Creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient is a dream of engineers in mechanics, electrodynamics, materials sciences, and other areas. As the only comprehensive book available presenting this method, this revised and expanded edition of Creating Materials with a Desired Refraction Coefficient includes three new chapters and provides a recipe for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient and solves the many-body wave scattering problem for many small impedance bodies. The physical assumptions presented make the multiple scattering effects essential and based on this theory, a recipe for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient is provided.

Technical problems are described which, when solved, make this theory practically applicable. It is emphasized that a practical method for producing small impedance particles with a prescribed boundary impedance is very important. This text provides physical and mathematical arguments for the possibility to produce such particles. Inverse scattering with non-over-determined scattering data is also discussed.