| Preface |
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| 1 Broadband Anisotropic Metamaterials for Antenna Applications |
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1.2 MM Coatings for Monopole Bandwidth Extension |
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1.2.1 Monopole with Anisotropic Material Coating |
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1.2.2 Unit Cell Design and Full-wave Simulations |
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1.2.3 Experimental Results |
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1.3 Anisotropic MM Lenses for Directive Radiation |
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1.3.1 Low-Profile AZIM Coating for Slot Antenna |
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1.3.1.1 Dispersion of grounded AZIM slab |
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1.3.1.2 Infinite TMz radiating source with realistic AZIM coating |
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1.3.1.3 High-gain SIW-fed slot antenna with realistic AZIM coating |
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1.3.2 Anisotropic MM Lens for Crossed- Dipole Antenna |
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1.3.2.1 Configuration and unit cell design |
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1.3.2.2 Numerical and experimental results |
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1.3.3 Anisotropic MM Multibeam Antenna Lens |
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1.3.3.1 Two-dimensional/Three-dimensional AZIM lens concept and numerical results |
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1.3.3.2 Realistic AZIM lens for monopole antenna |
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1.4 AZIM Lens for Reconfigurable Beam Steering |
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| 2 Broadband Low-loss Metamaterial-Enabled Horn Antennas |
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2.1.1 Horn Antennas as Reflector Feeds |
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2.1.2 Soft and Hard Horn Antennas |
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2.1.3 Metamaterial Horn Antennas |
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2.2 Design and Modeling of Metamaterial Implementations for Soft and Hard Surfaces |
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2.2.1 Plane Wave Model of Metasurfaces |
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2.2.2 Equivalent Homogeneous Metamaterial Model |
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2.2.3 Design Goals and Optimization Methods |
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2.3 Metasurface Design Examples |
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2.3.2 Printed-Patch Balanced Hybrid Metasurface |
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2.3.3 Wire-Grid Metasurface |
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2.4 Octave-Bandwidth Single-Polarization Horn Antenna with Negligible Loss |
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2.4.1 Application Background |
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2.4.2 Modeling and Simulation |
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2.4.3 Prototype and Measurements |
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2.5 Dual-Polarization Ku-Band Metamaterial Horn |
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2.5.1 Application Background |
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2.5.2 Modeling and Simulation |
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2.5.3 Prototype and Measurements |
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2.6 Improved-Performance Horn Enabled by Inhomogeneous Metasurfaces |
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2.6.1 Motivation and Rationale |
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2.6.2 Effects of Parameter Variations on Metasurface Characteristics |
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2.6.3 Metasurfaces in Cylindrical Waveguides |
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2.6.4 Comparison of Metahorns with Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Metasurfaces |
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2.7 Summary and Conclusions |
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| 3 Realization of Slow Wave Phenomena Using Coupled Transmission Lines and Their Application to Antennas and Vacuum Electronics |
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3.2.1 Periodic Structures |
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3.2.2 Second-Order Dispersion |
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3.2.3 Coupled Transmission Line Analysis |
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3.2.3.2 Coupling of modes |
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3.2.4 Higher-Order Dispersion Engineering |
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3.2.4.1 Graphical analysis |
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3.2.4.2 Realizations of higher-order dispersion |
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3.3 Applications of Slow Waves |
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3.3.1 Traveling Wave Tubes |
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3.3.2 Antenna Miniaturization, Directivity, and Bandwidth Improvement |
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| 4 Design Synthesis of Multiband and Broadband Gap Electromagnetic Metasurfaces |
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4.2 Capacitively Loaded Mushroom-Type EBG |
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4.2.2 Circuit Representation of Capacitively Loaded Mushroom-Type EBG |
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4.2.4 Experimental Verification |
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4.2.6 Omnidirectional EBG Metasurface |
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4.3 Tunable Absorbers Based on Mushroom-Type Metasurfaces |
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4.3.1 Narrowband Reconfigurable Absorber |
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4.3.3 Broadband Tunable Absorber |
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| 5 Temporal and Spatial Dispersion Engineering Using Metamaterial Concepts and Structures |
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5.2 Radio-Analog Signal Processing |
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5.3 Spatial Phasers for Real-Time Spectrum Analysis |
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5.3.1 Diffraction Gratings |
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5.3.2 Leaky-Wave Antennas |
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5.3.3 Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Lines |
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5.4 LWA-Based Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers |
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5.4.1 One-Dimensional Real Time Spectrum Analyzer |
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5.4.2 RTSA Features and Time-Frequency Resolution Tradeoff |
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5.4.3 Spatio-Temporal 2D RTSA |
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5.5 Metasurface-Based Spatial 2D RTSA |
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5.5.1 Conventional 2D Spectral Decomposition |
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5.5.2 Metasurface Transmittance |
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| 6 Broadband Performance of Lenses Designed with Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics |
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6.2 Mathematics of Transformation Optics |
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6.2.2 Transformation Optics |
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6.2.3 Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics |
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6.3 Examples of qTO-Derived Lenses Inspired by Classical Designs |
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6.3.1 Broadband Wide-Angle Lenses Derived from Refractive Lenses |
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6.3.2 Broadband Wide-Angle Lenses Derived from Diffractive Lenses |
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6.3.3 Broadband Directive Multibeam Lens Antennas |
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239 | (8) |
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6.3.4 Broadband qTO-Derived Anti-Reflective Coatings |
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6.4 Wave front Matching Method as an Alternative to qTO |
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6.5 Dispersion Correction in qTO-Enabled GRIN Lenses |
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6.5.1 Geometrical-Optics Inspired Solution |
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6.5.1.3 Radial-axial GRIN |
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6.5.1.4 Geometrical trade-offs |
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6.5.2 Transformation-Optics Inspired Solution |
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| 7 Broadband Chirality in Twisted Metamaterials |
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7.2 Modal Solution to Twisted Metamaterials |
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7.2.1 Construction of the Eigenvalue Problem |
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7.2.2 A Twisted Metamaterial with Perfectly Conducting Inclusions |
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7.2.3 Effect of the Twist Angle on the Stopband |
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7.3 Supercell and Periodic Structures |
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7.3.1 Comparison with Full-Wave Simulations |
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7.5 Broadband Polarizer Design |
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| 8 Broadband Optical Metasurfaces and Metamaterials |
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8.2 Broadband Dispersion-Engineered Optical Metamaterials |
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8.2.1 Introduction to Dispersion Engineering |
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8.2.2 Broadband Plasmonic Metamaterial Filters with Passive Beam Steering |
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8.3 Broadband Metamaterial Absorbers for the Infrared |
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8.3.1 Introduction to Metamaterial Absorbers |
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8.3.2 GA Optimization of Metamaterial Absorbers |
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8.3.3 Super-Octave Metamaterial Absorbers for the Infrared |
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8.3.4 Choice of Metals in Broadband Absorbers |
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8.3.5 Multi-Octave Metamaterial Absorbers for the Infrared |
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8.4 Broadband Optical Metasurfaces |
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8.4.1 Introduction to Metasurfaces |
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8.4.2 Broadband Optical Metasurface-Based Waveplates |
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8.4.3 Broadband Optical Light Steering with Metasurfaces |
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8.4.4 Broadband Metasurface-Based Planar Microlenses |
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