Wave propagation : from electrons to photonic crystals and left-handed materials /
This textbook offers the first unified treatment of wave propagation in electronic and electromagnetic systems and introduces readers to the essentials of the transfer matrix method, a powerful analytical tool that can be used to model and study an array of problems pertaining to wave propagation in...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Transfer matrix
- Rectangular potentials
- [delta]-function potential
- Kronig-Penney model
- Tight binding model
- Tight binding models of crystals
- Disordered models
- Numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation
- Transmission and reflection of plane electromagnetic waves on an interface
- Transmission and reflection coefficients for a slab
- Surface waves
- Resonant tunneling through double-layer structures
- Layered electromagnetic medium : photonic crystals
- Effective parameters
- Wave propagation in nonlinear structures
- Left-handed materials
- Matrix operations
- Summary of electrodynamics formulas.