Automatic calculation of band diagrams of photonic crystals using the multiple multipole method

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1 A, 2004, Pages 46-54

  Smajic, Jasmin ^a   Hafner, Christian ^a   Erni, Daniel ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Band diagram; Eigenvalue analysis; Multiple multipole program; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BAND DIAGRAMS; MULTIPLE MULTIPOLE METHODS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANE WAVE METHODS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 1942488221     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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