Modern analytical electromagnetic homogenization

Modern Analytical Electromagnetic Homogenization

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-140

  Mackay, Tom G ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIANISOTROPY; BIRD'S EYE VIEW; ELECTROMAGNETIC HOMOGENIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; LENGTH SCALE; LONG WAVELENGTH; PARTICULATE COMPOSITE MATERIAL;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 84957648219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1088/978-1-6270-5427-0     Document Type: Book

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