Time domain simulation of electromagnetic cloaking structures with TLM method

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6461-6470

  Blanchard, Cédric ^a,b   Portí, Jorge ^a   Wu, Bae Ian ^b   Morente, Juan Antonio ^a   Salinas, Alfonso ^a   Kong, Jin Au ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING STRUCTURES; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING (TLM) METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; LIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43049143085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006461     Document Type: Article

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