Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become
the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic …

Biosensors are extensively employed for diagnosing a broad array of diseases and
disorders in clinical settings worldwide. The implementation of biosensors at the point-of …

A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

Image processing has become a critical technology in a variety of science and engineering
disciplines. Although most image processing is performed digitally, optical analog …

A design criterion that permits truly omnidirectional reflectivity for all polarizations of incident
light over a wide selectable range of frequencies was used in fabricating an all-dielectric …

Photonics, the technology of photons (as electronics is the technology of electrons),
promises to be the new century's driving force in the advancement of, mainly but not only …

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 …

Infrared (IR) fibers offer a versatile approach to guiding and manipulating light in the IR
spectrum, which is becoming increasingly more prominent in a variety of scientific …

Wave interference modifies phonon velocities and density of states, and in doing so creates
forbidden energy bandgaps for thermal phonons. Materials that exhibit wave interference …

Since the advent of quantum mechanics and the clear demonstration of the existence
of'matter waves', physicists have never failed to take advantage of concepts and theoretical …