Electromag netic Scattering and Material Characterization -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 MICROSCOPIC-MACROSCOPIC TRANSFORMATION -- 1.2 METAMATERIALS -- 1.3 FREE-SPACE MEASUREMENTS AND FOCUSING -- 1.4 WAVEGUIDE MEASUREMENTS -- 1.5 RESONATOR MEASUREMENTS -- 1.6 RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) MEASUREMENTS -- 1.7 MEASUREMENT ACCURACY AND EXTRACTION SENSITIVITY -- References -- Chapter 2 Fundamentals -- 2.1 SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- 2.1.1 Sturm-Liouville Eigenvalue Problems -- 2.1.2 Sin-Series and Cos-Series Expansions -- 2.1.3 Fourier Series and Fourier Transform -- 2.1.4 Fourier-Bessel Series and Hankel Transform -- 2.1.5 Multidimensional Fourier Transform -- 2.2 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS IN FREE SPACE -- 2.2.1 Time Domain -- 2.2.2 Frequency Domain and Auxiliary Potentials -- 2.2.3 Spectral Domain and Plane Waves -- 2.3 CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS -- 2.3.1 Time Domain and Transient and Steady-State Constitutive Relations -- References -- Chapter 3 Propagation in Homogeneous Media -- 3.1 SOURCE-FREE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA -- 3.2 PLANE WAVES AND POLARIZATION -- 3.2.1 Plane Waves -- 3.2.2 Polarization -- 3.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN MATERIAL LAYERS -- 3.3.1 Infinitely Extended Material Slabs -- 3.3.2 Cylindrical Shells -- 3.3.3 Spherical Shells -- 3.4 ANTENNAS AND ANTENNA ARRAYS -- 3.4.1 Infinitesimally Short Current Element (Electric Point Dipole) -- 3.4.2 Infinitesimal Current Loop (Magnetic Point Dipole) -- 3.4.3 Basic Antenna Characteristics -- 3.4.4 Antenna Arrays -- 3.5 DISPERSION -- 3.6 THE CONCEPT OF FOCUSING -- 3.7 FOCUSING USING A LINEAR ANTENNA ARRAY -- References -- Chapter 4 Guided Wave Propagation -- 4.1 GUIDED WAVES IN HOMOGENEOUSLY FILLED WAVEGUIDES -- 4.1.1 TEM Modes -- 4.1.2 TE and TM Modes -- 4.2 EIGENMODES OF INHOMOGENEOUSLY FILLED WAVEGUIDES -- 4.2.1 Coupled-Mode Formulation.

4.2.2 Modal Orthogonality and Complex Modes -- 4.3 WAVEGUIDES WITH LOSSY BOUNDARIES -- 4.4 EXCITATION OF WAVEGUIDES -- 4.4.1 Coupled-Mode Formulation -- 4.4.2 Excitation Sources with a Finite Axial Extent -- 4.5 WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS -- 4.5.1 Junction Between Two Empty Waveguides with Different Cross-Sections -- 4.5.2 Junction Between Empty and Inhomogeneously Filled Waveguides Sharing theSame Cross-Section -- References -- Chapter 5 Electromagnetic Cavity Resonators -- 5.1 CONSTRUCTION OF COMPLETE SETS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL VECTOR FUNCTIONS -- 5.1.1 Divergenceless Eigenmodes -- 5.1.2 Irrotational Eigenmodes -- 5.2 RESONANCE MODES IN HOMOGENEOUSLY FILLED CAVITIES -- 5.3 RESONANCE MODES IN INHOMOGENEOUSLY FILLED CAVITIES -- 5.3.1 Coupled-Mode Formulation -- 5.3.2 Modal Orthogonality and Stored Energies -- 5.4 CAVITY RESONATORS WITH LOSSY BOUNDARIES -- 5.5 EXCITATION OF CAVITY RESONATORS -- 5.5.1 Coupled-Mode Formulation -- 5.5.2 Source-Free Fields -- 5.6 APERTURE COUPLING OF CAVITY RESONATORS -- References -- Chapter 6 Free-Space Measurements-Planar Interfaces -- 6.1 INCIDENT, SCATTERED, AND TOTAL FIELDS -- 6.2 MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION -- 6.3 PLANE-WAVE DECOMPOSITION OF THE FAR FIELD OF ILLUMINATING ANTENNAS -- 6.3.1 Spatially Dependent Field -- 6.3.2 βt -Dependent Field -- 6.3.3 Plane-Wave Interpretation -- 6.3.4 Short- and Open-Circuited Half Spaces -- 6.4 MATERIAL HALF SPACES (REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS ONLY) -- 6.4.1 Matching the βt -Dependent Fields -- 6.4.2 The Spatially Dependent Free-Space Field -- 6.4.3 Measurement Procedure -- 6.5 TRANSVERSALLY DIRECTED SHORT CURRENT ELEMENT AS A RADIATING ANTENNA -- 6.6 SHORT-CIRCUITED MATERIAL SLABS (REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS ONLY) -- 6.6.1 Matching the βt -Dependent Fields -- 6.6.2 The Spatially Dependent Free-Space Field -- 6.6.3 Measurement Procedure.

6.7 MATERIAL SLABS (BOTH REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS) -- 6.7.1 Matching the βt -Dependent Fields -- 6.7.2 The Spatially Dependent Free-Space Fields -- 6.7.3 Measurement Procedure -- References -- Chapter 7 Free-Space Measurements-Cylindrical andSpherical Interfaces -- 7.1 MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION FOR CYLINDRICAL INTERFACES -- 7.2 CYLINDRICAL-HARMONICS EXPANSION OF THE FAR FIELD OFILLUMINATING ANTENNAS -- 7.2.1 Spatially Dependent Field -- 7.2.2 Spectral ( zb -Dependent) Field -- 7.3 MEASUREMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS OF MATERIALCYLINDERS -- 7.3.1 The Spectral ( zb -Dependent) Cylindrical Harmonics -- 7.3.2 The Spatial (z-Dependent) Cylindrical Harmonics -- 7.3.3 Measurement Procedure -- 7.4 MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION FOR SPHERICAL INTERFACES -- 7.5 SPHERICAL-SURFACE-HARMONICS EXPANSION OF THE FAR FIELD OF ILLUMINATING ANTENNAS -- 7.5.1 Incident Field in Local Coordinates -- 7.5.2 Radial Potentials of the Incident Field -- 7.6 MEASUREMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS OF MATERIAL SPHERES -- 7.6.1 Matching the Spherical Surface Harmonics -- 7.6.2 Measurement Procedure -- References -- About the Author -- Index.