Thursday, May 17, 2012

0907.3699 (Joao T. Costa et al.)

Finite-difference frequency-domain method for the extraction of
effective parameters of metamaterials
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Joao T. Costa, Mario G. Silveirinha, Stanislav I. Maslovski
Here, we report a numerical implementation of the nonlocal homogenization approach recently proposed in [M. Silveirinha, Phys. Rev. B 75, 115104 (2007)], using the finite difference frequency-domain method to discretize the Maxwell-Equations. We apply the developed formalism to characterize the nonlocal dielectric function of several structured materials formed by dielectric and metallic particles, and in particular, we extract the local permittivity, permeability and magnetoelectric coupling parameters when these are meaningful. It is shown that the finite differences frequency domain implementation of the homogenization method is stable and robust, yielding very accurate results.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3699

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