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The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Third Edition - 6 Volume Set edited by Richard C. Dorf (Electrical Engineering Handbook Series: CRC Press) comprised six hefty volumes available individually as Circuits, Signals, and Speech and Image Processing; Electronics, Power Electronics, Optoelectronics, Microwaves, Electromagnetics, and Radar; Sensors, Nanoscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Instruments; Broadcasting and Optical Communication Technology; Computers, Software Engineering, and Digital Devices; Systems, Controls, Embedded Systems, Energy, and Machines.

In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our knowledge continues to grow, and so does the Handbook. For the third edition, it has expanded into a set of six books carefully focused on a specialized area or field of study. Each book represents a concise yet definitive collection of key concepts, models, and equations in its respective domain, thoughtfully gathered for convenient access. The purpose of The Electrical Engineering Handbook, 3rd Edition is to provide a ready reference for the practicing engineer in industry, government, and academia, as well as aid students of engineering. Combined, they constitute the most comprehensive, authoritative resource available.

Providing the basic information needed for a thorough understanding of each area, this Third Edition comprises the following six volumes:

1. Circuits, Signals, and Speech and Image Processing

2. Electronics, Power Electronics, Optoelectronics, Microwaves, Electromagnetics, and Radar

3. Sensors, Nanoscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Instruments

4. Broadcasting and Optical Communication Technology

5. Computers, Software Engineering, and Digital Devices

6. Systems, Controls, Embedded Systems, Energy, and Machines

Encompassing the work of the world's foremost experts in their respective specialties, The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Third Edition remains the most convenient, reliable source of information available. This edition features the latest information, the broadest scope of coverage, and new material on nanotechnologies, fuel cells, embedded systems, and biometrics. The engineering community has relied on the Handbook for more than twelve years, and it will continue to be a platform to launch the next wave of advancements.

Each volume is edited by Richard C. Dorf, and is a comprehensive format that encompasses the many aspects of electrical engineering with articles from internationally recognized contributors. The goal is to provide the most up-to-date information in the classical fields of circuits, signal processing, electronics, electromagnetic fields, energy devices, systems, and electrical effects and devices, while covering the emerging fields of communications, Nanotechnology, biometrics, digital devices, computer engineering, systems, and biomedical engineering. In addition, the final section provides a complete compendium of information regarding physical, chemical, and materials data, as well as widely inclusive information on mathematics. Many articles from theses six volumes have been completely revised or updated to fit the needs of today, and many new chapters have been added. Two indexes have been compiled for each volume to provide multiple means of accessing information: the subject index and index of contributing authors. The subject index can also be used to locate key definitions. The page on which the definition appears for each key (defining) term is clearly identified in the subject index.

The Electrical Engineering Handbook, 3rd Edition is designed to provide answers to most inquiries and direct the inquirer to further sources and references. It is likely that this handbook will be referred to often and that informational requirements will be satisfied effectively. 

The purpose of Circuits, Signals, and Speech and Image Processing is to provide a ready reference to subjects in the fields of electric circuits and components, analysis of circuits, and the use of the Laplace transform. We also discuss the processing of signals, speech, and images using filters and algorithms. Here we provide the basic information for understanding these fields. We also provide information about the emerging fields of text-to-speech synthesis, real-time processing, embedded signal processing, and biometrics.

The information is organized into three sections. The first two sections encompass 27 chapters and the last section summarizes the applicable mathematics, symbols, and physical constants.

Most articles include three important and useful categories: defining terms, references, and further information. Defining terms are key definitions and the first occurrence of each term defined is indicated in boldface in the text. The definitions of these terms are summarized as a list at the end of each chapter or article. The references provide a list of useful books and articles for follow-up reading. Finally, further information provides some general and useful sources of additional information on the topic.

Numerous avenues of access to information are provided. A complete table of contents is presented at the front of the book. In addition, an individual table of contents precedes each section. Finally, each chapter begins with its own table of contents. The reader should look over these tables of contents to become familiar with the structure, organization, and content of the book. For example, see Section II: Signal Processing, then Chapter 18: Multidimensional Signal Processing, and then Chapter 18.2: Video Signal Processing. This tree-­and-branch table of contents enables the reader to move up the tree to locate information on the topic of interest. 

