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There have been increasing interests in metamaterials in the past 10 years in the scientific communities. However, metamaterials are sometimes regarded as left-handed materials or negative refractive index materials by a lot of people including researchers. In fact, the rapid development in this exciting area has shown that metamaterials are far beyond left-handed materials. In this chapter, we will clarify what metamaterial is and report the recent progress on metamaterials. We also summarize the important issues for the development and future of metamaterials, including the optical transformation, effective medium theory for periodic structures, broadband and low-loss metamaterials, rapid design of metamaterials, and potential applications. The impact of computational electromagnetics on metamaterials is briefly discussed.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by a major project of the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60990320 and 60990324, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No. BK2008031, the National Basic Research Program (973) of China under Grant No. 2004CB719802, the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60871016, 60671015, and 60621002, and in part by the 111 Project under Grant No. 111-2-05.

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    Tie Jun Cui

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Box 90291, 27708, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    Ruopeng Liu & David R. Smith

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    Ruopeng Liu

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Cui, T.J., Liu, R., Smith, D.R. (2010). Introduction to Metamaterials. In: Cui, T., Smith, D., Liu, R. (eds) Metamaterials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0573-4_1

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