Inverse design of nanophotonic structures using complementary convex optimization

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3793-3804

  Lu, Jesse ^a   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; INVERSE DESIGN METHODS; INVERSE DESIGNS; NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES; RESONANT FIELDS;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION;

NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77149156292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003793     Document Type: Article

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