Handbook of Nano-Metamaterials
暫譯: 奈米超材料手冊

本手冊旨在作為納米超材料的綜合參考書。該書涵蓋了納米超材料的各個主題，從理論建模到製造，從測量技術到應用。書中包含了納米技術領域的先驅和領導者的貢獻。本卷是涵蓋超材料科學和技術各個方面的更大參考系列的一部分。本卷的內容將對學術界和關鍵工業領域的研究人員有所幫助，例如航空航天、衛星通信和國防。

Dr. Balamati Choudhury is working as a Senior Principal Scientist at Centre for Electromagnetics of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), Bangalore, India. Her active areas of research and teaching interests are in the domain of Stealth technologies, Soft Computing Techniques in Electromagnetic Design and Optimization, Computational Electromagnetics for Aerospace Applications, Metamaterial Design Applications, RF, and Microwaves. More specifically, the topics of the sponsored projects she has contributed to are: development of Ray Tracing Techniques towards RF Analysis of Propagation in an Indoor Environment, Low RCS design, Phased Arrays and Adaptive Arrays, Conformal Antennas. She was recipient of ICCCES/Outstanding Young Investigator Award for the year 2016-2017 for her contributions in Metamaterial Science by ICCES, USA. She was also the recipient of the CSIR-NAL Young Scientist Award for the year 2013-2014 for her contribution in the area of Computational Electromagnetics for Aerospace Applications. Dr. Balamati has authored or co-authored over 270 scientific research papers and technical reports, besides 4 books, 5 Springer Briefs, and 3 book chapters. Concurrently she is also contributing to academia being an Associate Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) and has been nominated as Board of Studies member of R. V. College of Engineering (RVCE) by Karnataka government.

Prof. Vinod K. Tewary is a theoretical physicist at the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division of the

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Colorado, USA. He received his PhD in Solid State

Physics from Delhi University. Since then, he has worked as a research associate in the Atomic Energy

Research Establishment, in Harwell, UK; a professor of Physics and Dean of Research at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; and an adjunct professor at Ohio State University, Columbus. His areas of research interest include multiscale modeling of nanostructures, modeling of mechanical properties of semiconductors and solid-state devices, crystal defects and photons in nanostructures, with special focus on lattice, continuum, and multiscale Green's functions. He is a recipient of several awards for his contributions to the field, including the Distinguished Fellow and Lifetime achievement Awards, and the Eric Reissner Medal by ICCES (International Conference on Computational Engineering and Sciences) in 2017, 2013, and 2004, respectively. He received a Bronze Medal from the US government (Department of Commerce) for scientific research and technical leadership in 1996, the Multicultural award by Boulder (Colorado State) in 1994, and the Pride of India Award for Excellence in Sciences in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, in 1974 (re-elected in June 2024). Dr. Tewary has 3 books (including 2 edited books on nanomaterials) and over 130 research publications to his name, which include research papers, review articles, and book chapters.

Dr. Krushna Kanth Varikuntla is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Wireless Innovations, Queen's University Belfast, UK. His research specializes in Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) for 5G/6G communication, strategic applications, and plasma-based high-power EMI protection. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Toledo, USA (2022-2023). He received his PhD from NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2020 for his thesis on Frequency Selective Surfaces Based on SIW: Design, Analysis, and Applications, earning the Outstanding Researcher Award (2019-2020). An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur (JNTUA) (BTech, 2012) and Pondicherry University (MTech, 2015), Dr. Varikuntla gained experience at CSIR-NAL, Bangalore, as Project Assistant-III and at Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore, as Project Engineer. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), European Microwave Association (EuMA), and International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and has held leadership roles, including founding IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) and Antenna and Propagation Society (APS-S) Student Chapters at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy. Dr. Krushna Kanth has contributed significantly to his field, with over 40 publications, 2 Springer-authored books, 3 patents, and 3 international Best Paper Awards. He serves as an editor for a Springer book series on metamaterials and a reviewer for leading journals. He was awarded the DRDO Dare to Dream Innovation Contest (2019) and invited to DefExpo 2020 by the Indian Ministry of Defence.

Research Interests: Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), aerospace applications, Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS), Radar Absorbing Structures (RAS), Radar Absorbing Materials (RAM), metamaterials, metasurfaces, antennas, phased array antennas, Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology, microwave integrated circuits, planar filters, radome design, antenna pattern measurements, RF plasma, high-power microwave (HPM) protection, Polarization Selective Surfaces, millimeterwave and terahertz (THz) radomes, radar cross-section (RCS) computation, Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) modeling.

