Advances in Electromagnetics of Complex Media and Metamaterials

I. General Aspects of Complex Media and Metamaterials.- Electromagnetic Emergence in Metamaterials. Deconstruction of Terminology of Complex Media.- Ideas for Potential Applications of Metamaterials with Negative Permittivity and Permeability.- Frequency Response Engineering of Magnetic Composite Materials.- A Flavour of Constitutive Relations: The Linear Regime.- II. Metamaterials With Negative Parameters.- Electrodynamics of Media with Simultaneously Negative Electric Permittivity and Magnetic Permeability.- Modelling and Microwave Properties of Artificial Materials with Negative Parameters.- On the Electromagnetic Modelling of Left-Handed Metamaterials.- III. Photonic Band Gap Materials.- Controllable Semiconductor Photonic Band Gap Structures.- Photonic Band Gap Effects in Magnetic Film with Periodically Striped-Domain Structure.- Simulation of Finite Photonic Crystals made of Biisotropic or Chiral Material. Using the Method of Auxiliary Sources.- IV. Analysis And Modelling Of Bianisotropic Structures.- Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Artificial Anisotropie Uniform and Twisted Omega-Structures.- A Review of Homogenization Studies for Biaxial Bianisotropic Materials.- Dispersion Properties of Stop-Band Structures from Thin Metallic Spirals.- Effective Electron Model of the Wire Helix Excitation at Microwaves: First Step to Optimization of Pitch Angle of Helix.- V. Advanced Computational Methods For Electromagnetic Waves Interaction With Metamaterials.- Transmission and Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves by the Plane Stratified Structures Possessing Gyrotropic Properties.- Selective Reflection at an Oblique Incidence of Electromagnetic Waves onto Stratified Periodic Gyrotropic Structures.- Resonances of Closed Modes in Thin Arrays of Complex Particles.- Surface and Leaky Modes of Multilayered Omega Structures.- The Competition of Bragg Reflection and Fresnel's Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves in the Artificial Helicoidal Bianisotropic Media with Local Chirality.- Use of Contemporary Mathematical Applications for Exact Solution of Light Propagation Problem in Layered Media. Propagation and Scattering.- VI. Heterogeneous Materials and Wave Localization.- On Electrodynamics of One-Dimensional Heterogeneous System Beyond Homogenization Approximation.- Localized Electromagnetic and Elastic Fields with Applications to Control Laser Radiation.- Excitonic Composites.- Optical Anisotropy of the Crystals at the Nonuniform Fields.- VII. Applications of Complex Media and Other Metamaterials.- Self-Adaptive Material Systems.- Electromagnetic Field Solution in Curved Structures with Local Bianisotropic Loading Media.- Dielectric Substrates Anisotropy Effects on the Characteristics of Microstrip Structures.- Theoretical and Experimental Limitations of Chiral Microwave Absorbers.- List of Contributors.