The subject of “electronic composites” is both old and new. Electromagnetic properties (particularly dielectric constant and electric conductivity) of electronic composites have been studied extensively since the time of James Maxwell in the nineteenth century, while electronic composites are key materials for microelectronics that today include computer packages, actuators, sensors and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) and BioMEMS.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with an introductory knowledge of various models that can relate the parameters of nanostructure and/or microstructure of the constituent materials to the overall properties of the electronic composites. The readers that the author wishes to reach are graduate students and engineers who are interested in and/or involved in designing microelectronic packages, actuators, sensors, and MEMS/NEMS/BioMEMS. To determine the optimum micro- and nanostructure of electronic composites, a knowledge of the modeling of electronic composites necessarily precedes processing of the composites. This book provides a summary of such modeling. The contents of this book are introductory in early chapters (1–3) and more comprehensive in later chapters (4–8). To help readers who want in-depth knowledge, the book contains detailed appendices and a long list of references.

The author wrote a paper on “Micromechanics modeling of electronic composites” (Taya, 1995) and has been teaching “Electronic composites” as a graduate course at the University of Washington since 1998; the contents of the book originate from his lecture notes.