Computational Nanotechnology Using Finite Difference Time Domain

Index

A

ABC, See Absorbing boundary condition (ABC)

Absorbance, SRR pump probe experiments 200, 203

Absorbed power, solar cells 19, 55, 58

Absorbing boundary condition (ABC)

AVM approach for dielectric discontinuities 23, 24, 27

FDTD techniques 47–48, 171

photonics/nanophotonics 4–5

PML region

hyperlens 108

optical trapping 233, 239, 244

photodetector 266

unbounded region problem 171

Absorption

MSM-PDs 253–254, See also Photodetector structure, light absorption enhancement by

PML, See Perfectly matched layers (PML)

solar cells, thin-film 55

Absorption cross section, antenna 59

ADE, See Auxiliary differential equations (ADE)

ADI (alternating direction implicit) algorithm 41

Adjoint variable method (AVM) sensitivity analysis

for dielectric discontinuities ...