Electrical engineering

Now in its Third Edition, Alternative Energy Systems: Design and Analysis with Induction Generators has been renamed Modeling and Analysis with Induction Generators to convey the book's primary objective-to present the fundamentals of and latest advances in the modeling and analysis of induction generators.

Photovoltaic Laboratory: Safety, Code-Compliance, and Commercial Off-the-Shelf Equipment is the only textbook that offers students the opportunity to design, build, test, and troubleshoot practical PV systems based on commercially available equipment.

Harmonics, Power Systems, and Smart Grids, Second Edition compiles the most relevant aspects of harmonics in a way that the unfamiliar reader can better grasp the subject matter and the experienced reader can directly access specific subjects of interest.

The science and technology of biomechanics and robotics promise to be some of the most influential research directions of the twenty-first century.

An Alternative to Copper-Based Interconnect TechnologyWith an increase in demand for more circuit components on a single chip, there is a growing need for nanoelectronic devices and their interconnects (a physical connecting medium made of thin metal films between several electrical nodes in a semiconducting chip that transmit signals from one point to another without any distortion).

This book fills the gap between failure analysis theory and the actual conducts of the failure cases.

This comprehensive textbook covers all subjects on linear circuit theory, with the emphasis on learning the subject without an excessive amount of information.

A Totally Different Outlook on Power Electronic System Analysis Power Electronic Systems: Walsh Analysis with MATLAB(R) builds a case for Walsh analysis as a powerful tool in the study of power electronic systems.

Suitable for readers from broad backgrounds, Graphene: Energy Storage and Conversion Applications describes the fundamentals and cutting-edge applications of graphene-based materials for energy storage and conversion systems.

This book provides a synthesis of the multifaceted field of interactive multimodal information management.

Advances in mathematical methods, computer technology, and electrotechnical devices in particular continue to result in the creation of programs that are leading to increased labor productivity.

The Seventh Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics was held on the campus of the University of Rochester during the four-day period June 7 - 10, 1996.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coherent Optical Processes in Semiconductors was held in Cambridge, England on August 11-14,1993.

In recent years, III-V devices, integrated circuits, and superconducting integrated circuits have emerged as leading contenders for high-frequency and ultrahigh- speed applications.

Image motion processing is important to machine vision systems because it can lead to the recovery of 3D structure and motion.

This book is the second in a series of scientific textbooks designed to cover advances in selected research fields from a basic and general viewpoint, so that only limited knowledge is required to understand the significance of recent developments.

This book is concerned primarily with the fundamental theory underlying the physical and chemical properties of crystalIine semiconductors.

Designed for senior electrical engineering students, this textbook explores the theoretical concepts of digital signal processing and communication systems by presenting laboratory experiments using real-time DSP hardware.

Higher circuit densities, increasingly more complex application ohjectives, and advanced packaging technologies have suhstantially increased the need to incorporate defect-tolerance and fault-tolerance in the design of VLSI and WSI systems.

This book is the product of Research Study Group (RSG) 13 on "e;Human Engineering Evaluation on the Use of Colour in Electronic Displays,"e; of Panel 8, "e;Defence Applications of Human and Biomedical Sciences,"e; of the NATO Defence Research Group.

The International Symposium on Biomagnetic Stimulation was held on July 15, 1991 at the International Hall of the Hakozaki campus of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.

This book contains the proceedings ofthe meeting on "e;Applied Mathematics in the Aerospace Field,"e; held in Erice, Sicily, Italy from September 3 to September 10, 1991.

This book presents a current review ofphotonic technologies and their applications.

In this book we present a snapshot of the state of the art in photonics in 1994, showing typical applications and emerging new ones; discussing the key technologies behind these applications, their limitations, and prospects.

The Optical Society of America Conference on Applications of High Fields and Short Wavelength Sources, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from March 20-22, 1997, was an exceptionally exciting conference.

In response to the increasing interest in developing photonic switching fabrics, this book gives an overview of the many technologies from a systems designer's perspective.

This is an elementary textbook on an advanced topic: broadband telecommunica- tion networks.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

In this revised and expanded edition, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the tools, technologies, and physical models needed to understand, build, and analyze microdevices.

The first Stanford MIPS project started as a special graduate course in 1981.

This book was undertaken to provide a text and reference on the theory and practice of the FFT and its common usage.

Testing Static Random Access Memories covers testing of one of the important semiconductor memories types; it addresses testing of static random access memories (SRAMs), both single-port and multi-port.

This book aims at providing a view of the current trends in the development of research on Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems.

Switched-Current Signal Processing and A/D Conversion Circuits: Design and Implementation describes the design and implementation of switched-current (SI) circuits with emphasis on signal processing and data-conversion applications.

Static and Dynamic Performance Limitations for High Speed D/A Converters discusses the design and implementation of high speed current-steering CMOS digital-to-analog converters.

System-on-a-Chip (SOC) integrated circuits composed of embedded cores are now commonplace.

Signal Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compression and Transmission establishes a bridge between the fields of signal recovery and image and video compression.

Embedded core processors are becoming a vital part of today's system-on-a-chip in the growing areas of telecommunications, multimedia and consumer electronics.

It is well known that embedded systems have to be implemented efficiently.

The area of analog integrated circuits is facing some serious challenges due to the ongoing trends towards low supply voltages, low power consumption and high-frequency operation.

Real World Speech Processing brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast-moving area.

Radar Signal Processing and Its Applications brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast-moving area.

Quantitative Feedback Design of Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems is a self-contained book dealing with the theory and practice of Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT).

Principles of Mobile Communication provides an authoritative treatment of the fundamentals of mobile communications, one of the fastest growing areas of the modern telecommunications industry.

A uniquely practical book, this monograph is the first to describe basic and applied spectroscopic techniques for the study of physical processes in high frequency, electrodeless discharge lamps.

Power Electronic Semiconductor Switches is the successor to Professor Ramshaw's widely-used Power Electronics.