Electromagnetics Literature Guide

Historical portrait of James Clerk Maxwell. — James Clerk Maxwell represents the union of mathematical theory and physical insight that underlies much of the literature collected here. Image source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

This page groups sources by domain and source type so that foundational literature, modern reviews, representative experiments, institutional resources, and metrology sources remain easy to locate.

Science history visual notes

The Day We Found the Universe — visual notes — a long-term-memory timeline and detailed study notes on Leavitt, Hertzsprung, Slipher, Shapley, Curtis, van Maanen, Hubble, Lemaître, the Great Debate, the Andromeda Cepheid, and the emergence of the expanding-universe picture.

General electromagnetics

Open university and institutional resources

MIT OpenCourseWare — Electromagnetics and Applications — fields through communication systems, antennas, sensors, motors and optics.
MIT OpenCourseWare — graduate Electromagnetics — advanced EM with demonstrations and computational material.

Radar

MIT Lincoln Laboratory — Introduction to Radar Systems — open lecture series covering radar-system concepts and technologies.

Quantum optics and atom–field interaction

M. Fleischhauer, A. Imamoglu and J. P. Marangos, “Electromagnetically induced transparency,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 633 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.77.633

Rydberg atoms and RF sensing

J. A. Sedlacek et al., “Microwave electrometry with Rydberg atoms in a vapour cell using bright atomic resonances,” Nature Physics 8, 819–824 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2423
C. L. Holloway et al., work on atom-based RF electric-field metrology and Rydberg EIT/Autler–Townes sensing.
NIST Electromagnetic Fields Group resources: https://www.nist.gov/ctl/rf-technology-division/electromagnetic-fields-group

Atomic magnetometry

D. Budker and M. Romalis, “Optical Magnetometry,” Nature Physics 3, 227–234 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys566
W. Happer, “Optical Pumping,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 44, 169 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.44.169
I. K. Kominis et al., “A subfemtotesla multichannel atomic magnetometer,” Nature 422, 596–599 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01484

Radiation and particle detectors

W. Shockley, “Currents to Conductors Induced by a Moving Point Charge,” J. Appl. Phys. 9, 635–636 (1938).
S. Ramo, “Currents Induced by Electron Motion,” Proc. IRE 27, 584–585 (1939).

Spacecraft, EMC and metrology

NASA JSC — EMI/EMC — spacecraft EMC engineering, simulation and test.
NIST — Electromagnetic Field Strength Metrology — SI-linked field-strength calibration and EMC measurement science.
NIST Electromagnetic Fields Group — antenna, radiated-field and quantum-based field metrology.

Presentation companion

The Presentations & Lectures page contains visual teaching material from MIT, CERN, NASA and universities.