The purpose of Electronics, Power Electronics, Optoelectronics, Microwaves, Electromagnetics, and Radar is to provide a ready reference to subjects in the fields of electronics, integrated circuits, power electronics, optoelectronics, electromagnetics, light waves, and radar. We also include a section on electrical effects and devices. Here we provide the basic information for understanding these fields. We also provide information about the emerging fields of microlithography and power electronics.

The information is organized into four sections. The first three sections encompass 29 chapters and the last section summarizes the applicable mathematics, symbols, and physical constants.

Most articles include three important and useful categories: defining terms, references, and further information. Defining terms are key definitions and the first occurrence of each term defined is indicated in boldface in the text. The definitions of these terms are summarized as a list at the end of each chapter or article. The references provide a list of useful books and articles for follow-up reading. Finally, further information provides some general and useful sources of additional information on the topic.

Numerous avenues of access to information are provided. A complete table of contents is presented at the front of the book. In addition, an individual table of contents precedes each section. Finally, each chapter begins with its own table of contents. The reader should look over these tables of contents to become familiar with the structure, organization, and content of the book. For example, see Section II: Electromagnetics, then Chapter 17: Antennas, and then Chapter 17.2: Aperture. This tree-and-branch table of contents enables the reader to move up the tree to locate information on the topic of interest. 

The purpose of Sensors, Nanoscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Instruments  is to provide a ready reference to subjects in the fields of sensors, materials and nanoscience, instruments and measurements, and biomedical systems and devices. Here we provide the basic information for understanding these fields. We also provide information about the emerging fields of sensors, nanotechnologies, and biological effects.

The information is organized into three sections. The first two sections encompass 10 chapters and the last section summarizes the applicable mathematics, symbols, and physical constants.

Most articles include three important and useful categories: defining terms, references, and further information. Defining terms are key definitions and the first occurrence of each term defined is indicated in boldface in the text. The definitions of these terms are summarized as a list at the end of each chapter or article. The references provide a list of useful books and articles for follow-up reading. Finally, further information provides some general and useful sources of additional information on the topic.

Numerous avenues of access to information are provided. A complete table of contents is presented at the front of the book. In addition, an individual table of contents precedes each section. Finally, each chapter begins with its own table of contents. The reader should look over these tables of contents to become familiar with the structure, organization, and content of the book. For example, see Section II: Biomedical Systems,

then Chapter 7: Bioelectricity, and then Chapter 7.2: Bioelectric Events. This tree-and-branch table of contents enables the reader to move up the tree to locate information on the topic of interest. 

The purpose of Broadcasting and Optical Communication Technology is to provide a ready reference to subjects in the field of communications, including broadcasting, equalization, optical communication, computer networks, ad hoc wireless networks, information theory, satellites and aerospace, digital video processing, and mobile communications. Here we provide the basic information for understanding these fields. We also provide information about bandwidth modulation, phase-locked loops, telemetry, and computer-aided design and analysis of communication systems.

The information is organized into two major sections. The first section encompasses 13 chapters and the last section summarizes the applicable mathematics, symbols, and physical constants.

Most articles include three important and useful categories: defining terms, references, and further infor­mation. Defining terms are key definitions and the first occurrence of each term defined is indicated in boldface in the text. The definitions of these terms are summarized as a list at the end of each chapter or article. The references provide a list of useful books and articles for follow-up reading. Finally, further information provides some general and useful sources of additional information on the topic.

Numerous avenues of access to information are provided. A complete table of contents is presented at the front of the book. In addition, an individual table of contents precedes both sections. Finally, each chapter begins with its own table of contents. The reader should look over these tables of contents to become familiar with the structure, organization, and content of the book. For example, see Section I: Communications, then Chapter 1: Broadcasting, and then Chapter 1.1: Modulation and Demodulation. This tree-and-branch table of contents enables the reader to move up the tree to locate information on the topic of interest of today and many new chapters have been added. 

The purpose of Computers, Software Engineering, and Digital Devices is to provide a ready reference to subjects in the fields of digital and logical devices, displays, testing, software, and computers. Here we provide the basic information for understanding these fields. We also provide information about the emerging fields of programmable logic, hardware description languages, and parallel computing.

The information is organized into three sections. The first two sections encompass 20 chapters and the last section summarizes the applicable mathematics, symbols, and physical constants.

