UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING


THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR READING LIST FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2007/08

last modified: 17 September 2007

List of courses

  • ELEC3001 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS II
  • ELEC3002 POWER ELECTRONICS
  • ELEC3003 CONTROL SYSTEMS I
  • ELEC3005 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
  • ELEC3006 OPTOELECTRONICS II
  • ELEC3009 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS
  • ELEC3012 PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING
  • ELEC3016 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS III
  • ELEC3017 CORPORATE FINANCE
  • ELEC3027 ADVANCED DIGITAL DESIGN
  • ELEC3028 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES AND DATA NETWORKS
  • ELEC3029 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ELEC3030 NUMERICAL METHODS
  • ELEC4001/G54 ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
  • ELEC4002/G60 OPTICAL DETECTORS AND RECEIVERS
  • ELEC4004 RADAR SYSTEMS
  • ELEC4005/G62 OPTICAL SOURCES FOR COMMUNICATIONS
  • ELEC4006/G61 OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND NETWORKS
  • ELEC4007/G65 RF CIRCUITS AND SUB-SYSTEMS
  • ELEC4008/G66 RF DEVICES
  • ELEC4009/G67 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

    ELEC3001 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS II      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    General
    I. Otung Communications Engineering Principles Palgrave 2001 ENGNG TE5 OTU
    A. Valdar Understanding Telecommunications Networks IEE Press, 2006 ENGNG TE5 VAL
    Practical Wireless Systems
    H. Taub and D.L. Shilling Information, Transmission, Modulation and Noise McGraw Hill .
    Digital Transmission
    J.G. Prokakis and M. Salehi Communications Systems Engineering Pearson Education .
    B.P. Lathi Modern Digital and Analog Communications Systems Oxford University Press .
    I.A. Glover and P.M. Grant Digital Communications Prentice Hall .
    A.B. Carlson, P.B. Crilly and J.C. Rutledge Communications Systems McGraw Hill .
    J. Kurzweil An Introduction to Digital Communications John Wiley .
    Optical Communication Systems
    J. Wilon and J.F.B. Hawkes Optoelectronics Prentice Hall .
    J. Gowar Optical Comm. Systems Prentice Hall 1984 ENGNG TE52 GOW (2 copies)
    J. Senior Optical Fiber Communications Prentice Hall 1992 ENGNG TE52 SEN
    D.K. Mynbaev and L.L. Scheiner Fiber-Optic Communications Technology Prentice Hall 2001 .
    R. Ramaswami and K. Sivarajan Optical Networks, a practical perspective Morgan Kaufmann Publ.

    ELEC3002 POWER ELECTRONICS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    C.W. Lander Power Electronics, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill 1987 ENGNG TE50 LAN
    J.M.D. Murphy Thyristor Control of AC Motors Pergamon 1990 ENGNG TC23 MUR
    B.M. Bird, K.G. King An Introduction to Power Electronics Wiley 1993 ENGNG TE 50 BIR
    S.M. Sze Physics of Semiconductor Devices 2nd ed Wiley 1981 ENGNG T 53 SZE (6 copies)
    B.W. Williams Power Electronics Devices Drivers & Applications (1&2 ed.) Macmillan 1987, 1993 ENGNG TE50 SOL (3 copies)
    D.A. Bradley Power Electronics 2nd. ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold 1994 ENG TE50 BRA
    J.G. Kassakian, M.F. Schlecht & G.C. Verghese Principles of Power Electronics Addison Wesley .

    ELEC3003 CONTROL SYSTEMS I      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    Phillips CL & Harbor RD Feedback Control Systems Prentice Hall 2000

    ELEC3005 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    E.C. Ifeachor & B.W. Jervis Digital Signal Processing, a practical approach, (2nd ed.) . .
    B. Mulgrew, P. Grant and J. Thompson Digital Signal Processing, concepts and applications . .
    J. Mclellan, R. Schafer and M. Yoder Signal Processing First . .
    L. Rabiner and B. Gold Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing . .

