Essential concepts in metamaterials /

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"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A new era of tailor-made optical media -- 1.1. Structural evolution : from composites to artificial atoms -- 1.2. The l/a rule : when structure matters -- 1.3. Quest for a negative refractive index2. Effective medium of metamaterials -- 2.1. Constitutive relationship -- 2.2. Understanding metamaterials with a dipolar model -- 2.3. S-parameter retrieval method -- 2.4. Effective and local fields -- 2.5. Field-averaging method -- 2.6. Spatial symmetries -- 2.7. Problems3. Principles of transformation optics -- 3.1. Heuristic derivation -- 3.2. Curvilinear coordinates -- 3.3. Form invariance -- 3.4. Transformation media -- 3.5. Approaching electrostatics -- 3.6. Approaching geometrical optics -- 3.7. Problems4. Invisibility cloaks and other devices -- 4.1. Scaling map and invisibility cloak -- 4.2. Conformal map with isotropic materials -- 4.3. Quasiconformal map and carpet cloak -- 4.4. Affine map and carpet cloak -- 4.5. Internal-symmetry transformation -- 4.6. Spacetime transformation -- 4.7. Problems5. Metasurfaces -- 5.1. Geometric and propagation phases -- 5.2. Beam steering and q-plate -- 5.3. Metasurface holograms -- 5.4. Surface wave manipulation -- 5.5. Artificial electromagnetic boundary -- 5.6. Problems6. Acoustic metamaterials -- 6.1. Acoustic field-averaging method -- 6.2. Understanding acoustic metamaterials with dipolar model -- 6.3. Space-coiling acoustic metamaterials -- 6.4. Programmable acoustic response -- 6.5. Time-varying constitutive parameters -- 6.6. Temporal modulation for frequency conversion -- 6.7. Transformation approach -- 6.8. Field transformation for non-reciprocal responses -- 6.9. Extension to flexural waves in elastic plates and beams -- 6.10. Problems.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.Metamaterials have transformed the study and control of waves, enabling effects such as negative refraction, cloaking, tailored dispersion, and programmable wavefront shaping. The field has expanded quickly from its electromagnetic origins into acoustics, elasticity, and time-varying platforms, creating a need for an introductory text that links core physical ideas with modern developments in a clear and gradual way. This book is written for advanced undergraduates and first-year postgraduate students who are starting research or looking for a structured entry point into the area.Graduate students and researchers in physics, materials and electrical engineering.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Jensen Li is a researcher in metamaterials and wave physics whose work ranges from microwave and optical metasurfaces to acoustic and elastic systems. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Croucher Foundation and an Optica Fellow, with a background that spans both theoretical modelling and experimental realisation.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2026).

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