This book describes the most recent advances in electromagnetic theory, motivated and partly informed by developments in engineering science and nanotechnology. The collection of chapters provided in this edited book, authored by leading experts in the field, offers a bird’s eye view of recent progress in electromagnetic theory, spanning a wide range of topics of current interest, ranging from fundamental issues to applications.?
Introduction.-
1. Our Werner always brought us joy.-
2. Scalar
potentials and applications.-
3. A novel approach to electromagnetic
constitutive relations.-
4. On the anatomy of Voigt plane waves.-
5.
Electromagnetic radiation by finite-sized electric and magnetic dipoles
embedded in homogeneous uniaxial dielectric materials.-
6. Near-field
microwave imaging employing measured point-spread functions.-
7.
Electromagnetic wave propagation inside rectangular chirowaveguides using the
coupled mode method.-
8. On a Steklov spectrum in electromagnetics.-
9. Using
boundary conditions with the EwaldOseen extinction theorem.-
10. Spatial
sampling and interpolation techniques in computational electromagnetics and
beyond.-
11. Light-matter interaction at the sub-wavelength scale: Pathways
to design nanophotonic devices.-
12. Integrated photonics with near-zero
index materials.-
13. Correlated disorder in broadband dielectric
multilayered reflectors.-
14. Scattering from reconfigurable metasurfaces and
their applications.-
15. Specular reflection and transmission of
electromagnetic waves by disordered metasurfaces.-
16. Continuity of field
patterns for exceptional surface waves and exceptional compound waves.-
17.
Cavity modes and surface plasmon waves coupling on nanostructured surfaces
for enhanced sensing and energy applications.-
18. Analysis of diffraction
from all-dielectric gratings using entire-domain integralequation
techniques.-
19. Rigorous coupled-wave approach and transformation optics.-
20. Mind the gap between theory and experiment.-
21. Theoretical future
Vision 2030.
Tom G. Mackay is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Strathclyde. His university education was supported by the British Heart Foundation and The Carnegie Trust for The Universities of Scotland. He is Professor of Applied Electromagnetic Theory in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and also an adjunct professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. In 2006/07 he held a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Executive Support Research Fellowship and in 2009/2010 a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) and SPIEThe International Society for Optics and Photonics. His research interests are based on the electromagnetic theory of complex mediums, including homogenization and surface waves.
Akhlesh Lakhtakia is Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.Tech. (1979) and D.Sc. (2006) degrees in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, and his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics from its inception in 2007 through 2013. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK), Optical Society of America, SPIE--The International Society for Optics and Photonics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Royal Society of Arts. His current research interests relate to electromagnetic fields in complex mediums, sculptured thin films, surface multiplasmonics and electromagnetic surface waves, mimumes, multicontrollable metasurfaces, thin-film solar cells, forensic science, bioreplication, engineered biomimicry, and biologically inspired design for environment. He has co-edited three research volumes published by Springer.
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