Microwave/RF Applicators and Probes: for Material Heating, Sensing, and Plasma Generation, Third Edition presents the design rules and principles of high-frequency applicators and probes for material processing and sensing applications. After covering the basics of field-material interactions, the book reviews and categorizes probes and applicators, demonstrates real-world applications, and offers numerically solved examples. Sections bring together the overall area of high-frequency applicators and probes for material interactions as an integrated science, provide a useful reference to those who design these devices, and present an update on the most recent developments and findings. 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.

• 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
• Targets readers designing and working with microwave and RF applicators and probes by offering a clear description of principles involved, along with design rules, equations, and worked examples