A hybrid approach for solving coupled Maxwell and Schrödinger equations arising in the simulation of nano-devices

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 914-917

  Ahmed, Iftikhar ^a   Khoo, Eng Huat ^a   Li, Erping ^a   Mittra, Raj ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

CourantFriedrichLevy (CFL) limit; finite difference time domain (FDTD); hybrid; locally one dimensional FDTD (LOD FDTD)

Indexed keywords

COUPLED EQUATION; COURANTFRIEDRICHLEVY (CFL) LIMIT; DINGER EQUATION; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; FDTD METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); HYBRID; HYBRID APPROACH; LOCALLY ONE-DIMENSIONAL; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NANO-DEVICES; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 77957747704     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2076411     Document Type: Article

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