Master powerful new modeling tools that let you quantify and represent metamaterial properties with never-before accuracy. This first-of-its-kind book brings you up to speed on breakthrough finite-difference time-domain techniques for modeling metamaterial characteristics and behaviors in electromagnetic systems. This practical resource comes complete with sample FDTD scripts to help you pave the way to new metamaterial applications and advances in antenna, microwave, and optics engineering. You get in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art FDTD modeling techniques and applications for electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures, left-handed metamaterials (LHMs), wire medium, metamaterials for optics, and other practical metamaterials. You find steps for computing dispersion diagrams, dealing with material dispersion properties, and verifying the left-handedness. Moreover, this comprehensive volume offers guidance for handling the unique properties possessed by metamaterials, including how to define material parameters, characterize the interface of metamaterial slabs, and quantify their spatial as well as frequency dispersion characteristics. The book also presents conformal and dispersive FDTD modeling of electromagnetic cloaks, perfect lens, and plasmonic waveguides, as well as other novel antenna, microwave, and optical applications. Over 190 illustrations support key topics throughout the book.

The purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date introduction to the time-domain finite element methods for Maxwell’s equations involving metamaterials. Since the first successful construction of a metamaterial with both negative permittivity and permeability in 2000, the study of metamaterials has attracted significant attention from researchers across many disciplines. Thanks to enormous efforts on the part of engineers and physicists, metamaterials present great potential applications in antenna and radar design, sub-wavelength imaging, and invisibility cloak design. Hence the efficient simulation of electromagnetic phenomena in metamaterials has become a very important issue and is the subject of this book, in which various metamaterial modeling equations are introduced and justified mathematically. The development and practical implementation of edge finite element methods for metamaterial Maxwell’s equations are the main focus of the book. The book finishes with some interesting simulations such as backward wave propagation and time-domain cloaking with metamaterials.

Advanced FDTD Methods: Parallelization, Acceleration, and Engineering Applications -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Computational Electromagnetic Methods -- 1.1 FDTD METHOD -- 1.1.1 FDTD Update Equations -- 1.1.2 Stability Analysis -- 1.1.3 Boundary Conditions -- 1.2 METHOD OF MOMENTS -- 1.3 FINITE ELEMENT METHOD -- 1.3.1 Scalar Formulation -- 1.3.2 Vector Formulation -- 1.4 FINITE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE -- References -- Chapter 2 FDTD Optimization and Acceleration -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION TO CPU ARCHITECTURE -- 2.2 SSE INSTRUCTION SET -- 2.3 CACHE OPTIMIZATION -- 2.4 TASK PARALLELIZATION AND BUNDLING -- 2.5 PREFETCH -- 2.6 READING OR WRITING COMBINATION -- 2.7 MATERIAL LOOP-UP TABLE -- 2.8 NUMA OPTIMIZATION -- 2.9 IMPLEMENTATION OF VALU FDTD METHOD -- References -- Chapter 3 Parallel FDTD Method and Systems -- 3.1 PARALLEL FDTD METHOD -- 3.2 OPENMP FOR MULTICORE PROCESSORS -- 3.3 MPI TECHNIQUE -- 3.4 NETWORK CARD, SWITCH, AND CABLE -- References -- Chapter 4 Electromagnetic Simulation Techniques -- 4.1 MESH GENERATION TECHNIQUES -- 4.2 BASIC SIMULATION PROCEDURE -- 4.3 DIPOLE ANTENNA -- 4.4 VIVALDI ANTENNA SIMULATION -- 4.5 BANDED MICROWAVE CONNECTOR -- 4.6 PARALLEL LINES -- 4.7 TWO-PORT ANTENNA -- 4.8 SLOT COUPLING -- 4.9 MICROWAVE FILTER -- 4.10 OPTIMIZATION AND PARAMETER SCAN -- 4.11 PERIODIC STRUCTURE SIMULATION -- 4.12 GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MODEL -- 4.13 MICROWAVE CONNECTOR -- References -- Chapter 5 EM Simulation Software Benchmarks -- 5.1 BASIC STEPS IN EM SIMULATION -- 5.1.1 HFSS -- 5.1.2 CST -- 5.1.3 FEKO -- 5.1.4 GEMS -- 5.2 HARDWARE PLATFORMS -- 5.3 PATCH ANTENNA -- 5.4 VIVALDI ANTENNA -- 5.5 SCATTERING OF DIELECTRIC SPHERE -- 5.6 CELL PHONE ANTENNA -- 5.7 ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURE -- 5.8 STANDARD SAR TEST -- 5.9 WAVEGUIDE FILTER -- References -- Chapter 6 Large Multiscale Problem Solving -- 6.1 RADIO FREQUENCY PROTECTION.