Most articles include three important and useful categories: defining terms, references, and further infor­mation. Defining terms are key definitions and the first occurrence of each term defined is indicated in boldface in the text. The definitions of these terms are summarized as a list at the end of each chapter or article. The references provide a list of useful books and articles for follow-up reading. Finally, further information provides some general and useful sources of additional information on the topic.

Numerous avenues of access to information are provided. A complete table of contents is presented at the front of the book. In addition, an individual table of contents precedes each section. Finally, each chapter begins with its own table of contents. The reader should look over these tables of contents to become familiar with the structure, organization, and content of the book. For example, see Section II: Computer Engineering, then Chapter 17: Parallel Processors, and then Chapter 17.2: Parallel Computing. This tree-and-branch table of contents enables the reader to move up the tree to locate information of the topic of interest. 

The purpose of Systems, Controls, Embedded Systems, Energy, and Machines is to provide a ready reference to subjects in the fields of energy devices, machines, and systems, as well as control systems and embedded systems. Here we provide the basic information for understanding these fields. We also provide information about the emerging fields of embedded systems.

The information is organized into three sections. The first two sections encompass 20 chapters, and the last section summarizes the applicable mathematics, symbols, and physical constants.

Most chapters include three important and useful categories: defining terms, references, and further information. Defining terms are key definitions and the first occurrence of each term defined is indicated in boldface in the text. The definitions of these terms are summarized as a list at the end most chapters or articles. The references provide a list of useful books and articles for follow-up reading. Finally, further information provides some general and useful sources of additional information on the topic.

Numerous avenues of access to information are provided. A complete table of contents is presented at the front of the book. In addition, an individual table of contents precedes each of the sections. Finally, each chapter begins with its own table of contents. The reader should look over these tables of contents to become familiar with the structure, organization and content of the book. For example, see Section I: Energy, then Chapter 2: Alternative Power Systems and Devices, and then Chapter 2.1: Distributed Power. This tree-and- branch table of contents enables the reader to move up the tree to locate information on the topic of interest.

Electricity Demystified by Stan Gibilisco (McGraw-Hill Professional) Power Up Your Understanding Of Electricity: Now anyone with an interest in electricity can master it -- without getting their wires crossed. In Electricity Demystified, bestselling science and math writer Stan Gibilisco provides an effective and painless way to improve your understanding of the electricity that powers so much of modern life.

With Electricity Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers quizzes and tests at the end of each chapter and section to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 70-question final exam to reinforce the entire book.

If you want to build or refresh your understanding of electricity, here's a fast, entertaining self-teaching course that's really electrifying! Get ready to:

• Understand what gives electricity its power

• Solve problems involving current, voltage, power, and resistance

• Grasp the connection between electricity and magnetism

• Discover how magnetic levitation works

• Learn about alternative electricity sources, such as solar energy and fuel cells

• Take a "final exam" and grade it yourself!

A fast, effective, and fun way to learn about electricity, Electricity Demystified is the perfect shortcut to a deeper understanding of one of the most powerful forces in our lives.  

Electrical Essentials for Powerline Workers, 2nd Edition by Wayne Van Soelen (Thomson Delmar Learning) fills the need for a convenient, single-volume reference source on the electrical theory that is the foundation of an electrical utility system. The second edition includes updates to many technical points, describes the equipment and situations that lineworkers deal with daily, and features information on safety. The thorough explanation of theory increases the lineworkers knowledge of the system being operated and maintained. The material is presented in a chronological order, taking the reader from an overview of power systems through current technology affecting the operation of electrical utilities.

Electrical Essentials for Powerline Workers is a comprehensive reference dealing with the electrical portion of the work that a powerline worker carries out. The book can be used as a reference book or as a training book. As a training manual, it needs to be studied in chronological order to understand the later chapters. Some of the information in this book is considered "must-know" information needed to work effectively and safely.

This book is for a person working or training to work in an electrical utility. Reference is made to equipment and material with the assumption that a reader knows what they look like. The early chapters are intended for a person entering electrical-utility work. Later chapters assume some experience as a powerline worker.

Electrical utilities have an abundance of manuals and reference material for the people in the line trade. However, most of the information supplied by the utility or employer involves work procedures, rules, and regulations. Electrical reference material can be found in widely scattered reference and training manuals. This book fills the need for a convenient single-volume electrical reference source on the operation of an electrical-utility system.

Existing sources of information tend to be very basic electricity and magnetism theory or complex theory at an engineering level. This book deals with equipment and situations to which powerline workers are exposed in their daily work.

