The book is entirely dedicated to the exploration of time-domain
electromagnetic fields in the presence of thin, high contrast sheets,
with an emphasis on metasurfaces combining magnetic and dielectric
properties.
Since the number of problems that are amenable to exact solutions in
terms of analytic functions is limited, the book's analysis is not
restricted to analytical methods only, attention is paid to the
development of computational and approximate techniques too. All the
solution methodologies presented in the book heavily rely on the
Cagniard-DeHoop technique. Regrettably, perhaps because of its origins
in seismology, this powerful mathematical tool is still not fully
appreciated in the electromagnetics and antenna community. It is hoped
that this book will demonstrate the truly broad applicability of the
Cagniard-DeHoop technique to achieving both analytical and numerical
time-domain solutions. The book is for advanced researchers in
computational electromagnetics and those looking for new approaches to
modelling of metasurfaces.
The book also includes a foreword from Professor Adrianus T. de Hoop,
the originator of the Cagniard-DeHoop technique, who ingeniously
simplified a joint transform initially put forward by the French
geophysicist Cagniard.