Advances in photonics and nanotechnology have the potential to revolutionize humanitys ability to communicate and compute. To pursue these advances, it is mandatory to understand and properly model interactions of light with materials such as silicon and gold at the nanoscale, i.e., the span of a few tens of atoms laid side by side. These interactions are governed by the fundamental Maxwells equations of classical electrodynamics, supplemented by quantum electrodynamics. This book presents the current state-of-the-art in formulating and implementing computational models of these interactions. Maxwells equations are solved using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique, pioneered by the senior editor, whose prior Artech House books in this area are among the top ten most-cited in the history of engineering. This cutting-edge resource helps readers understand the latest developments in computational modeling of nanoscale optical microscopy and microchip lithography, as well as nanoscale plasmonics and biophotonics.

Metamaterials:Theory, Design, and Applications goes beyond left-handed materials (LHM) or negative index materials (NIM) and focuses on recent research activity. Included here is an introduction to optical transformation theory, revealing invisible cloaks, EM concentrators, beam splitters, and new-type antennas, a presentation of general theory on artificial metamaterials composed of periodic structures, coverage of a new rapid design method for inhomogeneous metamaterials, which makes it easier to design a cloak, and new developments including but not limited to experimental verification of invisible cloaks, FDTD simulations of invisible cloaks, the microwave and RF applications of metamaterials, sub-wavelength imaging using anisotropic metamaterials, dynamical metamaterial systems, photonic metamaterials, and magnetic plasmon effects of metamaterials.

This special volume of the conference will be of immense use to the researchers and academicians. In this conference, academicians, technocrats and researchers will get an opportunity to interact with eminent persons in the field of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing. The topics to be covered in this International Conference are comprehensive and will be adequate for developing and understanding about new developments and emerging trends in this area. High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems have gone through many changes during the past two decades in their architectural design to satisfy the increasingly large-scale scientific computing demand. Accurate, fast, and scalable performance models and simulation tools are essential for evaluating alternative architecture design decisions for the massive-scale computing systems. This conference recounts some of the influential work in modeling and simulation for HPC systems and applications, identifies some of the major challenges, and outlines future research directions which we believe are critical to the HPC modeling and simulation community.

This book discusses bulk solids that derive their mechanical properties not from those of their base materials, but from their designed microstructures. Focusing on the negative mechanical properties, it addresses topics that reveal the counter-intuitive nature of solids, specifically the negativity of properties that are commonly positive, such as negative bulk modulus, negative compressibility, negative hygroexpansion, negative thermal expansion, negative stiffness phase, and negative Poisson’s ratio. These topics are significant not only due to the curiosity they have sparked, but also because of the possibility of designing materials and structures that can behave in ways that are not normally expected in conventional solids, and as such, of materials that can outperform solids and structures made from conventional materials. The book includes illustrations to facilitate learning, and, where appropriate, reference tables. The presentation is didactic, starting with simple cases, followed by increasingly complex ones. It provides a solid foundation for graduate students, and a valuable resource for practicing materials engineers seeking to develop novel materials through the judicious design of microstructures and their corresponding mechanisms.