RF Power Semiconductor Generator Application in Heating and Energy Utilization

Part I: Introductory Materials.- Introduction.- World market.- RF power semiconductor generator.- Power supply.- Light emitting diode.- Part II: Tutorial.- Introduction of microwave heating and energy.- Theory of microwave heating and energy.- Terahertz wave semiconductor device.- Part III: Application.- Automobile.- Plasma processing.- Light source.- Microwave oven.- Medical tool (Surgical knife).- Chemical process.- Bio-material reaction.- Material processing.- Nanomaterial processing.- Wireless power transmission.- Rocket.- Part IV: Other applications.- Microwave assisted magnetic recording.- Biosensor (Heart rate, Microwave tomography).

Satoshi Horikoshi, Sophia University, Department of Materials and Life Sciences (Associate Professor). Microwave Science Research Center MSRC (Director). Satoshi Horikoshi received his Ph.D. degree in 1999, and was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at the Frontier Research Center for the Global Environment Science (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) until 2006. He joined Sophia University as Assistant Professor in 2006, moved to Tokyo University of Science as Associate Professor in 2008, after which he returned to Sophia University, again as Associate Professor, in 2011. Currently he is Director of the Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications (JEMEA), and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy a well as three other international journals. His research interests involve new functional material or nanomaterial synthesis, molecular biology, the formation of sustainable energy, and environmental protection using microwave-energy and/or photo-energy. He has co-authored over 190 scientific publications and has contributed to, and edited or co-edited, 23 books.  
Nick Serpone, Ph.D., F. EurASc. Visiting Professor, PhotoGreen Laboratory, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Pavia, Italia.  Nick Serpone is Professor Emeritus (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada), and since 2002 has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy). He was also a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bologna and Ferrara (Italy), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), École Centrale de Lyon (France), and Tokyo University of Science (Japan), and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Milan (Italy). He was Program Director at the National Science Foundation (Washington, USA) and consultant to the 3M Company (USA). He has co-edited/co-authored several books, contributed 23 chaptersto books, and published over 450