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About the Authors

Julian W. Gardner is the Professor of Electronic Engineering at Warwick University,
Coventry, UK. He has a B.Sc. in Physics (1979) from Birmingham University, a Ph.D.
in Physical Electronics (1983) from Cambridge University, and a D.Sc. in Electronic
Engineering (1997) from Warwick University. He has more than 15 years of experience
in sensor engineering, first in industry and then in academia, in which he specialises in
the development of microsensors and, in collaboration with the Southampton University,
electronic nose instrumentation. Professor Gardner is currently a Fellow of the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (UK) and member of its professional network on sensors. He
has authored more than 250 technical papers and 5 books; the textbook Microsensors:
Principles and Applications was first published by Wiley in 1994 and has enjoyed some
measure of success, now being in its fourth reprint.
Vijay K. Varadan is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the
Pennsylvania State University, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science
from the Northwestern University in 1974. He has a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering
(1964) from the University of Madras, India and an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics
(1969) from the Pennsylvania State University. After serving on the faculty of Cornell
University and Ohio State University, he joined the Pennsylvania State University in
1983, where he is currently Alumni Distinguished Professor of Engineering science,
Mechanics, and Electrical Engineering. He is involved in all aspects of wave-material
interaction, optoelectronics, microelectronics, photonics, microelectromechanical systems
(MEMS): nanoscience and technology, carbon nanotubes, microstereolithography smart
materials and structures; sonar, radar, microwave, and optically absorbing composite
media; EMI, RFI, EMP, and EMF shielding materials; piezoelectric, chiral, ferrite,
and polymer composites and conducting polymers; and UV conformal coatings, tunable
ceramics materials and substrates, and electronically steerable antennas. He is the Editor of
the Journal of Wave-Material Interaction and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Smart
Materials and Structures published by the Institute of Physics, UK. He has authored more
than 400 technical papers and six books. He has eight patents pertinent to conducting
polymers, smart structures and smart antennas, and phase shifters.
Osama O. Awadelkarim is a Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the
Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Awadelkarim received a B.Sc. Degree in Physics from
the University of Khartoum in Sudan in 1977 and a Ph.D. degree from Reading University
in the United Kingdom in 1982. He taught courses in soild-state device physics, micro-
electronics, material science, MEMS/Smart structures, and mechanics. Prior to joining