The influences of the filling rate on the photonic band gap properties of the two dimensional hex photonic crystals are investigated using the finite-difference time-domain method. When the filling rate f varies from 0.227 to 0.735 reminding the refractive index as 5, the number of the photonic band gaps decreases from 5 to 2 bands, the width of the photonic band gap between the transmit peaks ...

We present an improved perfectly matched layer (PML) for the analysis of plasmonic structures, based on the manipulation of PML parameters. Two different types of stretched coordinate PML are employed sequentially in the spatial domain: a real stretched coordinate PML to increase the effective buffer space around plasmonic structures and a complex stretched coordinate PML to absorb outgoing wav...

Article history: Received 24 May 2010 Received in revised form 12 September 2010 Accepted 4 November 2010 Available online 27 November 2010

Optical performance of small pixel structures utilized in liquid crystal microdisplays may be affected by diffraction and multidimensional variations in liquid crystal director orientation. Modeling such structures may require more robust computational methods than existing onedimensional techniques. We present an implementation of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method suitable for analysis ...

We have designed a new type of optical channel drop filter (CDF) based on two dimensionaltriangular lattice photonic crystals. CDF operation is based on coupling to the photonic crystalwaveguide. The proposed structure is optimized to work as a CDF for obtaining the CDFcharacteristics and band structure of the filter the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method andplane wave expansion (PWE) ...

The scope of this paper is the time domain simulation of the sound field radiated by a string. Different time domain methods have been successfully implemented for string simulations. These methods not only perform realtime string sound synthesis, but also pressure and particle velocity generated around strings can be obtained. It is very useful to analyze the sound field interaction with exter...

This article shows the interfacial relation in electrodynamics shall be corrected in discrete grid form which can be seen as certain numerical dispersion beyond the usual bulk type. Furthermore we construct a lossy conductor model to illustrate how to simulate more general materials other than traditional PEC or simple dielectrics, by a new conformal FDTD method which main considers the effects...

In light of the promising results obtained by driving a lowcomplexity digital waveguide (DW) violin model with synthetic bowing gestures , we currently explore the possibilities of combining DW and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) frameworks to construct refined, yet efficient physical models of string quartet instruments. We extend previous approaches by combining a finite-width bow-string...

This paper presents a method for implementing off-grid boundary conditions (BCs) within Yee’s Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, without disturbing the existing uniform mesh or changing the standard FDTD code. Both perfect electric conductor (PEC) and perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) walls are considered. The field values at off-grid virtual boundaries are obtained by extrapolation of...