Influence of the edge meshes on the accuracy of the coupled-dipole approximation

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 1674-1676

  Piller, Nicolas B ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

COUPLED DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; EDGE MESH;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY;

OPTICS;

EID: 0031272851     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.001674     Document Type: Article

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