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Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) normally have fixed or moving structures (plates or array of thin beams) with cross-sections of the order of microns and lengths of the order of tens or hundreds of microns. Electrostatic forces play…

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The finite element methods (FEM) are important techniques in engineering for solving partial differential equations, but they depend heavily on element shape quality for stability and good performance. In this paper, we introduce the…

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A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is extended to one-dimensional(1D) systems. The basis functions here are taken to be the localized B-splines for the two finite non-periodic dimensions and the plane waves for the…

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Numerical calculation of modes in dispersive and absorptive systems is performed using the finite element method. The dispersion is tackled in the frame of an extension of Maxwell's equations where auxiliary fields are added to the…

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The last decade has seen a large increase in the number of electronic-structure calculations that involve adding a Hubbard term to the local density approximation band-structure Hamiltonian. The Hubbard term is then solved either at the…

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Daubechies wavelets are a powerful systematic basis set for electronic structure calculations because they are orthogonal and localized both in real and Fourier space. We describe in detail how this basis set can be used to obtain a highly…