Electromagnetic Heterostructures

Christian Brosseau is Professor of Physics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France where he led the wave–matter interaction modelling and simulation group. His research interests include electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media, plasmonics, nanophysics, biological physics, and computational materials physics.

• Part 1. Elementary concepts and definitions 1. Maxwell equations and basic electromagnetic theory2. Polarization in a static electric field3. Polarization and permittivity in an alternating electric fieldPart 2. Analytical approaches 4. Prelude: A historical examination5. Some preliminary considerations6. Mixing laws7. Effective-medium approximation: its basis and formulation8. Bounds for the homogenization of dielectric composite materials9. Percolation: Crossing the great divide of bulk heterogeneous matter10. Reciprocity relations and extensionsPart 3. Computational approaches 11. Some preliminary considerations: the problem in context12. Finite differences method13. Finite-difference time-domain propagation14. Finite element method15. Integral equation approaches16. Monte Carlo method17. Other selected methods