Clearly demonstrates novel aspects of metamaterials to show the direction of future developmentsPresents innovative concepts that will lead to qualitatively new phenomena and devicesDescribes topics with many practical examples to help the reader to learn easily

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Kazuaki Sakoda completed his BE, ME, and PhD degrees at the University of Tokyo. After working as an Associate Professor at Hokkaido University, he joined the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. He was the Director of the Quantum Dot Research Center and Photonic Materials Unit, while also serving as a Professor at the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba. He served as a Program Officer in the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and as a Director in the Physical Society of Japan. He was also the Head Investigator of the research project "Electromagnetic Metamaterials" organized by MEXT, Japan. His main research area is the optical properties of matter. He has been engaged in the theoretical study of photonic crystals and metamaterials for many years, and has published more than 200 research papers and three books, including Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals (Springer, 2004).

Inhalt

Modern Insights into Macroscopic Electromagnetic Fields.- Fabrication Techniques for Three-dimensional Optical Metamaterials.- Blackbody Metamaterial Composite Film of Nanoparticle and Polymer.- Bottom-up Strategies for Fabricating Meta-atoms via Self-assembly of Polymers and Nanoparticles.- UV-Nanoimprinted Metasurface Thermal Emitters for Infrared CO2 Sensing.- Birefringent Metamaterials for THz Optics.- Development and Applications of Metasurfaces for Terahertz Waves.- Efficient Optical Modulation of Terahertz Metamaterials Utilizing Organic/Inorganic Semiconductor Hybrid Systems.- Negative Refractive Index Materials Composed of Metal Patterns and the Applications.- Functional Composites of Discharge Plasmas and Solid Metamaterials.- Meta-Atoms Emulating Quantum Systems.- Dispersion Relation in Chiral Media: Credibility of Drude-Born-Fedorov Equations.- Surface Waves of Isotropic Chiral Metamaterials.- Magnetochiral Metamolecules for Microwaves.- Dispersion Engineering of Nonreciprocal Metamaterials.- Photonic Dirac Cones and Relevant Physics.