Invitation to Metamaterials

Didier Felbacq graduated in Physics and Mathematics from the École Centrale de Marseille in 1992 and the University of Aix-Marseille, where he earned an Agrégation in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1994. He is currently a professor at the University of Montpellier, France, in the Charles Coulomb Laboratory at CNRS.His research spans theoretical and numerical studies conducted in close collaboration with experimentalists. His current work focuses on excitons in 2D materials, topological effects in wave propagation, quantum and thermal metamaterials, and biophysics, including water transport in root systems and the use of machine learning for biological imaging.

• Introduction.- Basics of Maxwell equations.- Wave propagation in metamaterials: theoretical methods.- Wave propagation in metamaterials: numerical aspects.- Zoology of metamaterials: a biased view of applications and realizations.- Meta-surfaces.- Exotic metamaterials.- Other types of metamaterials.- Index.