Arthur D. Yaghjian

Arthur David Yaghjian (born January 1, 1943) is an American electrical engineer, who is best known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory and its applications.

Arthur David Yaghjian
Born	(1943-01-01) January 1, 1943 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Alma mater	Brown University
Awards	IEEE APS Distinguished Achievement Award (2021) IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering Antenna theory
Institutions	National Institute of Standards and Technology Air Force Research Laboratory
Thesis	Hybrid modes and the dielectric rod antenna (1969)

A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Yaghjian received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1964, 1966, and 1969, respectively. Briefly acting as an instructor at Tougaloo College and Hampton University, he joined the Electromagnetics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1971. In 1983, he became a research scientist at the Electromagnetics Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he worked until 1996. He held guest professorships at IIT Kharagpur in 1987, Technical University of Denmark in 1989 and University of Siena in 2007. He has been working as an independent consultant since then.

Yaghjian's contributions include probe-compensated near-field antenna measurements, theory of electromagnetic fields in metamaterials, dyadic Green's functions and analysis of electrically small antennas. Being a Life Fellow of the IEEE and member of URSI, Yaghjian is the recipient of 2021 IEEE APS Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2022, he received the IEEE Electromagnetics Award "for contributions to fundamental electromagnetic theory and its applications to near-field antenna measurements."

Selected publications

Journal articles

• Yaghjian, A.D. (1980). "Electric dyadic Green's functions in the source region". Proceedings of the IEEE. 68 (2): 248–263. doi:10.1109/PROC.1980.11620.
• Yaghjian, A. (1986). "An overview of near-field antenna measurements". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 34 (1): 30–45. doi:10.1109/TAP.1986.1143727.
• Shore, R. A.; Yaghjian, A. D. (1988). "Incremental diffraction coefficients for planar surfaces". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 36 (1): 55–70. doi:10.1109/8.1075.
• Hansen, T. B.; Yaghjian, A. D. (1994). "Planar near-field scanning in the time domain .1. Formulation". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 42 (9): 1280–1291. doi:10.1109/8.318649.
• Yaghjian, A. D.; Best, S. R. (2005). "Impedance, bandwidth, and Q of antennas". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 53 (4). doi:10.1109/TAP.2005.844443.
• Yaghjian, A. D.; Maci, S. (2008). "Alternative derivation of electromagnetic cloaks and concentrators". New Journal of Physics. 10: 115022. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/11/115022.
• Yaghjian, A. D.; O'Donnell, T. H.; Altshuler, E. E.; Best, S. R. (2008). "Electrically small supergain end-fire arrays". Radio Science. 43 (3): 1–13. arXiv:0708.1988. doi:10.1029/2007RS003747.
• Yaghjian, Arthur D.; Stuart, Howard R. (2010). "Lower bounds on the Q of electrically small dipole antennas". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 58 (10): 3114–3121. doi:10.1109/TAP.2010.2055790.

Books

• Yaghjian, Arthur D. (1992). Relativistic Dynamics of a Charged Sphere: Updating the Lorentz-Abraham Model (1 ed.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-031-06066-3.
• Hansen, Thorkild B.; Yaghjian, Arthur D. (1999). Plane-Wave Theory of Time-Domain Fields: Near-Field Scanning Applications. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780780334281.