Books on Chiral Mediums

1. A. Lakhtakia, V.K. Varadan & V.V. Varadan, Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields in Chiral Media, Lecture Notes in Physics - 335, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer-Verlag (1989); 121 pages; ISBN: 3-540-51317-5 and 0-387-51317-5.
2. A. Lakhtakia (Editor), Selected Papers on Natural Optical Activity , Milestone Volume No. 15, Bellingham, WA: SPIE Optical Engineering Press (1990); 600 pages; ISBN: 0-8194-0435-7 and 0-8194-0436-5.
5. A. Lakhtakia, Beltrami Fields in Chiral Media, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. (1994); 530 pages; ISBN: 981-02-1403-0.

Journal Publications (1993 - )

186. A. Lakhtakia, 'Time-harmonic dyadic Green's functions for reflection and transmission by a chiral slab,' Archiv fü:r Elektronik und Übertragungstechnik, 47, 1993, 1 - 5.
187. A.K. Bhattacharyya & A. Lakhtakia, 'Initial work on microstrip antennas with chiral substrate: Beltrami field formulation in a generalized cylindrical system,' Archiv für Elektronik und Übertragungstechnik, 47, 1993, 43 - 45.
189. R.A. Depine, A.N. Fantino & A. Lakhtakia, 'A parametric study of light reflection at the planar interface of a dielectric-magnetic and a magnetic chiral medium,' Journal of Modern Optics, 40, 1993, 219 - 231.
190. A. Lakhtakia, V.K. Varadan & V.V. Varadan, 'On the Maxwell-Garnett model for chiral composites,' Journal of Materials Research, 8, 1993, 917 - 922.
195. A. Lakhtakia & B. Shanker, 'Beltrami fields within continuous source regions, volume integral equations, scattering algorithms, and the extended Maxwell-Garnett model,' International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics in Materials, 4, 1993, 65 - 82.
206. B. Shanker & A. Lakhtakia, 'Extended Maxwell Garnett model for chiral-in-chiral composites,' Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 26, 1993, 1746 - 1758.
211. A. Lakhtakia, 'Application of the Waterman-Truell approach for chiral composites,' International Journal of Electronics, 75, 1993, 1243 - 1249.
215. A. Lakhtakia, 'On the crucial role of impedance-matching in chirolens design,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 7, 1994, 66 - 68.
230. A. Lakhtakia & W.S. Weiglhofer, 'Are linear, nonreciprocal, biisotropic media forbidden?' IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 42, 1994, 1715 - 1716.
234. A. Lakhtakia, 'The Tellegen medium is "a Boojum, you see",' International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 15, 1994, 1625 - 1630.
237. S. Asghar & A. Lakhtakia, 'Planewave diffraction by a perfectly conducting halfplane in a homogeneous biisotropic medium,' International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics in Materials, 5, 1994, 181 -188.
242. A. Lakhtakia, 'On extinction in a homogeneous chiral medium,' Optik , 99, 1995, 35 - 39.
246. B. Michel & A. Lakhtakia, 'Strong-property-fluctuation theory for homogenizing chiral particulate composites,' Physical Review E, 51, 1995, 5701 - 5707.
247. F.G. Bass, G.Ya. Slepyan, S.A. Maksimenko & A. Lakhtakia, 'Time-domain Beltrami-Maxwell solitons in certain nonlinear chiral media,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 9, 1995, 218 - 221.
248. A. Lakhtakia, 'Tellegen media: a fecund but incorrect speculation,' Speculations in Science and Technology, 18, 1995, 1 - 8.
252. F. Guerin & A. Lakhtakia, 'On the frequency-dependence of the chirality pseudoscalar of a chiral medium,' Journal de Physique III France, 5, 1995, 913 - 918.
256. G.Ya. Slepyan, S.A. Maksimenko, F.G. Bass & A. Lakhtakia, 'Nonlinear electromagnetics in chiral media: Self-action of waves,' Physical Review E, 52, 1995, 1049 - 1058.
261. A. Lakhtakia & W. S. Weiglhofer, 'Comment on "Are nonreciprocal bi-isotropic media forbidden indeed?",' IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 43, 1995, 2722 - 2723.
265. W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia, 'Causality and natural optical activity (chirality),' Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 13, 1996, 385 - 386.
268. A. Lakhtakia, 'On homogenization of impedance-matched chiral-in-chiral composites,' Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 29, 1996, 957 - 962.
275. B. Michel & A. Lakhtakia, 'On the application of strong property fluctuation theory for homogenizing chiral-in-chiral composites,' Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 29, 1996, 1431 - 1440.
282. W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia, 'Mediation of nonlinear polarization by the magnetic field in a composite medium with a chiral component,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 13, 1996, 285 - 287.