    ELEC3006 OPTOELECTRONICS II      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    J. Wilson, J.F.B. Hawkes Optoelectronics 2nd ed. Prentice Hall 1989 ENGNG TE52 WIL (3 copies)
    J. Gowar Optical Communication Systems 2nd. ed. Prentice Hall 1993 ENGNG TE52 GOW
    K. Petermann Lasers Diode Modulation and Noise Reidel KTC Scientific Publications ENGNG TE55 PET
    I.D. PET
    A. Yariv Quantum Electronics 3rd ed Wiley 1988 ENGNG TE50 YAR
    M. Karim Electro-optical Devices & Systems PWS Kent 1990 ENGNG TE52 KAR (2 copies)
    E. Hecht Optics 2nd ed. Addison Wesley 1987 PHYSICS L5 HEL
    J. Senior Optical Fiber Communications Principles and Practice Prentice Hall 1992 ENGNG TE52 SEN (3 copies)
    Bhattacharya Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices Prentice Hall .
    P.J. Collings and M. Hird Introduction to liquid crystals chemistry and physics . CHEMISTRY D215 COL
    V.G. Chigrinov Liquid crystal devices, physics and applications . ENGINEERING TE 52 CHI
    S. Chandrasekhar Liquid Crystals 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press 1992 CHEMISTRY D215 CHA
    L.M. Blinov Electro-optical and Magneto-optical Properties of liquid crystals . ENGINEERING TE52 BLI

    ELEC3009 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    Course delivered by Medical Physics. See details in: here

    ELEC3012 PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    J.G. Webster (ed.) Medical Instrumentation Application and Design Houghton Mifflin 1992 ENGNG TE85 WEB
    L.A. Geddes, L.E. Baker Principles of Applied Biomedical Instrumentation Wiley 1989 ENGNG TE85 GED
    R.S.C. Cobbold Transducers for Biomedical Instruments IOP Publishing Bristol .
    B.H. Brown, R.H. Smallwood, D.C. Barber, P.V. Lawford and D.R. Hose (eds) Medical Physics and Bioengineering Wiley 1974 MIDDX QT34 COB

    ELEC3016 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS III      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    P.V. Brennan Phase-Locked Loops: Principles & Practice MacMillan 1996 ENGNG TE 55 BRE (3 copies)
    F.M. Gardner Phaselock Techniques 2nd ed. Wiley 1979 ENGNG TE 55 GAR (2 copies)
    U.L. Rohde Digital PLL Frequency Synthesisers Prentice Hall 1983 .
    B. Razavi Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits McGraw Hill 2001 ENGNG TE55 RAZ
    P.E. Allen and D.R. Holberg CMOS Analog Circuit Design OUP 2002 ENGNG TE55 ALL
    P.R. Gray and R.G. Meyer Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 3rd ed. Wiley 1993 ENGNG TE60 GRA

    ELEC3017 CORPORATE FINANCE      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    Frank Wood Business Accounting (Vols 1 & 2), 4th, 5th and 6th ed. Pitman 1986, 1989, 1993 ENGNG A20 WOO

    ELEC3027 ADVANCED DIGITAL DESIGN      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
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    ELEC3028 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES AND DATA NETWORKS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
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    ELEC3029 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND NANOTECHNOLOGY      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    C.V. Chang & F. Kai GaAs High Speed Devices Wiley 1994 ENGNG T 53 CHA
    M.C. Petty, M.R. Bryce & D. Bloor An introduction to Molecular Electronics Arnold 1995 ENGNG TE 51 PET
    S.M. Sze Semiconductor Sensors Wiley 1994 ENGNG T53 SZE
    S.M. Sze (ed.) VLSI technology 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill 1988 ENGNG T51 SZE (2 copies)

    ELEC3030 NUMERICAL METHODS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    L.V. Fausett Applied Numerical Analysis using MATLAB 2nd ed. Pearson/Prentice Hall 2008 .
    C.F. van Loan Introduction to Scientific Computing 2nd ed. Prentice Hall 2000 .
    B.M. Ayyub and R.H. McCuen Numerical methods for engineers Prentice Hall 1996 .
    W.W. Hager Applied numerical linear algebra Prentice Hall 1988 .
    G. Sewell The numerical solution of partial differential equations Academic Press 1988 .
    P.P. Silvester and R.L. Ferrari Finite elements for electrical engineers Cambridge University Press 1996 .