There is a rapid growth in the technology affecting the operation of electrical utilities. Many customers have concerns about the quality of their power supply. The powerline worker has exposure, to some degree, to all aspects of an electrical-utility system. This book is intended to help a powerline worker meet the expectation that he/she will have a knowledge of the system being operated and maintained.

Power Electronic Modules: Design and Manufacture by William W. Sheng, Ronald P. Colino (CRC Press) Because of their growing importance in the power industry, power modules are attracting a lot of interest. Power Electronic Modules: Design and Manufacture includes a vast amount of useful information about the development of this product. It is organized into three sections: materials, manufacturing processes and quality control, and design and results. Most power semiconductors are either already producing or are in the process of developing power modules. The text compares different designs by building and testing actual samples. The authors explain the latest developments in the field while setting the basic foundation for power module design and manufacturing.

Excerpt: Designing and building power semiconductor modules requires a broad, interdisciplinary base of knowledge and experience, ranging from semiconductor materials and technologies, thermal management, and soldering to environmental constraints, inspection techniques, and statistical process control. Power Electronic Modules: Design and Manufacture brings together the essential elements of all of these technologies.

This volume covers not only the basic technologies, but also the latest advances in these areas. Organized into three main sections, coverage begins with discussions on the materials used and their key properties, including a comparison of those properties with the requirements of high-performance, cost-effective power modules and the pros and cons of selected materials. The focus then shifts to manufacturing processes and quality control. The authors outline each key manufacturing operation and its corresponding inspection techniques and include two detailed manufacturing flow charts, one for the standard approach and one for a new all-solder approach. The final section of the book examines actual samples based on four different designs. The authors compare these samples in terms of thermal–electrical performance, thermal–mechanical performance, physical characteristics, and cost.

Features

• Brings together practical information on all of the essential elements, materials, and technologies of power electronic modules

• Focuses on the IGBT modules

• Presents an innovative, all-solder manufacturing approach

• Includes the names of potential suppliers of materials, equipment, and services

• Compares different designs by building and testing actual samples

A power semiconductor module is basically a power circuit of different materials assembled together using hybrid technology, such as semiconductor chip attachment, wire bonding, encapsulation, etc. The materials involved cover a wide range from insulators, conductors, and semiconductors to organics and inorganics. Since these materials all behave differently under various environmental, electrical, and thermal stresses, proper selection of these materials and the assembly processes are critical. In-depth knowledge of the material properties and the processing techniques is there-fore required to build a high-performance and highly reliable power module.

Designing and building power semiconductor modules requires an integration of different technologies. Engineers need to possess basic knowledge of the following:

• Semiconductor chip

• Thermal-electrical and thermal-mechanical management

• Ceramic substrate and metallization Metallic baseplate

• Solder and soldering techniques Solder bump technology

• Plastic materials

• Power terminals

• Cleaning chemistry and technology Ultrasonic aluminum wire bonding Epoxy and coating

• Environmental constraints

• Electrical, thermal, and mechanical testing Inspection techniques and tools Analytical techniques and tools

• Reliability, statistical process control, highly accelerated life testing (HALT), highly accelerated stress screen (HASS), and life tests

• Facilities requirements

• Barcode or 2D data matrix symbol 

This diversity represents a challenge. This book is an attempt to address these needs of the rapidly growing body of engineers involved in the power semiconductor module product. It is impossible to cover the details of each of these technologies in a single book. Here, based on their past experience, the authors have presented the essential segments of each technology. This represents the basic knowledge or fundamentals required.

Power IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) module is gaining a great deal of interest lately because of its growing importance in the power industry, especially in the fields of power generation, power conversion, UPS (uninterrupted power supply), welding, robot, automotive, and AC/DC motor drive. Due to its rising popularity, power IGBT modules will be the focus of discussion throughout this book, although the general technology is applicable to other types of power modules as well. Most power semiconductor OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) are currently either already producing or in the process of actively developing this IGBT product. A great deal of research in this field has also been conducted in universities. As a result, numerous articles have been published in technical journals and also presented in many power conferences. This represents a vast amount of useful but scattered information. Therefore, in addition to establishing the basic foundation for power module design and manufacturing, the authors have built upon the latest developments and presented those that are considered appropriate.

