Wave Propagation : : From Electrons to Photonic Crystals and Left-Handed Materials / / Costas M. Soukoulis, Peter Markos.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 75 line illus. 25 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Transfer Matrix
  • 2 Rectangular Potentials
  • 3 δ-Function Potential
  • 4 Kronig-Penney Model
  • 5 Tight Binding Model
  • 6 Tight Binding Models of Crystals
  • 7 Disordered Models
  • 8 Numerical Solution of the Schrödinger Equation
  • 9 Transmission and Reflection of Plane Electromagnetic Waves on an Interface
  • 10 Transmission and Reflection Coefficients for a Slab
  • 11 Surface Waves
  • 12 Resonant Tunneling through Double-Layer Structures
  • 13 Layered Electromagnetic Medium: Photonic Crystals
  • 14 Effective Parameters
  • 15 Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Structures
  • 16 Left-Handed Materials
  • Appendix A. Matrix Operations
  • Appendix B. Summary of Electrodynamics Formulas
  • Bibliography
  • Index