巴拉馬提·喬杜里博士目前擔任印度班加羅爾科學與工業研究委員會國家航空實驗室（CSIR-NAL）電磁學中心的高級首席科學家。她的研究和教學興趣主要集中在隱形技術、電磁設計與優化中的軟計算技術、航空航天應用的計算電磁學、超材料設計應用、射頻（RF）和微波等領域。更具體地說，她參與的贊助項目主題包括：室內環境中傳播的射頻分析的光線追蹤技術開發、低雷達截面（RCS）設計、相控陣列和自適應陣列、符合性天線。她因在超材料科學方面的貢獻而獲得2016-2017年度的ICCCES/傑出青年研究者獎（Outstanding Young Investigator Award），該獎項由美國ICCES頒發。她還因在航空航天應用的計算電磁學領域的貢獻而獲得2013-2014年度的CSIR-NAL青年科學家獎。巴拉馬提博士已發表或共同發表超過270篇科學研究論文和技術報告，此外還出版了4本書籍、5本Springer簡報和3個書章。同時，她也在學術界貢獻，擔任科學與創新研究學院（AcSIR）的副教授，並被卡納塔克邦政府提名為R.V.工程學院（RVCE）學術委員會成員。

維諾德·K·特瓦里教授是美國科羅拉多州國家標準與技術研究所（NIST）應用化學與材料部的理論物理學家。他在德里大學獲得固態物理學博士學位。此後，他曾在英國哈威爾的原子能研究所擔任研究助理，並在印度比爾拉科技與科學學院擔任物理學教授及研究院院長，還曾在俄亥俄州立大學擔任兼任教授。他的研究興趣包括納米結構的多尺度建模、半導體和固態設備的機械性質建模、納米結構中的晶體缺陷和光子，特別關注晶格、連續體和多尺度格林函數。他因在該領域的貢獻獲得多項獎項，包括2017年、2013年和2004年由ICCES頒發的傑出研究員和終身成就獎，以及埃里克·雷斯納獎（Eric Reissner Medal）。他於1996年獲得美國政府（商務部）頒發的科學研究和技術領導的銅獎，1994年獲得科羅拉多州博爾德的多元文化獎，1992年獲得印度科學卓越獎（Pride of India Award）。他於1974年當選英國物理學會會士（Institute of Physics, UK），並於2024年6月重新當選。特瓦里博士擁有3本書（包括2本關於納米材料的編輯書籍）和超過130篇研究出版物，包括研究論文、綜述文章和書章。

克魯什納·坎特·瓦里昆特拉博士是英國貝爾法斯特女王大學無線創新中心的研究員。他的研究專注於5G/6G通信的頻率選擇性表面（FSS）、戰略應用和基於等離子體的高功率電磁干擾（EMI）保護。此前，他曾在美國托萊多大學擔任博士後研究助理（2022-2023）。他於2020年在印度NIT提魯奇拉帕利獲得博士學位，論文主題為基於SIW的頻率選擇性表面：設計、分析與應用，並獲得2019-2020年度的傑出研究者獎。瓦里昆特拉博士是印度賈瓦哈拉爾·尼赫魯科技大學阿南塔普爾（JNTUA）畢業生（學士學位，2012年）和龐迪榭里大學（碩士學位，2015年），曾在CSIR-NAL班加羅爾擔任項目助理-III，並在航空發展局（ADA）班加羅爾擔任項目工程師。他是電氣和電子工程師學會（IEEE）、歐洲微波協會（EuMA）和國際無線科學聯合會（URSI）的成員，並擔任過領導職位，包括在國立技術學院（NIT）提奇創立IEEE微波理論與技術學會（MTT-S）和天線與傳播學會（APS-S）學生分會。克魯什納·坎特博士在其領域做出了重要貢獻，擁有超過40篇出版物、2本Springer編著書籍、3項專利和3項國際最佳論文獎。他擔任Springer超材料書系的編輯，並為多本領先期刊擔任審稿人。他獲得了DRDO Dare to Dream創新比賽（2019）的獎項，並受邀參加2020年印度國防展（DefExpo 2020）。

研究興趣：計算電磁學（CEM）、航空航天應用、頻率選擇性表面（FSS）、雷達吸收結構（RAS）、雷達吸收材料（RAM）、超材料、超表面、天線、相控陣列天線、基板集成波導（SIW）技術、微波集成電路、平面濾波器、雷達罩設計、天線模式測量、射頻等離子體、高功率微波（HPM）保護、極化選擇性表面、毫米波和太赫茲（THz）雷達罩、雷達截面（RCS）計算、有限差分時域（FDTD）建模。