Dispersive contour-path algorithm for the two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7397-7406

  Mohammadi, Ahmad ^a   Jalali, Tahmineh ^a   Agio, Mario ^b  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RESONANCE;

DISPERSIVE CONTOUR-PATH (DCP); LINEAR DISPERSIVE MATERIALS; PLASMON SPECTRA;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43849083705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007397     Document Type: Article

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