Physics of negative refraction and negative index materials : optical and electronic aspects and deversified approaches

Negative Refraction of Electromagnetic and Electronic Waves in Uniform Media.- Anisotropic Field Distributions in Left-Handed Guided Wave Electronic Structures and Negative Refractive Bicrystal Heterostructures.- "Left-Handed" Magnetic Granular Composites.- Spatial Dispersion, Polaritons, and Negative Refraction.- Negative Refraction in Photonic Crystals.- Negative Refraction and Subwavelength Focusing in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals.- Negative Refraction and Imaging with Quasicrystals.- Generalizing the Concept of Negative Medium to Acoustic Waves.- Experiments and Simulations of Microwave Negative Refraction in Split Ring and Wire Array Negative Index Materials, 2D Split-Ring Resonator and 2D Metallic Disk Photonic Crystals.- Super Low Loss Guided Wave Bands Using Split Ring Resonator-Rod Assemblies as Left-Handed Materials.- Development of Negative Index of Refraction Metamaterials with Split Ring Resonators and Wires for RF Lens Applications.- Nonlinear Effects in Left-Handed Metamaterials.