Electromagnetic Anisotropy and Bianisotropy - A Field Guide

✍ Scribed by Mackay, Tom G.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The topics of anisotropy and bianisotropy are fundamental to electromagnetics from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. These properties underpin a host of complex and exotic electromagnetic phenomenons in naturally occurring materials and in relativistic scenarios, as well as in artificially produced metamaterials. As a unique guide to this rapidly developing field, this book provides students and professionals with a unified presentation of key classic and recent results on the studies of constitutive relations, spacetime symmetries, planewave propagation, dyadic Green functions, and homogenization of composite materials. This book also offers an up-to-date extension to standard treatments of crystal optics with coverage on both linear and weakly nonlinear regimes.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Acronyms and Principal Symbols
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. The Maxwell Postulates and Constitutive Relations
2. Linear Mediums
3. Spacetime Symmetries and Constitutive Dyadics
4. Planewave Propagation
5. Dyadic Green Functions
6. Homogenization
7. Nonlinear Mediums
Appendix A: Dyadic Notation and Analysis
• Epilogue
Index
• About the Author