Testing ourselves

Abstract

Good news! Prof. Constantine A. Balanis has been negotiating with Wiley publishers about revising his Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics book [1], which originally was published in 1989. Although the book is doing extremely well, as he mentioned to me, he thinks that he can add few things to update it. His aim is to include some simulation/animation tools on the CD-ROM that will be part of the revised book. He also plans to include some figures that will illustrate novel concepts. One topic that he has been thinking about and seriously considering adding is at least a small section on some basic principles of metamaterials . He had just read our article on metamnaterials [21, and is interested in using our two-dimensional (2D) FDTD-based virtual visualization tool for metamaterial-wave interaction and some of its outputs in the revised version of his book.