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Two developments occurred in the last five decades to revolutionize the application of electromagnetism. The first was the proliferation of digital computers from the 1970s that allows rapid calculations to solve a variety of electromagnetic problems. Scattering of electromagnetic waves by a diverse variety of objects can be investigated today. The scattering object can be homogeneous or heterogeneous; isotropic, biisotropic, anisotropic, or bianisotropic; and linear or nonlinear. Its dimensions can be small, similar, or large in comparison to the wavelength. Even though most scattering problems are still solved in the frequency domain, time-domain scattering problems are also very tractable today.
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Lakhtakia, A., Furse, C.M. (2018). Introduction. In: Lakhtakia, A., Furse, C. (eds) The World of Applied Electromagnetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58403-4_1
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