Publications

Books

Y. Rahmat-Samii and E. Topsakal, Antenna and Sensor Technologies in Modern Medical Applications, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2021.
F. Yang and Y. Rahmat-Samii (Eds.), Surface Electromagnetics: With Applications in Antenna, Microwave, and Optical Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Wenhua Yu, Wenxing Li, Atef Elsherbeni, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Advanced Computational Electromagnetic Methods and Applications, Artech House, 2015.
F. Yang. and Y. Rahmat-Samii, Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Y. Rahmat-Samii and J. Kim, Implanted Antennas in Medical Wireless Communications, Synthesis Lectures on Antennas, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2006.
Y. Rahmat-Samii and E. Micheilssen, Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
D. J. Hoppe and Y. Rahmat-Samii, Impedance Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics, Taylor & Francis Publishers, 1995.

Book Chapters

A. Papathanasopoulos and Y. Rahmat‐Samii, "Fundamentals of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams," in Electromagnetic Vortices: Wave Phenomena and Engineering Applications, eds. Zhi Hao Jiang, Douglas H. Werner, pp.1-32, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2022.
L. Song and Y. Rahmat‐Samii, "Appendix A: A Representative Literature Review," in Antennas and Sensors for Medical Applications, eds. Y. Rahmat-Samii, E. Topsakal, pp.547-583, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2021.
D. Zhang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Ultraflexible Electrotextile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Radio‐Frequency Coils," in Antenna and Sensor Technologies in Modern Medical Applications, eds. Y. Rahmat-Samii, E. Topsakal, pp.11-41, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2021.
Y. Rahmat-Samii, V. Manohar and J.M. Kovitz, "Novel antenna concepts and developments for CubeSats," in Developments in Antenna Analysis and Design: Volume 2, eds. Raj Mittra IET, 2018.
L. Ukkonen and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Embroidered Textile Antennas for Body-Centric Wireless Identification and Sensing Devices," in Handbook of Antenna Technologies, eds. Z. N. Chen, Springer Science and Business Media, 2016.
H. Rajagopalan and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Electromagnetics of Body Area Networks: Antennas, Propagation, and RF Systems," in Electromagnetics of Body Area Networks: Antennas, Propagation, and RF Systems, eds. D. H. Werner, Z. H. Jiang, pp.87-129, Artech House, 2016.
Joshua M. Kovitz and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, "Novelties of Spectral Domain Analysis in Antenna Characterizations: Concept, Formulation, and Applications," in Advanced Computational Electromagnetics Methods and Applications, pp.1-82, Artech House, 2015.

Journal Papers

Y. Rahmat-Samii, DH. Werner, "A Comprehensive Review of Optimization Techniques in Electromagnetics: Past, Present, and Future ," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation , vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 3804 - 3818, May 2026.
B. Zhang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Data-Driven Neural Network Applied to Solving Maxwell’s Equations: A novel Fourier neural operator approach," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 58 - 71, April 2026.
S. Bagherkhani, Y. Rahmat-Samii, F. De Flaviis, "An Automated Dynamic Solution Space Adaptation in Particle Swarm Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 9523 - 9528, November 2025.
Z. Wang, R. Hensleigh, Z. Xu et al., "Ultra-light antennas via charge programmed deposition additive manufacturing," Nature Communications, vol. 16, no. 427, pp. , January 2025.
J. F Sauder, N. Chahat, R. E Hodges, Y. Rahmat-Samii, M. Thomson, "Design and Implementation of a Ka-band Folding Rib Mesh Antenna for CubeSats," AIAA Journal, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 309-322, January 2025.
S. Fu, L. Song, Y. Wang, J. Wang, D. Su, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Systematic Study of Wireless Link Frequency Selection Strategies for Miniaturized Backscattering Neural Implants," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (Early Access), vol. , no. , pp. 1-17, November 2024.
V. Manohar, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "On the Resolution of Near-Field Focused Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 1828-1833, November 2024.

Conference Papers

Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Advancing Biomedical and Sensing Antennas: The UCLA Antenna Lab Experience," in 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 155, Boulder, CO, USA, January 2026.
Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Tribute to the Legacy of Prof. Chalmers Butler: Revisiting Appearance of Edge/Wedge Conditions in MoM Solutions," in 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 62, Boulder, CO, USA, January 2026.
W. Hu and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Backlobe Analysis in Layer-Limited Transmissive Metasurface Antennas: Theory and Validation," in 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 46-47, Boulder, CO, USA, January 2026.
S. Ferrell and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "An Application of the Aperture Field Method for use in Studying Near-Field Properties of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams," in 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM),, pp. 43-44, Boulder, CO, USA, January 2026.
W. Hu, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Ka-Band Linearly Polarized High-Gain Transmitarray Design for CubeSat Integration Based on Double-Layer Ultrathin Kapton Membrane," in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/CNC-USNC-URSI), pp. 1099-1102, Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 2025.
V. Manohar, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Seed Prediction for Phase Retrieval Algorithms for Scanned Aperture Antennas Using Deep Learning," in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/CNC-USNC-URSI) , pp. 1503-1506, Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 2025.
V. Lee, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "An Application of CG-NUFFT to UAV-Based Amplitude-Only Near-Field Antenna Testing," in 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1-5, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2025.