Modified Combined Tangential Formulation for Stable and Accurate Analysis of Plasmonic Structures

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  • Barışcan Karaosmanoğlu Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Özgür Ergül Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Keywords:

Plasmonic problems, scattering, surface integral equations

Abstract

We consider a modified combined tangential formulation (MCTF) for stable and accurate analysis of plasmonic problems involving metallic objects modeled as penetrable bodies. For a wide range of negative real permittivity values, corresponding to varying characteristics of metals at THz, infrared, and visible frequencies, MCTF provides accurate solutions in comparison to the conventional formulations for penetrable objects. We further show that, for structures with subwavelength dimensions, penetrable models formulated with MCTF can be essential for accurate analysis, rather than the perfectly conducting formulations, even at the lower THz frequencies.

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Published

2019-05-01

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Barışcan Karaosmanoğlu and Özgür Ergül, “Modified Combined Tangential Formulation for Stable and Accurate Analysis of Plasmonic Structures”, ACES Journal, vol. 34, no. 05, pp. 811–814, May 2019.

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