294. W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia, 'On the non-existence of linear non-reciprocal bi-isotropic (NRBI) media,' Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 30, 1997, 2597 - 2600.
295. A. Lakhtakia & W.S. Weiglhofer, 'On the application of duality to Tellegen media,' Electromagnetics, 17, 1997, 199 - 204.
296. S.A. Maksimenko, G. Ya. Slepyan & A. Lakhtakia, 'Gaussian pulse propagation in a linear, lossy chiral medium,' Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 14, 1997, 894 - 900.
315. W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia, 'Further remarks on the nonexistence of linear nonreciprocal bi-isotropic (NRBI) media,' Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 31, 1998, 1113 - 1114.
324. W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia, 'The correct constitutive relations of chiroplasmas and chiroferrites,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 17, 1998, 405 - 408.
326. A. Lakhtakia & W.S. Weiglhofer, 'Remarks on the nonexistence of linear Tellegen media (in Russian),' Radiotekhnika i Elektronika, 43, 1998, 494 - 495.
329. W.S. Weiglhofer, A. Lakhtakia & B. Michel, 'On the constitutive parameters of a chiroferrite composite medium,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 18, 1998, 342 - 345.
332. W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia, 'The Post constraint revisited,' Archiv fuer Elektronik und Uebertragungstechnik, 52, 1998, 276 - 279.
335. A. Lakhtakia & W.S. Weiglhofer, 'Are field derivatives needed in linear constitutive relations?' International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 19, 1998, 1073 - 1082.
336. A. Lakhtakia, 'Isorefractive chiral media,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 19, 1998, 350 - 352.
347. B. Michel & A. Lakhtakia, 'The covariance function, bilocal approximation, and homogenization of chiral-in-chiral composite materials,' Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 32, 1999, 404 - 406.
349. A. Lakhtakia, 'Cross-refractive chiral media and constitutive contrasts,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 20, 1999, 337 - 339.
409. A. Lakhtakia, 'Beltrami field phasors are eigenvectors of 6x6 linear constitutive dyadics,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 30, 2001, 127 - 128.
428. A. Lakhtakia, 'Conditions for circularly polarized plane wave propagation in a linear bianisotropic medium,' Electromagnetics, 22, 2002, 123 - 127.
431. A. Lakhtakia, 'Reversed circular dichroism of isotropic chiral mediums with negative real permeability and permittivity,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 33, 2002, 96 - 97.
452. J.A. Sherwin & A. Lakhtakia, 'Nominal model for the optical response of a chiral sculptured thin film infiltrated with an isotropic chiral fluid,' Optics Communications, 214, 2002, 231 - 245.
467. J.A. Sherwin & A. Lakhtakia, 'Nominal model for the optical response of a chiral sculptured thin film infiltrated by an isotropic chiral fluid --- oblique incidence,' Optics Communications, 222, 2003, 305 - 329.
584. T.G. Mackay & A. Lakhtakia, 'Simultaneous negative- and positive-phase-velocity propagation in an isotropic chiral medium,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 49, 2007, 1245 - 1246.
596. T.G. Mackay & A. Lakhtakia, 'Negative- and positive-phase-velocity propagation in an isotropic chiral medium moving at constant velocity,' Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 49, 2007, 2640 - 2643.
632. Á. Gómez, A. Lakhtakia, J. Margineda, G.J. Molinas-Cuberos, Ma J. Núñez, J. A. Saiz Ipiña, A. Vegas & M.A. Solano, 'Full-wave hybrid technique for 3-D isotropic-chiral-material discontinuities in rectangular waveguides: Theory and experiment,' IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 56, 2008, 2815 - 2825.
646. A. Lakhtakia, 'Remarks on the current status of the Post constraint,' Optik, 120, 2009, 422 - 424.
648. S.A. Ramakrishna & A. Lakhtakia, 'Spectral shifts in the properties of a periodic multilayered stack due to isotropic chiral layers,' Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 11, 2009, 074001.
672. T.G. Mackay & A. Lakhtakia (Invited Paper), 'Negatively refracting chiral metamaterials: a review,' SPIE Reviews, 1, 2009, 018003.
679. Á. Gómez, A. Lakhtakia, A. Vegas & M.A. Solano, 'Hybrid technique for analysing metallic waveguides containing isotropic chiral materials,' IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, 4, 2010, 305 - 315.
722. N.L. Tsitsas, A. Lakhtakia & D.J. Frantzeskakis, 'Vector solitons in nonlinear isotropic chiral metamaterials,' Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 44, 2011, 435203 [doi:10.1088/1751-8113/44/43/435203].
Updated on: May 26, 2012