To meet the demands of students scientists and engineers for a systematic reference source
this book introduces comprehensively and in a single voice research and development progress
in emerging metamaterials and derived functional metadevices. Coverage includes electromagnetic
optical acoustic thermal and mechanical metamaterials and related metadevices. Metamaterials
are artificially engineered composites with designed properties beyond those attainable in
nature and with applications in all aspects of materials science. From spatially tailored
dielectrics to tunable dynamic materials properties and unique nonlinear behavior
metamaterial systems have demonstrated tremendous flexibility and functionality in
electromagnetic optical acoustic thermal and mechanical engineering. Furthermore the field
of metamaterials has been extended from the mere pursuit of various exotic properties towards
the realization of practical devices leading to the concepts of dynamically-reconfigurable
metadevices and functional metasurfaces. The book explores the fundamental physics design and
engineering aspects as well as the full array of state-of-the-art applications to electronics
telecommunications antennas and energy harvesting. Future challenges and potential in regard
to design modeling and fabrication are also addressed.
