"Metamaterials have been actively researched for well over a decade, primarily by the optics and then the low power microwave communities. The high power microwave community was late to adopt them, primarily because of concerns of metamaterial survivability since they are inherently highly resonant structures. In the context of this book, metamaterial structures are broadly defined as periodic structures that might have halfwavelength periodicity or have sub-wavelength periodicity; they may be double positive and they may be double negative. Furthermore, it is shown how traditional periodic structures (used since the 1940s and 1950s) can have properties that, until recently, were attributed to double negative metamaterial structures"-- Provided by publisher.