A history of time domain electromagnetics - a voyage back in time

Abstract

This paper retraces fifty years of research in electromagnetic fields and computational electromagnetics from an autobiographical perspective. It begins with early work on microwave ferrites at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Grenoble during the 1960s that laid the foundations for subsequent work on planar and quasi-planar circuits during the 1970s at the University of Ottawa. The 1980s and 1990s saw the emergence of computing in electromagnetics as a new pillar of microwave and millimetre-wave engineering, while the first decade of the 2nd millennium brought a new kind of man-made metamaterials with exciting new properties and potential for novel devices. Research activities conducted during these years at the Universities of Ottawa and Victoria in Canada, and finally at the IHPC in Singapore, will form the subject of this review.