Electromagnetic Foundations of Solar Radiation Collection (eBook)

A.J. Sangster received a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1963, an M.Sc. in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1967, all from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His research interests have been in the areas of microwave antennas, mm-wave sensing, electrostatically driven micromotors and microactuators, electromagnetic levitation, medical applications of microwaves, microwave propagation in geological strata, satellite communications at microwave frequencies and the numerical solution of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. He is the author of over 200 papers on these topics.Professor Sangster spent four years with Ferranti plc, Edinburgh, Scotland, pursuing research into wide-band travelling wave tubes, and three years with Plessey Radar Ltd., Cowes, U.K., investigating and developing microwave devices and antennas for microwave landing systems and frequency scanned radar systems. Since 1972, he has been with the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where he became a full Professor of Electromagnetic Engineering in 1989. He retired in 2006, but continues to act in a professorial capacity as a consultant to industry on microwave component design. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology (U.K.) and a Member of the Electromagnetics Academy (U.S.A.).Since retiring he has authored three books with renewable energy and energy efficiency content, namely “Energy for a Warming World”, Springer Books, 2010, “Warming to Ecocide”, Springer Books, 2011 and “Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Levitation”, IET Books, 2012.

Chapter 1 Energy from Ancient and Modern Sunshine.- chapter 2 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.- chapter 3 Classical Radiation Theory.- chapter 4 Aperture Antennas for Solar Systems.- chapter 5 Array Antennas for Solar Systems.- chapter 6 Solar Radiation and Scattering: Waves or Particles?.- chapter 7 Solar Photovoltaics.- chapter 8 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP).- chapter 9 Solar Power Satellites (SPS).- chapter 10 Optical Antennas (Nantennas).