Microwave/RF Applicators and Probes: for Material Heating, Sensing, and Plasma Generation, 3rd Edition is a comprehensive resource that presents the design rules and principles of high-frequency applicators and probes for material processing and sensing applications. The key design principles of various applicators and probes are often quite similar and, once understood, can be readily applied to diverse applications, thus avoiding a great deal of design trial and error. After covering the basics of field-material interactions, the book reviews and categorizes probes and applicators, demonstrates their real-world applications, and offers numerically solved examples. This book is written with three goals in mind. First, to bring together the overall area of high-frequency applicators and probes for material interactions as an integrated science; second, and even more importantly, to be a useful reference to those who design these devices, and; third, to provide an update on the most recent developments and findings in this area.

• Presents the latest information on how the interactions of materials with electromagnetic fields at high frequencies give rise to a vast array of practical applications in industry, science, medicine, and consumer markets
• Provides thoroughly revised and expanded coverage, capturing the most recent developments and findings
• Specifically targets those readers designing and working with microwave and RF applicators and probes by offering a clear description of the principles involved, along with design rules and equations as well as worked examples