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This book goes beyond left-handed materials or negative index materials and focuses on recent research activity. It includes an introduction to optical transformation theory and coverage of a new rapid design method for inhomogeneous metamaterials.

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Metamaterials:Theory, Design, and Applications goes beyond left-handed materials (LHM) or negative index materials (NIM) and focuses on recent research activity. Included here is an introduction to optical transformation theory, revealing invisible cloaks, EM concentrators, beam splitters, and new-type antennas, a presentation of general theory on artificial metamaterials composed of periodic structures, coverage of a new rapid design method for inhomogeneous metamaterials, which makes it easier to design a cloak, and new developments including but not limited to experimental verification of invisible cloaks, FDTD simulations of invisible cloaks, the microwave and RF applications of metamaterials, sub-wavelength imaging using anisotropic metamaterials, dynamical metamaterial systems, photonic metamaterials, and magnetic plasmon effects of metamaterials.

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to Metamaterials.- Optical Transformation Theory.- General Theory on Artificial Metamaterials.- Rapid Design for Metamaterials.- Broadband and Low-Loss Non-Resonant Metamaterials.- Experiment on Cloaking Devices.- Finite-Difference Time-Domain Modeling of Electromagnetic Cloaks.- Compensated Anisotropic Metamaterials: Manipulating Sub-wavelength Images.- The Dynamical Study of the Metamaterial Systems.- Photonic Metamaterials Based on Fractal Geometry.- Magnetic Plasmon Modes Introduced by the Coupling Effect in Metamaterials.- Enhancing Light Coupling With Plasmonic Optical Antennas.- Wideband and Low-Loss Metamaterials for Microwave and RF Applications: Fast Algorithm and Antenna Design.- Experiments and Applications of Metamaterials in Microwave Regime.- Left-Handed Transmission Line of Low Pass and Its Applications.

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