Engineered Mediums: Overview and Applications

The proper selection of mediums in designing certain photonic components plays an important role in achieving on-demand electromagnetic behavior that can be exploited for on-demand applications. Configuring the medium itself significantly impacts the electromagnetic features of the design as a whole. Engineered mediums can be conceptualized by the amalgamation of these features as a highly focused area of research and development over the last decade. Metamaterials are also classified as engineered mediums that have multifarious usages in a variety of technological arenas. A few notable examples of such applications would be in sensing, imaging, beam streaming or filtering, thermal switching, wireless power transmission, electromagnetic heating devices, and solar cells. Engineered Mediums: Overview and Applications focuses on the up-to-date research and developments in this field reported by pioneering scientists from different countries. Topics covered in this volume fall under advanced applications of engineered mediums, primarily in view of the photonics lexicon, along with certain fundamental backgrounds of the rapidly emerging topic and research progress—this ensures the book’s importance to research students and faculty members at academic organizations as well as researchers in the industry. In short, the book provides readers with a solid foundation to grasp the rapidly emerging topic and highlights key insights into the current trends and techniques of engineered mediums and their applications in different technological disciplines.

• Publication date: 30 October 2025
• Page count: 380
• Publisher: SPIE Press
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9781510683198