Recent Developments in FDTD Modeling of Dispersive and Dispersion-Engineered Materials

Author

Jung, Kyung-Young ; Teixeira, Fernando L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

fYear

2006

fDate

9-14 July 2006

Firstpage

4607

Lastpage

4610

Abstract

This paper discusses the recent developments on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in highly dispersive regimes. Focus is given on two examples of interest: EM energy propagation via plasmon resonances in metal nanoparticles (MNPs) chains, and frozen modes in nonreciprocal MPCs. In the former case, J-E-H FDTD formulations with Drude dispersion model are employed to analyze nanoscale chains comprising of gold nanospheres. In the latter case, D-H and B-E FDTD formulations associated with general constitutive relations are extended to verify the striking properties of nonreciprocal MPCs

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; dispersive media; electromagnetic wave propagation; finite difference time-domain analysis; magnetic materials; nanoparticles; photonic crystals; plasmons; B-E FDTD formulations; D-H FDTD formulations; Drude dispersion model; EM energy propagation; FDTD modeling; J-E-H FDTD formulations; dispersion-engineered materials; dispersive materials; finite-difference time-domain method; frozen modes; general constitutive relations; gold nanospheres; magnetic photonic crystal; metal nanoparticles chains; nanoscale chains; nonreciprocal MPC; plasmon resonances; Dispersion; Equations; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Magnetic materials; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Plasmons; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0123-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2006.1711664

Filename

1711664