The World of Applied Electromagnetics

Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia is the Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been elected a fellow of Optical Society of America, SPIE, Institute of Physics (UK), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Royal Society of Arts. He has been designated a Distinguished Alumnus at the highest level by the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) and the University of Utah. He received the 2010 Technical Achievement Award from SPIE and the 2016 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation from Sigma Xi. His current research interests include electromagnetic scattering, surface multiplasmonics, photovoltaic solar cells, sculptured thin films, mimumes, nano-refacing of bones, bioreplication, and forensic science. Dr. Cynthia M. Furse is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Furse is a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors. Her technological innovations and 14 patents include development of a system to locate intermittent electrical faults on aging aircraft wiring, with which she founded a successful spin off company, LiveWire Innovation. She is also a pioneering researcher in the development of telemetry antennas for medical implants, and fast methods for predicting the statistical variation in bioelectromagnetic applications. Dr. Furse teaches circuit design, electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, and antenna design and is currently a leader in the flipped classroom teaching method. She works to interest young students, including women and minorities, in engineering and routinely volunteers in Utah's K-12 schools. She has helped organize the Society of Women Engineers Girl Scout Night, Meet an Inventor Night, and College of Engineering High School Summer Camp. She has received numerous teaching and research awards including the 2009 IEEE Harriett B. Rigas Medal for Excellence in Teaching.

Introduction.- Four decades of research in electromagnetics.- Millimeter-wave endfire single-fed circularly polarized AFTSA-SC antenna.- High-performance hybrid smart antenna array for advanced wireless communications.- Antenna arrays for physical-layer-based directional networking technology.- Electrically small antennas.- Metamaterial-based antennas and a metasurface-based terahertz frequency splitter.- Electromagnetics research and challenges for tactical communication.- Antenna miniaturization in mobile communication systems.- Making ultra-wideband antennas unidirectional.- Radar reflectors mounted on power boats.- Radio propagation modeling in complex environments.- Radio propagation modeling: Unified view of the ray tracing image method across emerging indoor and outdoor environments.- Wireless performance in dense-transceiver scenarios to enable context-aware scenarios.- Bioelectromagnetic dosimetry: Simulating electromagnetic fields in the human body.- The genesis of microwave imaging as medical diagnosis modality.- Real-time quantitative reconstruction methods in microwave imaging.- Electromagnetics in medical applications: The cardiopulmonary stethoscope journey.- The Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem and the extended boundary condition method.- Propagator methods in electromagnetics.- Non-Hermitian metamaterials.- Unidirectional, defect-immune and topologically protected electromagnetic surface waves.- Single-band and multiband angular filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystals and one-layer gratings.- Construction of parts of the universe on tabletops.- Electromagnetics education: Past, present, and future directions.- Curriculum Vitae of Magdy Fahmy Iskander.