Electromagnetic Heterostructures

Christian Brosseau is Professor of Physics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France where he led the wave–matter interaction modelling and simulation group. His research interests include electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media, plasmonics, nanophysics, biological physics, and computational materials physics.

Part 1. Elementary concepts and definitions
1. Maxwell equations and basic electromagnetic theory
2. Polarization in a static electric field
3. Polarization and permittivity in an alternating electric field

Part 2. Analytical approaches
4. Prelude: A historical examination
5. Some preliminary considerations
6. Mixing laws
7. Effective-medium approximation: its basis and formulation
8. Bounds for the homogenization of dielectric composite materials
9. Percolation: Crossing the great divide of bulk heterogeneous matter
10. Reciprocity relations and extensions

Part 3. Computational approaches
11. Some preliminary considerations: the problem in context
12. Finite differences method
13. Finite-difference time-domain propagation
14. Finite element method
15. Integral equation approaches
16. Monte Carlo method
17. Other selected methods