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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780894603321

Autore

Mackay Tom G

Titolo

Electromagnetic anisotropy and bianisotropy [[electronic resource] ] : a field guide / / Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2010

ISBN

1-282-76170-6

9786612761706

1-61344-048-0

981-4289-62-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 213 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LakhtakiaA <1957-> (Akhlesh)

Disciplina

537

Soggetti

Electromagnetic fields - Mathematics

Composite materials

Electromagnetism

Anisotropy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Maxwell postulates and constitutive relations -- Linear mediums -- Spacetime symmetries and constitutive dyadics -- Planewave propagation -- Dyadic Green functions -- Homogenization  -- Nonlinear mediums.

Sommario/riassunto

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