Recent advances in our understanding of complex composite media, especially chiral media for microwave applications, suggest the feasibility of creating novel materials with unusual properties and the possibility of constructing new microwave devices using such materials. The emphasis of the book is on bi-anisotropic materials, whose most interesting feature is the magnetoelectric interaction of the fields. The materials are expected to supply useful applications in radar technology, aerospace, microwave engineering, manufacturing technology, etc., such as absorbers for low-reflectivity shields, reciprocal phase shifters, polarization transformers. The first experiments with artificial bi-anisotropic media have been successfully carried out.

Inhalt
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.