    ELEC4001/G54 ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    M.S. Smith Introduction to Antennas Macmillan 1988 ENGNG TE23 SMI
    N. Levanon Radar Principles Wiley 1988 ENGNG TE26 LEV
    S. Kingsley and S. Quegan Understanding Radar Systems McGraw-Hill 1992 ENGNG TE26 KIN
    M.I. Skolnik Radar Handbook Mc Graw Hill 1990 ENGNG TE26 SKO
    M.I. Skolnik Introduction to Radar Systems 2nd ed McGraw Hill 1980 ENGNG TE26 SKO (3 copies)
    S. Drabowitch, Papiernik, H. Griffiths, Encinas & B.L. Smith Modern Antennas IEEE/Chapman & Hall 1998 ENGNG TE 23 DR
    A.W. Rudge, K. Milne, A.D. Olver, P. Knight (eds) The Handbook of Antenna Design (2 vols.) Peter Peregrinus 1982/3 ENGNG TE23 RUD

    ELEC4002/G60 OPTICAL DETECTORS AND RECEIVERS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    See also books listed for course ELEC4005.

    ELEC4004 RADAR SYSTEMS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    M.I. Skolnik Introduction to Radar Systems 2nd ed McGraw Hill 1980 ENGNG TE26 SKO (3 copies)
    M.I. Skolnik (ed.) Radar Handbook Mc Graw Hill 1990 ENGNG TE26 SKO
    N. Levanon Radar Principles Wiley 1988 ENGNG TE26 LEV
    D.K. Barton Radars Artech House 1978 .
    S. Kingsley and S. Quegan Understanding Radar Systems McGraw-Hill 1992 ENGNG TE26 KIN
    F.E. Nathanson (ed.) Radar Design Principles (2nd ed.) McGraw-Hill 1991 .
    G.W. Stimson Introduction to Airborne Radar (2nd ed.) SciTech Publishing 1998 .
    P.M. Woodward Probability and Information Theory, with applications to Radar Pergamon Press 1953, Artech House 1980 .
    J.L. Eaves, and E.K. Reedy Principles of Modern Radar Chapman & Hall 1987 .

    ELEC4005/G62 OPTICAL SOURCES FOR COMMUNICATIONS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    J. Senior Optical Fibre Communications, Principles and Practice (2nd ed.) Prentice Hall, 1992 .
    G.P. Agrawal Fibre-Optic Communication Systems, (2nd ed) J. Wiley, 1992 .
    J. Gowar Optical Communication Systems Prentice Hall, 1983 .
    D.M. Spirit & M.J. O'Mahony High Capacity Optical Transmission John Wiley, 1995 .
    J. Pankove Optical Processes in Semiconductors Dover, 1971 .
    L. Solymar & D. Walsh Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials Oxford, 1993 .
    S.M. Sze Physics of Semiconductor Devices Wiley, 1981 .
    J. Singh Optoelectronics: An Introduction to Materials and Devices McGraw Hill 1996 .
    0. Svelto Principles of Lasers, (4th ed.) Plenum, 1998 .
    J. Hecht Understanding Fiber Optics Prentice Hall, 1999 .
    G.P. Agrawal and N.K. Dutta Semiconductor Lasers . .
    M.C. Amann and J. Buus Tunable Laser Diodes Artech House, 1998 .
    R. Syms and J. Cozens Optical Guided Waves and Devices McGraw Hill, 1992 .
    D.K. Mynbaev and L.L. Scheiner Fiber-Optic Communications Technology Prentice Hall, 2001 .
    A. Yariv Optical Electronics, (4th ed) Saunders College Publishing, 1991 .
    G. Einarsson Principles of Lightwave Communications John Wiley, 1996 .
    L. Kazovsky, S. Benedetto and A. Willner Optical Fiber Communication Systems Artech House, 1996 .
    R. Sabella and P. Lugli High Speed Optical Communications Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 .
    G. Keiser Optical Fiber Communications, (3rd ed.) McGraw Hill, 2000 .
    Additional Reading.
    E. Hecht & A. Zajac Optics Addison Wesley, 1976 .
    M. Abramowitz & I.A. Stegun Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs and Mathematical Tables Dover, 1972 .
    A. Papoulis Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes McGraw Hill, 1965 .
    S.E. Miller and A. Chynoweth Optical Fiber Telecommunications I Academic Publishers, 1979 .
    S.E. Miller and I.P. Kaminow Optical Fiber Telecommunications ll Academic Publishers 1988 .

    ELEC4006/G61 OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND NETWORKS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    See also books listed for course ELEC4005.

    ELEC4007/G65 RF CIRCUITS AND SUB-SYSTEMS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION
    I.D. Robertson & S. Lucyszen, (eds.) RFIC and MMIC Design and Technology IEE Press, 2001 .

    ELEC4008/G66 RF DEVICES      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION

    ELEC4009/G67 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS      

    AUTHOR/S TITLE PUBLISHER LIBRARY LOCATION