Top-hat monopole antennas loaded with radially layered dielectric are analyzed using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Unlike the mode-matching method (MMM) (which was previously used for analyzing these antennas) the FDTD method enables us to study such structures accurately and easily. Using this method, results can be obtained in a wide frequency band by performing only one ti...

Subsurface sensing modalities such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) are increasingly being used to assess the condition of aging civil infrastructure by evaluating deterioration within roadways and bridges, and to monitor the security of national borders by the detection of underground tunnels. The need to address these issues is intensifying and, while valuable data are collected using nondes...

An optimal design of two dimensional (2D) hexagonal photonic bandgap (PBG) resonating micro-optical defect cavity on IV-VI lead salt material has been carried out. The nature of both the transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) band structure for the electromagnetic waves in the periodic triangular lattice pattern is formulated by the well-established plane wave expansion (PWE) met...

PURPOSE Numerical study of microwave imaging and microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging utilizes finite difference time domain (FDTD) analysis for simulation of microwave and acoustic interaction with biological tissues, which is time consuming due to complex grid-segmentation and numerous calculations, not straightforward due to no analytical solution and physical explanation, and incompatib...

to date, a number of numerical methods, including the popular finite-difference time domain (fdtd) technique, have been proposed to simulate ground-penetrating radar (gpr) responses. despite having a number of advantages, the finite-difference method also has pitfalls such as being very time consuming in simulating the most common case of media with high dielectric permittivity, causing the for...

In this paper, we have proposed two novel plasmonic demultiplexing structures based on metal-insulator-metal surfaces which, beside their compact size, have a very good transmission spectrum. The impact of the key internal parameters on the transmission spectrum is numerically analyzed by using the twodimensional (2D) finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The proposed structures could be...

We study light scattering by cylindrical multilayer structures containing Kerr-type nonlinear materials. We develop a new semi-analytical method for solving such nonlinear problems by reducing the original 2D system by a 1D nonlinear Helmholtz equation. We apply our method for the case of wave scattering by the core-shell metal-dielectric nanowire and show that the nonlinearity allows us to con...