Advances in Electromagnetic Properties of Materials and Related Nondestructive Testing

Dear Colleagues,

The electromagnetic (EM) properties of materials and the related nondestructive testing methods have for many years increasingly attracted the attention of industry engineers and scientists. We are currently observing the intense work carried out in research and development centers around the world on new composite materials, steel and polymer structures, or artificial (engineered) materials with unusual electromagnetic properties. New structures, as well as traditional ones, are finding more and more diverse applications and creating the possibility of constructing new electromagnetic devices, especially in wave problems (microwave, terahertz, IR, and visible frequency bands). This leads to the need to determine and test the electric and magnetic properties of the developed structures, as well as to test their continuity and detect possible inhomogeneity in a wide frequency range—from static fields to the ultraviolet band.

This Special Issue is devoted to advances in electromagnetic properties of materials in the wide frequency range (DC, low frequency, microwave, terahertz, IR). It refers to broad topics considering new structures, models, measuring concepts and systems, transducers, influence of external phenomena on electromagnetic properties, error and distortion analysis, and elimination of their sources in EM properties’ estimation.

This Special Issue will also focus on various methods of electromagnetic nondestructive testing, including well-established AC-magnetization-based methods, eddy current, microwave, terahertz methods, IR thermography, and slightly less common, but very valuable techniques such as dielectric spectroscopy, ferromagnetic resonance, and others.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Lopato
Guest Editor

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