Advances in Complex Electromagnetic Materials

I. General.- Fedorov’s Covariant Methods in the Electromagnetic Field Theory.- Developments of Fedorov Covariant Methods and Applications to Optically Active Crystals.- Bi-Isotropic and Bi-Anisotropic Media (General Review).- II. Fundamental Issues of Bi-Anisotropic Electromagnetics.- Covariant Multipole D and H Fields for Reflection from a Magnetic An isotropic Chiral Medium.- Jones Transmission and Reflection Matrices for Low-Symmetric Absorbing Gyrotropic Crystals.- Inverse Problem of Reflection and Transmission for a Bianisotropic Medium.- Chiral Effects and Eigenwaves in Bi-Anisotropic Omega Structures.- Pulse Distortion by a Lossy, Resonant Chiral Medium.- III. Continuum Modelling of Complex Media.- Non-Local Response of Composite Materials in Microwave Range.- Effective-Medium Theories for Bi-Isotropic Mixtures.- Effective Material Parameters of Plane Stratified Bianisotropic Superlattices.- Weakly Nonlinear Chiral Composites: the Bruggeman and the Maxwell Garnett Models.- Optically Induced Rotating Spatially Uniform Structure in Chiral Media.- Faraday Effect and Magnetogyration in Superlattices in the Long Wave length Approximation.- IV. Scattering and Diffraction from Bi-Anisotropic Structures.- Electromagnetic Scattering by Three-Dimensional Arbitrary Shaped Chiral Objects.- Scattering by Frequency Selective Surfaces Supported by an Isotropic Chiral Slab.- Plane Wave Diffraction by a Wedge Coated with Thin Bi-Isotropic Layers.- Optimization Approach to an Inverse Problem for a Stratified Bi-Isotropic Slab.- The Influence of Induced Chiral Properties on the Transformation of Acoustic Waves Polarization in Piezoelectric Semiconductors.- Electrodynamics of Chirowaveguides: Mode Orthogonality, Mode Excitation, Mode Interactions.- Electromagnetic Surface Waves ata Plane Boundary of Semi-Infinite Faraday Chiral Media.- Chiro-Plasma Surface Wave.- V. Electromagnetic Modelling of Complex Particles.- On Electromagnetic Theory of Artificial Nonchiral and Chiral Media with Resonant Particles (a Review).- The Relation Between Co- and Cross-Polarizabilities of Small Conductive Bi-Anisotropic Particles.- Modelling Composite Media Including Chiral or Pseudo-Chiral Scatterers.- Mutual Coupling in Arrays of Planar Chiral Structures.- VI. Experiments, Measurements, Applications.- Stereo-Glasses with Composite and Chiral Liquid Crystals.- Manufacture of Microwave Chiral Materials and their Electromagnetic Properties.- On Chirality Measurements in Circular Waveguides.- Experimental Investigation of Response of Chiral Media and “Chiral Media — Ferrite ” Structures to Microwave Radiation and Governing Magnetic Field.- Magnetostatically Controlled Bianisotropic Media: A Novel Class of Artificial Magnetoelectric Materials.- List of Contributors.