The Second-Order Condition for the Dielectric Interface Orthogonal to the Yee-Lattice Axis in the FDTD Scheme

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 359-361

  Hirono, T ^a   Shibata, Y ^a   Lui, W W ^b   Seki, S ^a   Yoshikuni, Y ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Lightwave Microsystems   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic fields; FDTD methods; numerical analysis; time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC INTERFACE ORTHOGONALS; YEE-LATTICE AXIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 0034269992     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.867850     Document Type: Article

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