List of Figures 2.1 Left-handed system. 2.3 Modelling different antennas using prolate and oblate spheroids. 2.4 EM waves reflected/transmitted at air/DNG MTMs interface. 151 153 155 2.2 Prolate and oblate spheroidal coordinate systems. 170 172 180 3.1 Geometry of the problem. 3.2 Normalized bistatic cross section for a conducting quasi-sphere (a2/b2 == 1.0001) with dielectric coating (crl == cr2 == 2.0 and Mrl == M r 2 == 1.0). 3.3 Normalized backscattering cross section for a conducting quasi-sphere (a2/b2 == 1.0001, a2 == 27 mm, ao == 30 mm) with dielectric coating