Waves in Metamaterials

by Laszlo Solymar, Ekaterina Shamonina

Overview

Metamaterials is a young subject born in the 21st century. It is concerned with artificial materials which can have electrical and magnetic properties difficult or impossible to find in nature. The building blocks in most cases are resonant elements much smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of research in this field at a level that should appeal to final year undergraduates in physics or in electrical and electronic engineering. The mathematics is kept at a minimum; the aim is to explain the physics in simple terms and enumerate the major advances. It can be profitably read by graduate and post-graduate students in order to find out what has been done in the field outside their speciality, and by experts who may gain new insight about the inter-relationship of the physical phenomena involved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198705017
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/24/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Laszlo Solymar, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London

Laszlo Solymar was born in 1930 in Budapest. He is Emeritus Professor of Applied Electromagnetism at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. He graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in 1952 and received the equivalent of a Ph.D in 1956 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1956 he settled in England where he worked first in industry and later at the University of Oxford. He did research on antennas, microwaves, superconductors, holographic gratings, photorefractive materials, and metamaterials. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris, Copenhagen, Osnabrück, Berlin, Madrid and Budapest. He published 8 books and over 250 papers. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1995. He received the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1992.

Ekaterina Shamonina, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Ekaterina Shamonina was born in 1970 in Tver, Russia. She is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. She graduated in 1993 in Physics at the Moscow State University and received her doctorate in 1998 from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. She was a visiting scientist at the University of Campinas, Brazil in 1996 and 1998. In 2000 she was awarded the 7-year Emmy Noether Fellowship from the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). She spent the first leg of the fellowship, 2000-2002 at the University of Oxford. After further six months at Imperial College, London she returned to the University of Osnabrück where she built up a research group working on Metamaterials. She completed her habilitation in Theoretical Physics in 2006, was appointed a Professor in Advanced Optical Technologies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg from 2008 to 2011 and a Leverhulme Reader in Metamaterials at Imperial College London from 2011 to 2013. Her main research areas apart from metamaterials have been amorphous semiconductors, photorefractive materials, antennas and plasmonics. She published over 80 research papers. She was awarded the Hertha-Spooner Prize of the German Physical Society in 2006.

Table of Contents

1. Basic concepts and basic equations2. A bird's-eye view of metamaterials3. Plasmon-polaritons4. Small resonators5. Subwavelength imaging6. Phenomena in waveguides7. Magnetoinductive waves I8. Magnetoinductive waves II9. Seven topics in search of a chapter10. A historical reviewAppendix A: AcronymsAppendix B: Field at the centre of a cubical lattice of identical dipolesAppendix C: Derivation of material parameters from reflection and transmission coefficientsAppendix D: How does surface charge appear in the boundary conditions? Appendix E: The Brewster waveAppendix F: The electrostatic limitAppendix G: Alternative derivation of the dispersion equation for SPPs for a dielectric-metal-dielectric structure: presence of a surface chargeAppendix H: Electric dipole moment induced by a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the SRRAppendix I: Average dielectric constants of a multilayer structureAppendix J: Derivation of mutual inductance between two magnetic dipoles in the presence of retardation

Editorial Reviews

"A book of good style and readability in an emerging field in electromagnetism that can be made accessible to undergraduate students." —Ricardo Marqués, University of Sevilla

"Certainly the book I would recommend to my students who are entering this burgeoning research field. The metamaterials community is growing, and I am sure that this will become a popular book with a considerable life span." —Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton

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