Symmetry in Electromagnetic Engineering and Optics: Latest Advances and Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

The idea of symmetry, aided by the formalism of modern abstract algebra, has served as the framework through which various physical disciplines, from quantum mechanics to crystallography, have been fully developed. Additionally, symmetry plays a relevant role in electromagnetics; to elucidate this point, it suffices to consider the concepts of duality between magnetic and electric sources, reciprocity, and equivalence. In addition, symmetry comes into play through the geometrical characteristics of the objects involved in the electromagnetic scenario. Currently, the sciences of the natural world exploit symmetry to model nature based on observations of symmetry in molecules, crystals and elementary particles, for example. In contrast, electromagnetic engineering and optics exploit this concept more extensively, namely, for modelling the physical phenomena and the apparatus’ behaviour and for characterising new types of devices whose potential properties are not apparent without using this abstraction.

The Special Issue would like to collect the latest advances and prospects of the mathematical techniques related to symmetry in the fields of electromagnetic engineering and optics. Scholars in related areas are invited to contribute their latest research results to this Special Issue.

Topics of the research papers include but are not limited to:

• Microwave and Optics devices;
• Wave propagation and Scattering;
• Antennas;
• Electromagnetic media;
• Metamaterials.

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Angiulli
Guest Editor

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