Analysis of dielectric photonic-crystal problems with MLFMA and Schur-complement preconditioners

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 888-897

  Ergül, Özgür ^a   Malas, Tahir ^b   Gürel, Levent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA); photonic crystals (PhCs); Schur complement preconditioners; surface integral equations (SIEs)

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHMS; PRECONDITIONERS; RIGOROUS SOLUTION; SCHUR COMPLEMENT; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS (SIES);

ALGORITHMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79952600765     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2106196     Document Type: Article

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