Fan Yang is Assistant Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Yang received Young Scientist Awards in the 2005 General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and in the 2007 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory. Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor, holder of the Northrop-Grumman Chair in electromagnetics and past Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has received numerous recognitions and awards including IEEE Fellow in 1985, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2005 URSI Booker Gold Medal, the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the membership of the US National Academy of Engineering.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. FDTD Method for periodic structure analysis; 3. EBG Characterizations and classifications; 4. Design and optimizations of EBG structures; 5. Patch antennas with EBG structures; 6. Low profile wire antennas on EBG surfaces; 7. Surface wave antennas; Appendix: EBG literature review.