The book focuses on the geological characteristics, beach processes, coastal and lacustrine sedimentary archives, and the role of mangroves in controlling coastal sedimentation.

This book aims to cover the challenges and opportunities in desalination processes.

RF and Microwave Microelectronics Packaging presents the latest developments in packaging for high-frequency electronics. It will appeal to practicing engineers in the electronic packaging and high-frequency electronics fields and to academic researchers interested in understanding leading issues in the commercial sector. It covers the latest developments in thermal management, electrical/RF/thermal-mechanical designs and simulations, packaging and processing methods as well as other RF/MW packaging-related fields.

While technology evolution is beneficial for digital circuits, it can cause performance limitations for analog circuits. To benefit from the technology evolution for analog circuits as well, the smart concept aims at improving the analog performance by using digital intelligence. In Smart AD and DA Conversion, the smart concept is applied to AD and DA converters by using on-chip intelligence to detect analog imperfections and to correct for them.

Switched Time-Delay Systems presents an introductory, yet comprehensive, treatment of switched time-delay systems by jointly combining two fundamental attributes: the system dynamics possesses an inherent time-delay and the system operational mode undergoes switching among different modes. While each attribute has been examined individually in several texts, the integration of both attributes is quite unique and deserves special consideration.