Although this book specifically addresses thermal management of power IGBT modules, the knowledge presented is generally applicable to thermal management of most electronic products. As function and power density are increasing in almost all facets of the electronics industry, thermal management has become ever more important to ensure long-term reliability. This includes thermal management of electronic products from consumer electronics through military/aerospace applications. Areas of application may include RF transmitters, cell phones, microprocessors, memories, automotive products, portable/hand held electronics devices, etc. The information presented here is applicable to these and many more electronics projects.

The book is organized into three basic sections:

• Materials

• Manufacturing processes and quality control

• Design and results

In each section, the emphasis is on the practical aspect. The intention is to allow the readers to apply this information directly to their work or study.

Throughout the book, names of companies that supply certain materials and equipment or that provide specific services are listed. These names are meant only as reference and do not represent any endorsement by the authors.

This book is intended to serve:

• Design, process, quality control, and application engineers working with power modules

• Researchers and university students in the field of power electronics

Electrical Machine Analysis Using Finite Elements by Nicola Bianchi (Power Electronics and Applications: CRC Press) From the fan motor in your PC to precision control of aircraft, electrical machines of all sizes, varieties, and levels of complexity permeate our world. Some are very simple, while others require exacting and application-specific design. Electrical Machine Analysis Using Finite Elements provides the tools necessary for the analysis and design of any type of electrical machine by integrating mathematical/numerical techniques with analytical and design methodologies.

Building successively from simple to complex analyses, this book leads you step-by-step through the procedures and illustrates their implementation with examples of both traditional and innovative machines. Although the examples are of specific devices, they demonstrate how the procedures apply to any type of electrical machine, introducing a preliminary theory followed by various considerations for the unique circumstance. The author presents the mathematical background underlying the analysis, but emphasizes application of the techniques, common strategies, and obtained results. He also supplies codes for simple algorithms and reveals analytical methodologies that universally apply to any software program.

This exceptionally applicative reference:

Presents the basic procedures for analysis that can be applied to any machine, using any software

Progresses gradually from simple to complex analyses

Uses examples to illustrate implementation of the techniques

Emphasizes common strategies, obtained results, and implementation of the techniques

Includes an appendix with valuable material data

Pays special attention to newer machines such as permanent magnet and switched reluctance motors

With step-by-step coverage of the fundamentals and common procedures, Electrical Machine Analysis Using Finite Elements offers a superior analytical framework that allows you to adapt to any electrical machine, to any software platform, and to any specific requirements that you may encounter.

For a long time the course Design Methodology of Electrical Machines has been a teaching course for electrical engineering aimed at electrical applications. This is due both to the subject that is dealt with and to the organization of the course by Prof. Luciano Merigliano, based on many years' experience with electromechanical design.

The laboratory activities of the course started in 1996, directed by myself along with Prof. Silverio Bolognani, who was the teacher in charge in those years, and to whom the credit for course innovation has to be given.

This book reports some of the laboratory exercitations of the course Design Methodology of Electrical Machines. The aim is to examine the key concepts of the finite element method, as well as to focus attention on the applications of such a method to electrical machine analysis.

Not long after the course began, the students expressed the need to have a text illustrating the analysis of the electric and magnetic devices by means of the finite element method. Tn addition, the electromechanical industries, which require accurate analyses, also had need for such a text. This was a result of the popularity of software programs for the finite element analysis of electromagnetic problems, some of which are even available on the Web. Among them, some well-known packages are ANSYS, CADEMA, FEMM, FLUX, MAXWELL, MEGA, QFIELD, and VECTOR-FIELD.

A first draft of this text was published in Italian in 2001, for the electrical engineering students at the University of Padova. It was also adopted at other Italian universities and by some industries. The present text is essen­tially a translation of the Italian version of the same text, with a few revisions.

The book is organized to meet the goal described above. Several examples of finite element analysis of the electrical machines are pointed out. Some repetitions in the various chapters are intentional, for the sake of a more fluent treatment. Some theoretical concepts, numerical techniques, and sim­ulation methods are reported gradually in the various chapters, in an effort to make for an easier read and to avoid many boring introductory chapters.

To the aim of facilitating understanding, some electrotechnical principles and some electrical machines concepts are sometimes reviewed. Moreover, simple numerical algorithms, written using MATLAB or BASIC software, are also reported. They are examples of processing the field analysis results and of the automatic computation procedures.

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