quality to multimedia applications with high bandwidth and strict quality-of-service requirements, as well as seamlessly integrate mobile and fixed architectures. Today's engineering students must be properly prepared to meet the challenges of next-generation network development and...
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252. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 14-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Learn how to implement BCU methods for fast direct stability assessments of electric power systems
Electric power providers around the world rely on stability analysis programs to help ensure uninterrupted service to their customers. These programs are typically based on step-by-step numerical integrations of power system stability models to simulate system dynamic behaviors. Unfortunately, this offline practice is inadequate to deal with current operating environments. For years, direct methods have held the promise of providing real-time stability assessments; however, these methods...
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253. |  Liquid Crystal Displays: Fundamental Physics and Technology By: Robert H. Chen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 20-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Liquid Crystal Displays: Fundamental Physics and Technology
An unprecedented look into the basic physics, chemistry, and technology behind the LCD
Most notably used for computer screens, televisions, and mobile phones, LCDs (liquid crystal displays) are a pervasive and increasingly indispensable part of our lives. Providing both an historical and a business-minded context, this extensive resource describes the unique scientific and engineering techniques used to create these beautiful, clever, and eminently useful devices.
In this book, the history of the science and technology behind the LCD is described in a prelude to the development of the...
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254. |  Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 02-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems
The Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems is a single comprehensive reference on the smart antenna technologies applied to RFID. This book will provide a timely reference book for researchers and students in the areas of both smart antennas and RFID technologies. It is the first book to combine two of the most important wireless technologies together in one book. The handbook will feature chapters by leading experts in both academia and industry offering an in-depth description of terminologies and concepts related to smart antennas in various RFID systems applications. Some topics...
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255. |  Connections for the Digital Age: Multimedia Communications for Mobile, Nomadic and Fixed Devices By: E. Bryan Carne Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Connections for the Digital Age: Multimedia Communications for Mobile, Nomadic and Fixed Devices
Explores and analyzes past and current technologies and trends in multimedia communication
Digital natives—those persons born in the digital age—have an ever-widening range of wireless-enabled devices at their disposal. They are the drivers of multimedia communications, continually seeking out the technologies and distribution channels that best match their needs. This book outlines the changes in telecommunications that are occurring to meet these needs. It addresses the continually increasing requirement to provide connections that make the electronic encounter as natural and...
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256. |  Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems By: Ki Bang Lee Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 02-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems
The building blocks of MEMS design through closed-form solutions
Microelectromechanical Systems, or MEMS, is the technology of very small systems; it is found in everything from inkjet printers and cars to cell phones, digital cameras, and medical equipment. This book describes the principles of MEMS via a unified approach and closed-form solutions to micromechanical problems, which have been recently developed by the author and go beyond what is available in other texts. The closed-form solutions allow the reader to easily understand the linear and nonlinear behaviors of MEMS and their...
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257. |  Fuzzy Control and Identification By: John H. Lilly Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fuzzy Control and Identification
This book gives an introduction to basic fuzzy logic and Mamdani and Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems. The text shows how these can be used to control complex nonlinear engineering systems, while also also suggesting several approaches to modeling of complex engineering systems with unknown models.
Finally, fuzzy modeling and control methods are combined in the book, to create adaptive fuzzy controllers, ending with an example of an obstacle-avoidance controller for an autonomous vehicle using modus ponendo tollens logic.
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258. |  Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering By: B. W. Oppenheim Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 27-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering
"Bohdan W. Oppenheim has pulled together experience-based insights of experts across industry, government, and academia into a comprehensive sourcebook for lean systems engineering principles and practices. This book can educate those new to lean engineering, as well as provide new insights and enablers that best-in-class organizations will want to adopt." —Dr. Donna H. Rhodes, Principal Research Scientist, SEAri and LAI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Lean for Systems Engineering is targeted at the practitioner who is trying to make systems engineering more effective in her or...
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259. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Lithography
A Unified Summary of the Models and Optimization Methods Used in Computational Lithography
Optical lithography is one of the most challenging areas of current integrated circuit manufacturing technology. The semiconductor industry is relying more on resolution enhancement techniques (RETs), since their implementation does not require significant changes in fabrication infrastructure. Computational Lithography is the first book to address the computational optimization of RETs in optical lithography, providing an in-depth discussion of optimal optical proximity correction (OPC), phase...
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260. |  By: Doyeol Ahn; Seoung-Hwan Park Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 23-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Quantum Mechanics
There has been growing interest in the model of semiconductor lasers with non-Markovian relaxation. Introducing senior and graduate students and research scientists to quantum mechanics concepts, which are becoming an essential tool in modern engineering, Engineering Quantum Mechanics develops a non-Markovian model for the optical gain of semiconductor, taking into account the rigorous electronic band-structure and the non-Markovian relaxation using the quantum statistical reduced-density operator formalism. Example programs based on Fortran 77 are provided for band-structures of...
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