Marko�s, Peter,

Wave propagation : from electrons to photonic crystals and left-handed materials / Peter Marko�s, Costas M. Soukoulis. - Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, �2008. - 1 online resource (xi, 352 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-347) and index.

Transfer matrix -- Rectangular potentials -- [delta]-function potential -- Kronig-Penney model -- Tight binding model -- Tight binding models of crystals -- Disordered models -- Numerical solution of the Schr�odinger equation -- Transmission and reflection of plane electromagnetic waves on an interface -- Transmission and reflection coefficients for a slab -- Surface waves -- Resonant tunneling through double-layer structures -- Layered electromagnetic medium : photonic crystals -- Effective parameters -- Wave propagation in nonlinear structures -- Left-handed materials -- Matrix operations -- Summary of electrodynamics formulas.

This textbook offers the first unified treatment of wave propagation in electronic and electromagnetic systems and introduces readers to the essentials of the transfer matrix method, a powerful analytical tool that can be used to model and study an array of problems pertaining to wave propagation in electrons and photons. It is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students in physics, materials science, electrical and computer engineering, and mathematics, and is ideal for researchers in photonic crystals, negative index materials, left-handed materials, plasmonics, nonlinear effects.

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22573/cttsg05 JSTOR 9453371 IEEE




Wave-motion, Theory of.
Elastic waves.
Wave-motion, Theory of--Mathematics.
Electromagnetic waves--Transmission.
Ondes �elastiques.
Th�eorie du mouvement ondulatoire.
Th�eorie du mouvement ondulatoire--Math�ematiques.
Ondes �electromagn�etiques--Propagation.
SCIENCE--Waves & Wave Mechanics.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
Wave-motion, Theory of.
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Electronic book.
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