Physics and Applications of Negative Refractive Index Materials (Hardcover, 1st)

Introduction
General historical perspective
The concept of metamaterials
Modeling the material response
Phase velocity and group velocity
Metamaterials and homogenization procedure

Metamaterials and Homogenization of Composites
The homogenization hypothesis
Limitations and consistency conditions
Forward problem
Inverse problems: retrieval and constitutive parameters
Homogenization from averaging the internal fields
Generalization to anisotropic and bianisotropic media

Designing Metamaterials with Negative Material Parameters
Negative dielectric materials
Metamaterials with negative magnetic permeability
Metamaterials with negative refractive index
Chiral metamaterials
Bianisotropic metamaterials
Active and nonlinear metamaterials

Negative Refraction and Photonic Bandgap Materials
Photonic crystals and bandgap materials
Band diagrams and iso-frequency contours
Negative refraction and flat lenses with photonic crystals
Negative refraction versus collimation or streaming

Media with e < 0 and μ < 0: Theory and Properties
Origins of negative refraction
Choice of the wave-vector and its consequences
Anisotropic and chiral media

Energy and Momentum in Negative Refractive Index Materials
Causality and energy density in frequency dispersive media
Electromagnetic energy in left-handed media
Momentum density, momentum flow, and transfer in media with negative material parameters
Limit of plane waves and small losses
Traversal of pulses in materials with negative material parameters

Plasmonics of Media with Negative Material Parameters
Surface electromagnetic modes in negative refractive materials
Waveguides made of negative index materials
Negative refraction of surface plasmons
Plasmonic properties of structured metallic surfaces
Surface waves at the interfaces of nonlinear media

Veselago’s Lens Is a Perfect Lens
Near-field information and diffraction limit
Mathematical demonstration of the perfect lens
Limitations due to real materials and imperfect NRMs
Issues with numerical simulations and time evolution
Negative stream of energy with a perfect lens configuration
Effects of spatial dispersion

Designing Super Lenses
Overcoming the limitations of real materials
Generalized perfect lens theorem
The perfect lens in other geometries

Brief Report on Electromagnetic Invisibility
Concept of electromagnetic invisibility
Excluding electromagnetic fields
Cloaking with localized resonances

Appendix A: The Fresnel Coefficients for Reflection and Refraction
Appendix B: The Dispersion and Fresnel Coefficients for a Bianisotropic Medium
Appendix C: The Reflection and Refraction of Light across a Material Slab

References

Index