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The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is a well-known technique for the analysis of quantum devices. It solves a discretized Schrodinger equation in an explicitly iterative process. However, the method requires the spatial grid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Frederick Ira Moxley , Weizhong Dai

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is applied for modelling of wire media as artificial dielectrics. Both frequency dispersion and spatial dispersion effects in wire media are taken into account using the auxiliary differential…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yan Zhao , Pavel Belov , Yang Hao

In this paper, a spatially dispersive finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method to model wire media is developed and validated. Sub-wavelength imaging properties of the finite wire medium slabs are examined. It is demonstrated that the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yan Zhao , Pavel A. Belov , Yang Hao

In this work, we present a numerical method that remedies the instabilities of the conventional FDTD approach for solving Maxwell's equations in a space-time dependent magneto-electric medium with direct application to the simulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jason Cornelius , Jinjie Liu , Moysey Brio

A simple method to describe spatially dispersive metasurfaces is proposed where the angle-dependent surface susceptibilities are explicitly used to formulate the zero thickness sheet model of practical metasurface structures. It is shown…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 João G. Nizer Rahmeier , Tom J. Smy , Jordan Dugan , Shulabh Gupta

This work theoretically and experimentally studies metasurfaces with spatially-discrete, traveling-wave modulation (SD-TWM). A representative metasurface is considered consisting of columns of time-modulated subwavelength unit cells,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Zhanni Wu , Cody Scarborough , Anthony Grbic

A modeling of metasurfaces in the finite element method (FEM) based on generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) is presented. The discontinuities in electromagnetic fields across a metasurface as represented by the GSTC are modeled…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Srikumar Sandeep , Jian Ming Jin , Christophe Caloz

With the advent of new fabrication technologies, time-varying metasurfaces have emerged as novel platforms for exotic waveform shaping in microwaves and optics, providing an additional degree of freedom to design dynamically controllable…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-18 Suat Barış İplikçioğlu , M. I. Aksun

We propose a novel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme for the solution of the Maxwell's equations in which linear dispersive effects are present. The method uses high-order accurate approximations in space and time for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Michael J. Jenkinson , Jeffrey W. Banks

The Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is a widely used numerical technique for solving Maxwell's equations, particularly in computational electromagnetics and photonics. It enables accurate modeling of wave propagation in complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yifei He , Måns I. Andersson , Stefano Markidis

We present a spectral-domain (SD) technique for the efficient analysis of metasurfaces. The metasurface is modeled by generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) as a zero-thickness sheet creating a discontinuity in the electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Nima Chamanara , Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

We present a generalized FDTD scheme to simulate moving electromagnetic structures with arbitrary space-time configurations. This scheme is a local adaptation and 2+1-dimensional extension of the uniform and 1+1-dimensional scheme recently…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Amir Bahrami , Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Zhiyu Li , Christophe Caloz

An accelerated analysis method for non-uniform metasurfaces in FDTD is presented for the first time. The non-uniform metasurfaces are modeled by a distribution of susceptibilities, homogenized parameters. Those susceptibilities are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Xiao Jia , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu , Christophe Caloz , Fan Yang

Huygens' metasurfaces have demonstrated almost arbitrary control over the shape of a scattered beam, however, its spatial profile is typically fixed at fabrication time. Dynamic reconfiguration of this beam profile with tunable elements…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Mingkai Liu , David A. Powell , Yair Zarate , Ilya V. Shadrivov

The calculation of the local density of states (LDOS) in lossy materials has long been disputed due to the divergence of the homogeneous Green function with equal space arguments. For arbitrary shaped lossy structures, such as those of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 C. Van Vlack , S. Hughes

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) is an effective algorithm for resolving Maxwell equations directly in time domain. Although FDTD has obtained sufficient development, there still exists some improvement space for it, such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Huicheng Guo , Henglei Du , Chengpu Liu

A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) numerical analysis is used to demonstrate that a toroidal solenoid, coaxial with an electric dipole, is a remarkable non-radiating configuration. It can be used to measure the dielectric permittivity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Boardman , K. Marinov , N. Zheludev , V. A. Fedotov

A more accurate, stable, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is developed for simulating Maxwell's equations with isotropic or anisotropic dielectric materials. This algorithm is in many cases more accurate than previous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory R. Werner , Carl A. Bauer , John R. Cary

A subcell technique for calculation of optical properties of graphene with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is presented. The technique takes into account the surface conductivity of graphene which allows the correct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Ilya Valuev , Sergei Belousov , Maria Bogdanova , Oleg Kotov , Yurii Lozovik

This work introduces a semi-analytical frequency-domain framework for the analysis of two-dimensional, time-modulated (2+1)-D metasurfaces controlled by PIN diodes. The formulation focuses on the unit-cell level, modeled as a waveguide…