Planning on attending the September 8 DLT Forum to hear Gary Podboy who will present an overview on “Phased Arrays in Acoustics Research?” You may also be interested in Spartak Gevorgian’s eBook entitled “Ferroelectrics in Microwave Devices; Circuits and Systems Physics, Modelling, Fabrication and Measurements", published by Springer in 2009 and available through the Glenn Science and Engineering Library. It's part of the Springer Chemistry and Materials Science eBook collection - Glenn employees can now access the full text of Springer Chemistry and Materials Science eBooks published between 2005 and 2010 from a NASA Glenn computer or other web-enabled device.

Today’s wireless communications and information systems are heavily based on microwave technology. The book consists of an introduction, several chapters covering the physics of ferroelectrics (engineer’s perspective), methods of fabrication and microscopic analysis, modeling and microwave measurements of the materials and devices. The basic ferroelectric components – varactors and their microwave applications in devices (phase shifters, delay lines, filters etc.), circuits (oscillators, amplifiers etc.) and systems (i.e. phased arrays) are in the focus of the book.

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