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FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications
Author(s): Yang Hao (Author), Raj Mittra (Author)
- Publisher: Artech House
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 1596931604
- ISBN-13: 9781596931602
Book Description
Artificial metamaterials have made a huge splash in antenna, microwave, and optics engineering thanks to their extraordinary electromagnetic properties. And now, modeling their unique characteristics and behaviors in electromagnetic systems just got easier. This one-stop resource gives engineers powerful finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) techniques for modeling metamaterials, complete with applications and time-saving sample FDTD scripts. This comprehensive volume provides how-to guidance in a wide range of areas that are critical to antenna design, from computing dispersion diagrams and verifying left-handedness…to characterizing the interface of metamaterial slabs. The book also reviews electromagnetic metamaterial basics and FDTD essentials, providing the foundation needed to fully understand the material.
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About the Author
Yang Hao is Professor of Antennas and Electromagnetics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Over the years, he has developed several fully-integrated antenna solutions based on novel artificial materials to reduce mutual RF interference, weight, cost and system complexity for security, aerospace and healthcare applications. He coined the term Body-centric wireless communications ; an area refers to networking among wearable and implantable wireless sensors on the human body. He contributed to the industrial development of wireless sensors for healthcare monitoring as well as wearable and textile antennas. He currently leads several major developments in microwave metamaterials, body-centric wireless communications and is also a member of management team at the Cambridge Graphene Centre. Professor Hao has published 2 books, 7 book chapters and more than 120 journal papers. From 2010-2012, he served as a Vice Chairman for the Professional Network on Antenna and Propagations, IET and is also a board member of European School of Antennas, European Antenna Centre of Excellence. He is an associate editor for both IEEE TAP and AWPL. In 2013, Professor Hao received the prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society, UK. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET and ERA Foundation.
