A level-set procedure for the design of electromagnetic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6693-6702

  Zhou, Shiwei ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Sun, Guangyong ^a,b   Li, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE INTERFACES; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SET THEORY; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

CURRENT FLOWS; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; KEY TOPICS; LEVEL SETS; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; METAL PHASIS; METAL SURFACES; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; NORMAL DIRECTION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD; U-SHAPED;

CAPILLARITY;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; PERMEABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 77950252041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006693     Document Type: Article

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