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Practical Papers, Articles
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Bob Olsen, Associate Editor |
| In this issue you will find three practical papers that should be of
interest to the EMC community. The first is a summary by Michael Windler of the
discussions from the Zurich workshop entitled, "EMC Measurements Including Those
Above 1 GHz and Associated Uncertainties." You will find it featured on the cover of
this issue. Those of you who are now required to make such high frequency measurements
will be interested in these discussions. The second paper was written by Eisuke Hanada and
several others and is at the opposite end of the frequency spectrum. It is about the
potential effect on sensitive medical equipment of high DC magnetic fields due to residual
magnetization in the structural steel of a hospital. This is a source of interference that
could easily be overlooked. The third, by Frank Leferink and Wim van Etten, was originally
presented at the EMC Symposium in Brugge and was deemed to be of sufficient interest to
publish in this Newsletter. It concerns the design of reverberation chambers that have
increased field homogeneity and field strength, the "Holy Grail" of EMC chamber
design. The purpose of this section is to disseminate practical information to the EMC community. In some cases the material is entirely original. In others, the material is not new but has been made either more understandable or accessible to the community. In others, the material has been previously presented at a conference but has been deemed especially worthy of wider dissemination. Readers wishing to share such information with colleagues in the EMC community are encouraged to submit papers or application notes for this section of the Newsletter. See newsletter staff page for my e-mail, FAX and real mail address. While all material will be reviewed prior to acceptance, the criteria are different from those of The Transactions on EMC papers. Specifically, while it is not necessary that the paper be archival, it is necessary that the paper be useful and of interest to readers of the EMC Society Newsletter. Comments from readers concerning these papers are welcome, either as a letter (or e-mail) to the Associate Editor or directly to the authors. |