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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465343803321

Titolo

Advances in FDTD computational electrodynamics : photonics and nanotechnology / / Allen Taflove, editor ; Ardavan Oskooi and Steven G. Johnson, Coeditors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Artech House, , 2013

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2013]

ISBN

1-60807-171-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (639 p.)

Collana

Artech House antennas and propagation library

Disciplina

537.6

Soggetti

Nanophotonics

Maxwell equations - Numerical solutions

Photonics - Mathematical models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Advances in FDTD Computational Electrodynamics Photonics and Nanotechnology""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1 Parallel-Processing Three-Dimensional Staggered-Grid Local-Fourier-Basis PSTD Technique""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""1.2 MOTIVATION""; ""1.3 LOCAL FOURIER BASIS AND OVERLAPPING DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION""; ""1.4 KEY FEATURES OF THE SL-PSTD TECHNIQUE""; ""1.4.1 FFT on a Local Fourier Basis""; ""1.4.2 Absence of the Gibbs Phenomenon Artifact""; ""1.5 TIME-STEPPING RELATIONS FOR DIELECTRIC SYSTEMS""; ""1.6 ELIMINATION OF NUMERICAL PHASE VELOCITY ERROR FOR A MONOCHROMATIC EXCITATION""

""1.7 TIME-STEPPING RELATIONS WITHIN THE PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER ABSORBING OUTER BOUNDARY""""1.8 REDUCTION OF THE NUMERICAL ERROR IN THE NEAR-FIELD TO FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION""; ""1.9 IMPLEMENTATION ON A DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTER""; ""1.10 VALIDATION OF THE SL-PSTD TECHNIQUE""; ""1.10.1 Far-Field Scattering by a Plane-Wave-Illuminated Dielectric Sphere""; ""1.10.2 Far-Field Radiation from an Electric Dipole Embedded within a Double-Layered Concentric Dielectric



Sphere""; ""1.11 SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""

""Chapter 2 Unconditionally Stable Laguerre Polynomial-Based FDTD Method""""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 FORMULATION OF THE CONVENTIONAL 3-D LAGUERRE-BASED FDTD METHOD""; ""2.3 FORMULATION OF AN EFFICIENT 3-D LAGUERRE-BASED FDTD METHOD""; ""2.4 PML ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION""; ""2.5 NUMERICAL RESULTS""; ""2.5.1 Parallel-Plate Capacitor: Uniform 3-D Grid""; ""2.5.2 Shielded Microstrip Line: Graded Grid in One Direction""; ""2.5.3 PML Absorbing Boundary Condition Performance""; ""2.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

""Chapter 3 Exact Total-Field/Scattered-Field Plane-WaveSource Condition""""3.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""3.2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXACT TF/SF FORMULATION FOR FDTD""; ""3.3 BASIC TF/SF FORMULATION""; ""3.4 ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC CURRENT SOURCES AT THE TF/SF INTERFACE""; ""3.5 INCIDENT PLANE-WAVE FIELDS IN A HOMOGENEOUS BACKGROUND MEDIUM""; ""3.6 FDTD REALIZATION OF THE BASIC TF/SF FORMULATION""; ""3.7 ON CONSTRUCTING AN EXACT FDTD TF/SF PLANE-WAVE SOURCE""; ""3.8 FDTD DISCRETE PLANE-WAVE SOURCE FOR THE EXACT TF/SF FORMULATION""; ""3.9 AN EFFICIENT INTEGER MAPPING""

""3.10 BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND VECTOR PLANE-WAVE POLARIZATION""""3.11 REQUIRED CURRENT DENSITIES Jinc AND Minc""; ""3.12 SUMMARY OF METHOD""; ""3.13 MODELING EXAMPLES""; ""3.14 DISCUSSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 4 Electromagnetic Wave Source Conditions""; ""4.1 OVERVIEW""; ""4.2 INCIDENT FIELDS AND EQUIVALENT CURRENTS""; ""4.2.1 The Principle of Equivalence""; ""4.2.2 Discretization and Dispersion of Equivalent Currents""; ""4.3 SEPARATING INCIDENT AND SCATTERED FIELDS""; ""4.4 CURRENTS AND FIELDS: THE LOCAL DENSITY OF STATES""

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the current state-of-the-art in formulating and implementing computational models of light with materials such as silicon and gold at the nanoscale. Maxwell's equations are solved using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. It will help you understand the latest developments in computational modeling of nanoscale optical microscopy and microchip lithography. You will also explore cutting-edge details in modeling nanoscale plasmonics, including nonlocal dielectric functions, molecular interactions, and multi-level semiconductor gain. Other topics include nanoscale biophotonics, especially for detecting early-stage cancers, and quantum vacuum, including the Casimir effect and blackbody radiation. --