Adventures in Contemporary Electromagnetic Theory

Introduction.- 1. Our Werner always brought us joy.- 2. Scalar potentials and applications.- 3. A novel approach to electromagnetic constitutive relations.- 4. On the anatomy of Voigt plane waves.- 5. Electromagnetic radiation by finite-sized electric and magnetic dipoles embedded in homogeneous uniaxial dielectric materials.- 6. Near-field microwave imaging employing measured point-spread functions.- 7. Electromagnetic wave propagation inside rectangular chirowaveguides using the coupled mode method.- 8. On a Steklov spectrum in electromagnetics.- 9. Using boundary conditions with the Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem.- 10. Spatial sampling and interpolation techniques in computational electromagnetics and beyond.- 11. Light-matter interaction at the sub-wavelength scale: Pathways to design nanophotonic devices.- 12. Integrated photonics with near-zero index materials.- 13. Correlated disorder in broadband dielectric multilayered reflectors.- 14. Scattering from reconfigurable metasurfaces and their applications.- 15. Specular reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves by disordered metasurfaces.- 16. Continuity of field patterns for exceptional surface waves and exceptional compound waves.- 17. Cavity modes and surface plasmon waves coupling on nanostructured surfaces for enhanced sensing and energy applications.- 18. Analysis of diffraction from all-dielectric gratings using entire-domain integralequation techniques.- 19. Rigorous coupled-wave approach and transformation optics.- 20. Mind the gap between theory and experiment.- 21. Theoretical future — Vision 2030.