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Ridge waveguides and passive microwave components [Book Reviews]

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tion, spectroscopic measurements,
lasing, physics and chemistry of poly-
mer LEDs, organic field-effect transis-
tors, and plastic solar cells. This book
is an up-to-date work on polymer elec-
tronics, including in-depth materials
characterization and basic science
background. It could enable a re-
searcher to learn about the latest areas
of research in the exciting and promis-
ing field of plastic electronics.
Ridge Waveguides and
Passive Microwave
Components
J. Helszajn
The Institution of Electrical Engineers
P.O. Box 96
Stevenage, Herts SG1 2SD
UK
ISBN 0-85296-794-2
Phone: +44 1438 313311
Fax: +44 1438 742792
http://www.iee.org.uk
Ordering Information—the Americas:
The Institution of Electrical Engineers
C/o Whitehurst & Clark
100 Newfield Ave.
Edison, NJ 08837
327 pp. - $98.00 (Hardback), 2000
Ridge waveguides are conventional
rectangular metal waveguides with one
or more metal ridges running down the
length of the waveguide. The primary
advantage of the ridge guide over a
conventional rectangular waveguide is
in the wider separation between the
dominant mode and the first order
mode. This leads to lower dispersion
and attenuation when compared to
conventional rectangular waveguides.
Another advantage includes an imped-
ance between free space (377 Ω) and
coaxial and stripline structures (50 Ω).
depending on the ridge dimensions
and shape.
All the parameters typically associ-
ated with waveguides—such as wave
cut-off frequency, impedance, propa-
gation constant, attenuation, transi-
tions, polarization, and filtering—are
calculated. For comparison purposes
and to obtain a consistent nomencla-
ture, the author has calculated these
parameters for both conventional and
ridge rectangular waveguides. This re-
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ally helps if you are not used to desig-
nations for ridge waveguides. These
parameters are calculated for single
ride and double ride waveguides using
both the transverse resonance method
for closed form solutions, and the fi-
nite element method (FEM) to avoid
having to describe the fringing fields at
the edges of the ridge. Impedance,
propagation constant, and circular po-
larization parameters, for dielectric
loaded ridge waveguides, are also
thoroughly investigated using an
FEM. Other devices covered are the
quadruple ridge waveguide, Faraday
rotation, discontinuity effects, cross-
guide directional couplers, filter de-
sign, isolators, phase-shifters, finline
wave- guides, and circulators. The
book concludes with a nice dose of
variational calculus and a thirteen-
page bibliography.
While fairly mathematical, this book
is very readable and anyone familiar
with microwave and electromagnetics
will have no problems following the
derivations. The profuse illustrations
help to make this an excellent refer-
ence book on ridge waveguides and,
because of the review, it is a great refer-
ence on conventional rectangular
waveguides. This book is primarily in-
tended for those who work with
waveguides, design waveguides, or
build systems using waveguides, which
can include our readers who design the
dielectrics for waveguides or perhaps
use frequency domain techniques to
characterize dielectrics.
Aging Power Delivery
Infrastructures
H.L. Willis, G.V. Welch, and R.R.
Schrieber
Marcel Dekker, Inc.
270 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016
ISBN 0-8247-8195-3
Phone: +1-800-228-1160
Fax: +1-212-685-4540
http://www.dekker.com
551 pp. - $165.00 (Hardback), 2001
As utilities deregulate, they will be
forced by increasing levels of competi-
tion to improve the quality of service at
a reduced cost. This becomes very dif-
ficult to achieve with aging electrical
delivery systems, especially in older in-
stalled systems where demand is grow-
ing. Ageing power delivery systems re-
sult in poor power quality and frequent
and lengthy outages. The utilities and
service providers are unwilling to mod-
ernize the present systems due to the
prohibitively large capital investment
with little short-term return. There-
fore, the utilities must take a new ap-
proach to planning, designing, operat-
ing, and managing their systems. Smart
choices must be made with the avail-
able funds to incrementally improve
the system through well though out
plans that gain the most return on in-
vestment for the utility. This reference
and tutorial book presents the prob-
lems with ageing power systems in the
U.S. and methods for improving the ef-
ficiencies of existing systems through
planning, engineering, operations, and
management.
Between 1994 and 1999 the authors,
all from the ABB Power T&D group,
studied this problem and compiled a va-
riety of innovative and proven tech-
niques from around the world for im-
proving power delivery with ageing sys-
tems. This book summarizes the best
practices from this study. The first six
chapters provide the tutorial back-
ground. Chapters 7–9 reveal expected
equipment lifetimes, obsolete system
structures, and the limitations of tradi-
tional reliability planning. The final
seven chapters describe the current
methods and technology used to im-
prove system performance/reliability
while maintaining a competitive advan-
tage. Some of the methods cover pri-
mary distribution planning, assessing
equipment condition and refurbish-
ing/renewing, prior- itizing and plan-
ning equipment replacements, and reli-
ability and management strategies. The
summaries, at the end of each chapter,
help to clarify all the important topics
made in the chapter.
Utility planners, systems engineers,
and managers will find this an excel-
lent source book for generating ideas
and insuring that other approaches are
considered when upgrading old power
systems or adding new systems.
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