Electromagnetics Explained

Ron Schmitt’s Electromagnetics Explained: A Handbook for Wireless/RF, EMC and High Speed Electronics is a guide and reference for engineers, scientists, technicians who need to apply the concepts of electromagnetics to real-world problems in electrical engineering.

Disciplines include radio-frequency design, high speed digital design, and electromagnetic compatibility. Electromagnetism is the theory that underlies all of electronics and circuitry. With circuit theory being only an approximation, many problems, such as radiation and transmission line effects, require a working knowledge of electromagnetic concepts. Practical tips and examples of real applications of electromagnetic concepts are included to help bridge the gap between theory and practice.

This 359-page book costs $34.99. Contact Elsevier Science, 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041, phone: (781) 904-2500.


Dual Elastomer RFI Shielding Gaskets

Vanguard’s catalog shows an increased assortment of coextruded elastomer shielding gaskets with a unique conductive outer jacket over a pure elastomer inner core. This yields both a conductive surface and active inner core with no compromised electrical or mechanical performance. New cost-effective microbridge styles and high performance sponge core styles are also available.

Contact Vanguard Products Corp., 87 Newtown Rd., Danbury, CT 06810, phone: (203) 744-7265.

EMC Measurement Uncertainty Guide

An engineering guide on measurement uncertainty in EMC tests has been published by Schaffner EMC Inc. This handy reference provides a clear, straightforward explanation of how to calculate and apply measurement uncertainty, and how to minimize it in the testing procedure.

The EMC Measurement Uncertainty Guide provides the basic concepts for identifying the relevant contributions to uncertainty, and the calculation of total uncertainty from these contributions. It includes sections on emissions uncertainties, conducted tests, radiated tests, disturbance power, immunity uncertainties, transients, surges, and harmonics and flicker uncertainties. This EMC guide also briefly covers the effect of the new CISPR-based emissions standards document, CISPR 16, CISPR 16-4(3), on measurement uncertainty and how it must be calculated.

For a free copy of EMC Measurement Uncertainty, A Handy Guide, contact MaryJane Salvador, Schaffner EMC Inc., 52 Mayfield Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837, phone: (732) 255-9533 ext. 239, fax: (732) 225-4789, or visit www.schaffner.com.

Microwave Wireless Circuits and Components Book

Edited by Mike Golio, Commercial Wireless Circuits and Components Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of microwave and wireless circuits as well as components design.

Twenty-four articles provide overviews on the fundamentals of transmitters and receivers, including specific topics such as low noise amplifier design, microwave mixer design; modulation and demodulation circuitry; power amplifier circuits; oscillator circuits; phase locked loop design, filters and multipliers; RF switches; RF package design and development; guided wave propagation and transmission lines; linear measurements; network analyzer calibration; noise measurements; nonlinear microwave measurements and characterization; theory of high power load-pull characterization for RF and microwave transistors; pulsed measurements; microwave on-wafer tests; high volume microwave tests; computer-aided design of passive components; nonlinear RF and microwave circuit analysis; computer-aided design of microwave circuitry and nonlinear transistor modeling for circulation simulation.

This 402-page book is available for $99.95. Contact CRC Press LLC, 2000 NW Corporate Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33431-9868, phone: (800) 272-7737.