학술논문

Volumetric Method of Moments and Conceptual Multilevel Building Blocks for Nanotopologies
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Photonics Journal IEEE Photonics J. Photonics Journal, IEEE. 4(1):267-282 Feb, 2012
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Moment methods
Three dimensional displays
Microwave theory and techniques
Biomedical optical imaging
Communities
Finite difference methods
Nanostructures
Method of moments (MoM)
nanostructures
plasmonics
optical frequencies
Language
ISSN
1943-0655
1943-0647
Abstract
On the basis of the relationship between charge dimensionality and singular field behavior, it is proven that in a volumetric description of a volume current carrying topology, half rooftops of different binary hierarchical level are allowed without introducing numerical difficulties. This opens the possibility to use a very efficient multilevel hierarchical meshing scheme in a volumetric method-of-moments (V-MoM) algorithm. The new meshing scheme is validated by numerical calculations and experiments. It paves the way toward a much more efficient use of MoM in the description of arbitrarily shaped nanostructures at infrared and optical frequencies.