Meet the editors

Dr. Walter Gustavo Fano received his PhD in Engineering and Electronic Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. He directs the FIUBA Electromagnetic Radiation Laboratory. He was a professor at the EST Army, ITBA, UNPSJB and currently at the University of Buenos Aires. He was co-author of 3 books, 1 book chapter and 5 book chapters in press. He has published many papers in magazines and conferences. He was president of

the IEEE AP & EMC Soc. Chapter, president of the IEEE Gemccon 2016, president of the Congress of AP & EMC IEEE and UBA in 2013, and president of Advances in Antenna Test and Measurement IEEE 2011. He collaborated in the organization of numerous conferences and was a senior member of IEEE.

Adrián César Razzitte was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained his BSc degree in Chemistry, his MSc degree in Physical Chemistry and his PhD in Physical Chemistry, all at the National University of La Plata. He is currently a Full Professor of Chemical Physics and Statistical Thermodynamics in the Chemistry Department of the Engineering Faculty of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was Director of that department from 2006

to 2017. He is Head of the research group of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Professor Razzitte has had numerous research papers published in international journals and has participated in numerous international conferences on condensed matter, statistical thermodynamics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He has directed several PhD theses in engineering.

Patricia Larocca is a senior research scientist and the Director at the Institute of Applied Geodesy and Geophysics of the Faculty of Engineering of Buenos Aires University. She has a MSc degree in Physics received from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, and a PhD in Engineering received from Faculty of Engineering of Buenos Aires University. She has been an Associate Professor at the Facultad de Ingeniería for over ten years. In

2007, Dr. Larocca joined the Institute of Applied Geodesy and Geophysics and has since worked on multiple scientific topics related to space weather, from the effects of geomagnetic storms on power systems and pipelines to satellite environment and to space weather forecasts. She has been a leader and collaborator on multiple research projects dealing with impacts of space weather on pipelines, power grids, and also investigated the ionized radiation on satellite orbits. She is the author or co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on geomagnetic and space weather effects topics, one chapter of a published book and one chapter of a book currently in press.

Contents

and Magnetic Permeability *by Walter Gustavo Fano*

Fields in Dispersive Media

*by Walter Gustavo Fano*

in Electrolyte Solutions

*by Leonid Chervinsky*

*by Emeka Ikpeazu*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 49**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 103**

**Chapter 7 117**

Introductory Chapter: Causal Models of Electrical Permittivity

The Electrical Properties of Soils with Their Applications to

Electrical Conductivity of Molten Salts and Ionic Conduction

*by Shigeru Tamaki, Shigeki Matsunaga and Masanobu Kusakabe*

Study of the Electromagnetic Radiation on the Animal Body

Square-Wave Electric Impulses of 10 ms and 100 V/cm of Field Force, Produced by PGen-1 Impulse Generator Device, Affect the

Proliferation Patterns of Different Animal Cells *by Bratko Filipič, Lidija Gradišnik, Kristine Kovacs, Ferenc Somogyvari, Hrvoje Mazija and Toth Sandor*

Agriculture, Geophysics, and Engineering

Thermoelectric Properties of Chalcogenide System *by Wiqar Hussain Shah and Waqas Muhammad Khan*

## Contents


Preface

The purpose of this book is to study the interaction of electromagnetic waves, and the application of direct current signals in different media, with topics that have very important applications in science and technology today. The media where the interaction occurs are various, such as dispersive media, conductors, biological tissues of animals, and other media. The constitutive relationships that link the electric and magnetic fields with the densities of electric and magnetic flux are used, and the concepts of electrical conductivity and permittivity, electric field, magnetic

It is recommended that the reader be a graduate of engineering, physics, or an equivalent subject, where they have dealt with the topics of mechanics, physics, heat, electromagnetism, and mathematical analysis, which make advanced study of the subjects essential. To understand this text, it is necessary to have knowledge of the laws of electromagnetism and the electromagnetism equations or Maxwell's equations.

The book consists of seven chapters that are interconnected by means of concepts

In Chapter 1 we begin with the resolution of Maxwell's equations with adequate edge conditions to obtain the electric and magnetic fields, and the rest of the parameters of interest in an electromagnetic engineering problem. It is explained that the physical models of electrical permittivity and magnetic permeability must comply with the

Chapter 2 deals with electromagnetic propagation in various dispersive media that is of interest for its technological applications. The electromagnetic propagation in this case has different speeds for each wave excitation frequency, and there will also be attenuation to the amplitude of the electric and magnetic fields in the dispersive media, which will increase with frequency. The phenomena of plasmonic dispersion, dispersion in conductive media, modal dispersion, chromatic dispersion, and

Chapter 3 deals with the electrical properties of solids such as electrical permittivity

properties of transmission lines with losses, and their associated parameters such as characteristic impedance and propagation constant, are explained and speed of propagation, where the time domain and frequency methods are used, and finally experimental results are presented for the case of dry sand. It is observed that there

Thermoelectric properties of the Chalcogenide System are presented in Chapter 4.

The first part explains the Seebeck, Peltier thermoelectric phenomena, electrical conductivity and power factor. Electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient measurements are explained. Experimental results of the ternary and quaternary Tellurium Telluride chalcogenides, Tl10-x-yAxByTe6 nanoparticles, with different

and electrical conductivity, in the first part the fundamental concepts, the

are interesting applications to agriculture, geophysics, and engineering.

Kramers-Kronig equations, which obey the physical principle of causality.

field, voltage, power, energy, and heat are also covered.

and can be read independently.

intramodal dispersion are explained.
