Title
Effective Permittivity for FDTD Calculation of Plasmonic Materials.
Abstract
We present a new effective permittivity (EP) model to accurately calculate surface plasmons (SPs) using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The computational representation of physical structures with curved interfaces causes inherent errors in FDTD calculations, especially when the numerical grid is coarse. Conventional EP models improve the errors, but they are not effective for SPs because the SP resonance condition determined by the original permittivity is changed by the interpolated EP values. We perform FDTD simulations using the proposed model for an infinitely-long silver cylinder and gold sphere, and the results are compared with Mie theory. Our model gives better accuracy than the conventional staircase and EP models for SPs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3390/mi3010168
MICROMACHINES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
effective permittivity,FDTD,surface plasmon,metamaterial
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2072-666X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naoki Okada100.34
James B. Cole2514.58