Microwave/RF Applicators and Probes

Microwave/RF Applicators and Probes: for Material Heating, Sensing, and Plasma Generation, Third Edition presents the design rules and principles of high-frequency applicators and probes for material processing and sensing applications. After covering the basics of field-material interactions, the book reviews and categorizes probes and applicators, demonstrates real-world applications, and offers numerically solved examples. Sections bring together the overall area of high-frequency applicators and probes for material interactions as an integrated science, provide a useful reference to those who design these devices, and present an update on the most recent developments and findings. The key design principles of various applicators and probes are often quite similar and, once understood, can be readily applied to diverse applications, thus avoiding a great deal of design trial and error.

Mehrdad Mehdizadeh is a Consultant in RF and microwaves in medical, industrial, and scientific applications and a Senior Member of IEEE and the IEEE Standards Committee. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering at Marquette University in 1983, with specialty in RF/microwave design. After working as an R&D engineer, first in the microwave components industry then in MRI scanner RF design, he then joined DuPont Company Engineering working on RF/microwave processes and sensors for materials, plus high-frequency materials characterization. He currently lives in Pennsylvania, USA.

1. The impact of fields on materials at microwave and radio frequencies 2. Fundamentals of field applicators and probes at radiofrequencies and microwave frequencies 3. Electric field (capacitive) applicators/probes 4. Single-mode microwave cavities for material processing and sensing 5. Microwave multimode cavities for material heating 6. Applicators and probes based on the open end of microwave transmission lines 7. Magnetic field and inductive applicators and probes at high frequencies 8. RF/microwave applicators and systems for joining and bonding of materials 9. Design considerations for applicators in continuous-flow microwave/radio frequency processing 10. Plasma applicators at RF and microwave frequencies