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If you are interested in reviewing a book for IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, please visit our Web site at http://www.ieee.org/cdmag for a complete list of available titles. of the book. Electrical performance of the passive device is explained elsewhere, but this book relates the process parameter into electrical performance. The book is suitable for the practicing engineer. It uses just the right dose of the math to explain the physics and theory behind the technology. tation and physical insight. The concept of self-impedance of a single element and an array is discussed, concluding with the extension to the planar elements of arbitrary shape. The modifications of the theory in Chapter 4 to analyze the dipole arrays and slot arrays in a stratified medium are presented in Chapters 5 and 6, respectively. The developments gradually proceed from one boundary to two boundaries and then to general stratified medium. The discussions on the free and forced surface waves, as well as the onset of trapped and freespace grating lobes, are very useful. The design aspects are presented in Chapters 7 and 8. These two chapters alone are valuable. Chapter 7 discusses the design procedure for the hybrid radome or the bandpass filter, while Chapter 8 contains the design of band-stop and Dichroic filters. The book takes a slight turn in Chapter 9 to discuss FSSs made from lossy elements including the Salisbury screen, the Jaumann absorber, and the circuit analog absorber. The design issue of the power handling of periodic surfaces is then presented in Chapter 10. Approximate calculations of voltage breakdown of wire and slot elements are provided. The last chapter of the book summarizes the important issues in the book and future trends of the periodic surfaces. The book is well organized and worth reading. It is suitable for use as a textbook on FSSs, as well as for anyone working on periodic surfaces, whether FSS radomes, phased arrays, absorbers, polarizers, or dichroic reflectors. The analysis and design concepts, as well as physical insight, presented in this book would provide the reader a great benefit. The common misconceptions on each subject discussed by the author also make this book distinguished. Numerous practical examples, as well as the exercise problems are found to be very helpful for understanding the materials.
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INTEGRATED PASSIVE COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY

Edited by Richard K. Ulrich and Leonard W. Schaper, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2003. The book offers a comprehensive look at the reasons and current challenges and process and modeling to integrate passive devices into board or IC. The book also touches on test chips and testing for device measurement. At first it seems that this book only covers integration of passive devices into board; however, many methods and modeling issues related to IC are covered. Detailed explanations of fabrication/ material parameters and their geometrical impact to the making of particular passive devices are shown. For example, one chapter covers dielectric material for capacitors, another chapter covers geometrical impacts to capacitors, another chapter covers different processes in making/integrating capacitors, and another chapter covers defect/yield. Modeling for the passive devices is also explained. The modeling itself is fairly complicated depending on the material and the configuration/layout. The book also provides the extraction parameters for the device. Besides fabrication and modeling, the book explains the electrical performance of passive devices well. The resonance frequency of the device is explained. Fabrication/process parameters impact to the electrical performance is explained. Tricking the process parameter to target particular electrical performance is described. This may be the strongest part
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FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES: THEORY AND DESIGN

By Ben A. Munk, Wiley Interscience, 2000. This book provides a comprehensive theory for the analysis and design of frequency selective surfaces (FSSs). It contains unique material not found in any other publications on the same subject. It covers a complete theory of periodic surfaces, multilayered FSSs, bandpass and bandstop filters design and their practical application, circuit analog absorbers, as well as power handling of periodic surfaces. The first two chapters provide the reader with an introduction to periodic surfaces. Chapter 1 contains the definition, the history, and the application of periodic surfaces, as well as the basic ideas that are used to develop the theory and design to follow. The discussion and comparison of the element types that are most commonly used for FSSs are presented in Chapter 2. The importance of this chapter is to provide an understanding of the performance of elements based on element shapes, array grids, and current modes on the elements. The next four chapters cover the theoretical development for analyzing the periodic structures, beginning with an overview of the analysis approach, which is a mixture of the mutual impedance and the plane wave expansion approaches (Chapter 3). The author explains the mutual impedance concept for the periodic structure well. The development of the spectral expansion of one- and two-dimensional periodic structures is then given in Chapter 4, along with its physical interpre8755-3996/04/$20.00 2004 IEEE

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