Volumetric method of moments and conceptual multilevel building blocks for nanotopologies

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 267-282

  Zheng, X ^a   Valev, V K ^a   Verellen, N ^a,b   Jeyaram, Y ^a   Silhanek, A V ^a,c   Metlushko, V ^d   Ameloot, M ^e   Vandenbosch, G A E ^a   Moshchalkov, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^e HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Method of moments (MoM); nanostructures; optical frequencies; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; MULTI-LEVEL BUILDINGS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PLASMONICS; SINGULAR FIELDS; VOLUMETRIC METHODS;

NANOSTRUCTURES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 84857266823     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2185222     Document Type: Article

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