Meet the editor

Gennadiy I. Churyumov was born on February 12, 1952, in the former USSR. He received a Dipl.-Ing. in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Radiophysics from the Kharkiv Institute of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1974 and 1981, respectively. In 1997, he received a DSc from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 2002, he has been a professor at the Kharkiv

National University of Radio Electronics, where he also is a scientific adviser in the Microwave & Optoelectronics Lab. From 2002 to 2018, he served as editor in chief of the International Journal on Applied Radio Electronics. Since 2016, he has been a professor in the Electronics Engineering Department, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His personal research interests include the theory and simulation of electromagnetic problems, microwave vacuum electron tubes, and practical aspects of electromagnetic energy application. He has published more than 320 research articles including books, book chapters, journal papers, international conference proceedings, and patents. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Simona Collina*

*and Ravindra Kamble*

Heating (Overview)

**Preface XI**

Thermal Effect of Electromagnetic Field **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 35**

**Chapter 3 57**

**Chapter 4 81**

**Chapter 5 99**

**Chapter 6 123**

**Chapter 7 147**

*by Sheetal Marganakop, Pramod Kattimani, Sudha Belgur Satyanarayana* 

Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Bioactive Compounds (Review) *by Abdurahman Hamid Nour, Alara Ruth Oluwaseun, Azhari Hamid Nour,* 

Microwave-Assisted Solid Extraction from Natural Matrices *by Valeria Cavalloro, Emanuela Martino, Pasquale Linciano* 

Doping of Semiconductors at Nanoscale with Microwave

*by Sandhya K. M., Litty Thomas Manamel and Bikas C. Das*

Properties of the Resulting Oxide Nanostructures

*Eugene Odarenko and Vladimir Gerasimov*

*by Gaoming Lu and Jianjun Zhou*

Influence of the Microwaves on the Sol-Gel Syntheses and on the

*by Luminita Predoanǎ, Dániel Attila Karajz, Vincent Otieno Odhiambo, Irina Stanciu, Imre M. Szilágyi, György Pokol and Maria Zaharescu*

Microwave Heating of Low-Temperature Plasma and Its Application

Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Microwave Heating

*by Tetyana Frolova, Vyacheslav Buts, Gennadiy Churyumov,* 

on Rock Cracking and Their Mechanical Properties

*Manal Suliman Omer and Noormazlinah Ahmed*

Microwave Synthesized Functional Dyes
