The Advancing World of Applied Electromagnetics

Introduction.- Five decades of research in electromagnetics.- Millimeter-wave endfire single-fed circularly polarized AFTSA-SC antenna.- High-performance hybrid smart antenna array for advanced wireless communications.- Antenna arrays for physical-layer-based directional networking technology.- Electrically small antennas.- Metamaterial-based antennas and a metasurface-based terahertz frequency splitter.- Electromagnetics research and challenges for tactical communication.- Antenna miniaturization in mobile communication systems.- Making ultra-wideband antennas unidirectional.- Radar reflectors mounted on power boats.- Radio propagation modeling in complex environments.- Radio propagation modeling: Unified view of the ray tracing image method across emerging indoor and outdoor environments.- Wireless performance in dense-transceiver scenarios to enable context-aware scenarios.- Bioelectromagnetic dosimetry: Simulating electromagnetic fields in the human body.- The genesis of microwave imaging as medical diagnosis modality.- Real-time quantitative reconstruction methods in microwave imaging.- Electromagnetics in medical applications: The cardiopulmonary stethoscope journey.- The Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem and the extended boundary condition method.- Propagator methods in electromagnetics.- Non-Hermitian metamaterials.- Unidirectional, defect-immune and topologically protected electromagnetic surface waves.- Single-band and multiband angular filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystals and one-layer gratings.- Construction of parts of the universe on tabletops.- Electromagnetics education: Past, present, and future directions.- Curriculum Vitae of Magdy Fahmy Iskander.

Akhlesh Lakhtakia received the BTech (1979) and DSc (2006) degrees from the Banaras Hindu University and the MS (1981) and PhD (1983) degrees from the University of Utah. In 1983 he joined the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University as a post-doctoral research scholar, where he became a Distinguished Professor in 2003, the Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in 2006, and the Evan Pugh University Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics in 2018. His current research interests include electromagnetic scattering, surface multiplasmonics, bioreplication, forensic science, solar energy, sculptured thin films, mimumes, and international higher education in STEM disciplinesHe has been elected a Fellow of Optical Society of America (1992), SPIE-The International Society for Optics and Photonics(1996), Institute of Physics (UK) (1996), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010), American Physical Society (2012), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2016), Royal Society of Chemistry (2016), Royal Society of Arts (2017), and Sigma Xi (2023). He has been designated a Distinguished Alumnus of both of his almae matres at the highest level. Awards at Penn State include: Outstanding Research Award (1996), Outstanding Advising Award (2005), Premier Research Award (2008), and Outstanding Teaching Award (2016), and the Faculty Scholar Medal (2005). He received the 2010 Technical Achievement Award from SPIE, the 2016 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, the 2022 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, and the 2022 Radio Club of America Lifetime Achievement Award. He is presently a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2022-24) and a Jefferson Science Fellow at the US State Department (2022-23).

Dr. Cynthia Furse is  a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. She