This book describes the most recent advances in electromagnetic theory, motivated and partly informed by developments in engineering science and nanotechnology. The collection of chapters provided in this edited book, authored by leading experts in the field, offers a bird's eye view of recent progress in electromagnetic theory, spanning a wide range of topics of current interest, ranging from fundamental issues to applications.
Tom G. Mackay is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Strathclyde. His university education was supported by the British Heart Foundation and The Carnegie Trust for The Universities of Scotland. He is Professor of Applied Electromagnetic Theory in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and also an adjunct professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. In 2006/07 he held a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Executive Support Research Fellowship and in 2009/2010 a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) and SPIE--The International Society for Optics and Photonics. His research interests are based on the electromagnetic theory of complex mediums, including homogenization and surface waves.
Akhlesh Lakhtakia is Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.Tech. (1979) and D.Sc. (2006) degrees in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, and his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics from its inception in 2007 through 2013. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK), Optical Society of America, SPIE--The International Society for Optics and Photonics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Royal Society of Arts. His current research interests relate to electromagnetic fields in complex mediums, sculptured thin films, surface multiplasmonics and electromagnetic surface waves, mimumes, multicontrollable metasurfaces, thin-film solar cells, forensic science, bioreplication, engineered biomimicry, and biologically inspired design for environment. He has co-edited three research volumes published by Springer.
湯姆·G·麥凱（Tom G. Mackay）是愛丁堡大學、格拉斯哥大學和斯特拉斯克萊德大學的畢業生。他的學業受到英國心臟基金會和蘇格蘭大學卡內基信託的支持。他是愛丁堡大學數學學院應用電磁理論的教授，同時也是賓夕法尼亞州立大學工程科學與力學系的兼任教授。在2006/07年，他獲得了愛丁堡皇家學會/蘇格蘭行政部支持的研究獎學金，並在2009/2010年獲得了皇家工程學院/Leverhulme信託的高級研究獎學金。他是英國物理學會、Optica（前身為美國光學學會）和SPIE—國際光學與光子學學會的會士。他的研究興趣基於複雜介質的電磁理論，包括均質化和表面波。
阿克萊什·拉克塔基亞（Akhlesh Lakhtakia）是賓夕法尼亞州立大學的伊凡·皮尤大學教授及查爾斯·戈弗雷·賓德（捐贈）工程科學與力學教授。他在班納拉斯印度大學技術學院獲得電子工程的學士學位（B.Tech.，1979年）和科學博士學位（D.Sc.，2006年），並在猶他大學獲得電氣工程的碩士學位（M.S.，1981年）和博士學位（Ph.D.，1983年）。他自2007年創刊至2013年擔任《納米光子學期刊》的主編。他被選為美國科學促進會、美國物理學會、英國物理學會、美國光學學會、SPIE—國際光學與光子學學會、電氣和電子工程師學會、皇家化學學會和皇家藝術學會的會士。他目前的研究興趣涉及複雜介質中的電磁場、雕刻薄膜、表面多重等離子體和電磁表面波、最小化、多重可控超表面、薄膜太陽能電池、法醫科學、生物複製、工程仿生學以及環境的生物啟發設計。他共同編輯了三本由施普林格出版的研究專著。
