Ricky Metaxas is a Teaching Fellow at the University Engineering Department and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He received a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Physics in 1968 from Imperial College, London, for work on two stage ionisation phenomena in radio frequency discharges. In 1968 he joined the Department of Physics at the University College of Swansea, Wales, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow where he worked on problems related to fusion reactors. Between 1972 and 1982 he was a member of the Electrophysics Group of the Electricity Council Research Centre, England, where he specialised in industrial applications of radio frequency and microwave energy. Since 1982 Dr Metaxas has been teaching topics related to energy utilisation and electroheat. In 1986 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Microwave Power Institute for the most significant contribution to the Journal of Microwave Power during 1985.
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: Dielectric loss
* Chapter 3: Dielectric properties
* Chapter 4: Theoretical aspects of volumetric heating
* Chapter 5: Travelling wave applicators
* Chapter 6: Multimode oven applicators
* Chapter 7: Single mode resonant cavities
* Chapter 8: Special applicator structures
* Chapter 9: The microwave heating circuit, breakdown phenomena
andvacuum processing
* Chapter 10: Hazards, leakage and safety
* Chapter 11: Industrial applications
* Appendix 1: Definitions of moisture content
* Appendix 2: Conversion of various units to SI units
* Appendix 3: Some useful trigonometric functions and formulae
* Appendix 4: Some useful series and Bessel functions
* Appendix 5: Some useful constants and temperature interrelation
* Appendix 6: Relation between dB and power and voltage ratios
following the function dB = 20 log10(VA/VB) = 10 log10(PA/PB)
* Appendix 7: Waveguide frequency ranges, dimensions and official
designations
* Appendix 8: Glossary of radio frequency and microwave heating terms
used in this book
