Surface Integral Equation-Method of Moments With Multiregion Basis Functions Applied to Plasmonics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2141-2152

  Solís, Diego Martínez ^a   Taboada, Jose Manuel ^b   Basteiro, Fernando Obelleiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

method of moments; numerical analysis; plasmonics; Surface integral equations

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONS;

BASIS FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY SURFACES; COMPLEX COMPOSITES; HOMOGENEOUS PENETRABLE BODIES; LINE JUNCTIONS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84929192866     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2406891     Document Type: Article

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