'This book would appeal to those who are interested in pulse power technology and pulse power generation. The fascinating ability to be able to achieve such incredible power levels with such compact devices is astonishing and could open up many new applications using the methods described in this well-written book, that is loaded with a wealth of experimental data, technical background on ferroelectric materials, high explosives, references, and many design ideas for making compact FEG's. IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine Explosive Ferroelectric Generators: From Physical Principles to Engineering is an exciting new book that takes the readers inside the world of explosive ferroelectric generators guided by international expert, Dr Sergey I Shkuratov. It acquaints the reader with the principles of operation of ferroelectric generators and provides details on how to design, build and test the devices which are the most developed and the most near-term for practical applications. Containing a considerable amount of experimental data that has been obtained by the author and his team over a period of 20 years, this is the first book that provides key information on theory, performance and applications of ferroelectric generators. It is a fabulous reference for electrical and electronic engineers working with pulsed power systems, researchers, professors, postgraduate, graduate and undergraduate students

Sergey I Shkuratov is currently a Chief Scientist with Loki Incorporated, Norwood, Missouri, USA. He received an MSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Tomsk Institute of Automatic Control Systems and Radioelectronics in 1979, and a PhD in Applied Physics from the Institute of High Current Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia, in 1987. From 1987 to 1998 he was with the Institute of Electrophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. From 1998 to 2003 he was an Associate Research Professor with Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Since 2004, he has been a Chief Scientist with Loki Inc. He has published in the fields of explosive pulsed power science and technology, the physics of ferroelectrics, the physics of ferromagnetism, and shock wave physics. Dr Shkuratov was a recipient of the Paul A Chatterton Young Investigator Award in 1994, the US Small Business Administration's Tibbetts Award for achievements in Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) in 2006, and the Army SBIR Achievement Award in 2008. His recent book, Explosive Pulsed Power (co-authored with Larry Altgilbers, Jason Baird, Bruce Freeman, and Christopher Lynch in 2011), is in print.