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.

"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;

• Ferroelectric Materials and Their Properties; Lead Zirconate Titanate Ferroelectric Ceramics; Historical Perspectives of Ferroelectric Shock Depolarization Studies; Physical Principles of Shock Wave Ferroelectric Generators; Design of Miniature Explosive Ferroelectric Generators; Mechanisms of Transverse Shock Depolarization of PZT 95/5 and PZT 52/48; High-Current Generation by Shock-Compressed Ferroelectric Ceramics; Shock Depolarization of Ferroelectrics in High-Voltage Mode; Ultrahigh-Voltage Generation by Shock-Compressed Ferroelectrics; PZT 95/5 Films: Depolarization and High-Current Generation under Transverse and Longitudinal Shock Compression; Ultrahigh Energy Density Harvested from Shock-Compressed Domain-Engineered Relaxor Ferroelectric Single Crystals; Mechanism of Complete Stress-Induced Depolarization of Relaxor Ferroelectric Single Crystals without Transition through a Non-Polar Phase; Transversely Shock-Compressed Ferroelectrics: Electric Charge and Energy Transfer into Capacitive Load; Operation of Longitudinally Shock-Compressed Ferroelectrics with Resistive Loads; Theoretical Treatment of Explosive Ferroelectric Generators; Shock-Compressed Ferroelectrics Combined with Power-Conditioning Stage; Case Studies;