Download or read book Waves In Gradient Metamaterials written by Alexander B Shvartsburg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a new avenue to an engendering field of applied physics, located at the “crossing” of modern photonics, electromagnetics, acoustics and material science. It also highlights the concept of “non-locality”, which proves to be not a special feature of quantum phenomena, but is shown to have an important counterpart in classical physics and its engineering applications too. Furthermore, it visualizes the physical results by means of simple analytical presentations, reduced sometimes to the elementary functions.