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This book describes the most recent advances in electromagnetic
theory, motivated and partly informed by developments in
engineering science and nanotechnology. The collection of chapters
provided in this edited book, authored by leading experts in the
field, offers a bird’s eye view of recent progress in
electromagnetic theory, spanning a wide range of topics of current
interest, ranging from fundamental issues to applications.
Do perception and action share some of the same cognitive
structures? What is the relationship between cognitive processes
for sequencing, timing, and error detection in perception and
action? Such issues form the basis for this fresh and absorbing
study of the perception and production of language and other
cognitive skills such as chess and piano playing. "The Organization
of Perception and Action" provides a coherent and innovative
synthesis of available data, challenges classical theories, and
offers new insights into relations between language, thought, and
action. Its broad, interdisciplinary approach and wealth of
detailed examples extend from the motor control of typing to the
role of attention in perception and action and the flexibility of
conscious vs. unconscious processes. Not only researchers, but
anyone with a general interest in the cognitive and brain sciences
will find in this book new and interesting insights into topics
long considered fundamental to psychology and related disciplines.
The transfer-matrix method (TMM) in electromagnetics and optics is
a powerful and convenient mathematical formalism for determining
the planewave reflection and transmission characteristics of an
infinitely extended slab of a linear material. While the TMM was
introduced for a homogeneous uniaxial dielectric-magnetic material
in the 1960s, and subsequently extended for multilayered slabs, it
has more recently been developed for the most general linear
materials, namely bianisotropic materials. By means of the rigorous
coupled-wave approach, slabs that are periodically nonhomogeneous
in the thickness direction can also be accommodated by the TMM. In
this book an overview of the TMM is presented for the most general
contexts as well as for some for illustrative simple cases. Key
theoretical results are given; for derivations, the reader is
referred to the references at the end of each chapter. Albums of
numerical results are also provided, and the computer code used to
generate these results are provided in an appendix.
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Evolved (Paperback)
Matthew G McKay
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Electromagnetic homogenization is the process of estimating the
effective electromagnetic properties of composite materials in the
long-wavelength regime, wherein the length scales of
nonhomogeneities are much smaller than the wavelengths involved.
This is a bird's-eye view of currently available homogenization
formalisms for particulate composite materials. It presents
analytical methods only, with focus on the general settings of
anisotropy and bianisotropy. The authors largely concentrate on
'effective' materials as opposed to 'equivalent' materials, and
emphasize the fundamental (but sometimes overlooked) differences
between these two categories of homogenized composite materials.
The properties of an 'effective' material represents those of its
composite material, regardless of the geometry and dimensions of
the bulk materials and regardless of the orientations and
polarization states of the illuminating electromagnetic fields. In
contrast, the properties of 'equivalent' materials only represent
those of their corresponding composite materials under certain
restrictive circumstances.
Electromagnetic homogenization is the process of estimating the
effective electromagnetic properties of composite materials in the
long-wavelength regime, wherein the length scales of
nonhomogeneities are much smaller than the wavelengths involved.
This is a bird's-eye view of currently available homogenization
formalisms for particulate composite materials. It presents
analytical methods only, with focus on the general settings of
anisotropy and bianisotropy. The authors largely concentrate on
'effective' materials as opposed to 'equivalent' materials, and
emphasize the fundamental (but sometimes overlooked) differences
between these two categories of homogenized composite materials.
The properties of an 'effective' material represents those of its
composite material, regardless of the geometry and dimensions of
the bulk materials and regardless of the orientations and
polarization states of the illuminating electromagnetic fields. In
contrast, the properties of 'equivalent' materials only represent
those of their corresponding composite materials under certain
restrictive circumstances.
New Edition: Electromagnetic Anisotropy and Bianisotropy (2nd
Edition)The topics of anisotropy and bianisotropy are fundamental
to electromagnetics from both theoretical and experimental
perspectives. These properties underpin a host of complex and
exotic electromagnetic phenomenons in naturally occurring materials
and in relativistic scenarios, as well as in artificially produced
metamaterials. As a unique guide to this rapidly developing field,
the book provides a unified presentation of key classic and recent
results on the studies of constitutive relations, spacetime
symmetries, planewave propagation, dyadic Green functions, and
homogenization of composite materials. This book also offers an
up-to-date extension to standard treatments of crystal optics with
coverage on both linear and weakly nonlinear regimes.
The aim of this book is to extend and update the standard
treatments of crystal optics found in classical textbooks. It
provides a broad overview of electromagnetic anisotropy,
bianisotropy, and chirality. The topics covered are constitutive
relations (Chapter 1); examples of anisotropy, bianisotropy, and
chirality (Chapter 2); spacetime symmetries (Chapter 3); planewave
propagation (Chapter 4); dyadic Green functions including
depolarization dyadics (Chapter 5); homogenization formalisms
(Chapter 6); nonlinear aspects (Chapter 7); surface waves (Chapter
8) and topological insulators (Chapter 9). New additions in this
second edition are: Chapters 8 and 9, expanded treatments of active
mediums in Chapter 4, and the Huygens principle and the Ewald-Oseen
extinction theorem in Chapter 5. This book is perfect for
postbaccalaureate students and researchers seeking an introductory
survey of the electromagnetic theory of complex mediums.
Chitosan is a partially deacetylated derivative of chitin, a
natural polysaccharide extracted from crustaceans, insects and
certain fungi. Owing to its unique properties such as
biodegradability, biocompatability, biological activity and
capacity of forming polyelectrolyte complex with anionic
polyelectrolytes, chitosan has been widely applied in the food and
cosmetics industry, as well as the biomedical field in relation to
tissue engineering, and the pharmaceutical industry relating to
drug delivery. This handbook gathers current research from around
the globe in the study of chitosan and its applications.
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