Concise and explicit formulas for dyadic Green's functions, representing the electric and magnetic fields due to a dipole source placed in layered media, are derived in this paper. First, the electric and magnetic fields in the spectral domain for the half space are expressed using Fresnel reflection and transmission coefficients. Each component of electric field in the spectral domain constitutes the spectral Green's function in layered media. The Green's function in the spatial domain is then recovered involving Sommerfeld integrals for each component in the spectral domain. By using Bessel identities, the number of Sommerfeld integrals are reduced, resulting in much simpler and more efficient formulas for numerical implementation compared with previous results. This approach is extended to the three-layer Green's function. In addition, the singular part of the Green's function is naturally separated out so that integral equation methods developed for free space Green's functions can be used with minimal modification. Numerical results are included to show efficiency and accuracy of the derived formulas.
In this paper, dyadic Green's function for a graphene-dielectric stack is formulated based on the scattering superposition method. To this end, scattering Green's function in each layer is expanded in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions with unknown coefficients. Using the Kronecker delta function in the field expansion, it is considered that the field and source points lie in the arbitrary layers. Afterward, recurrence relations for calculating the unknown expansion coefficients are derived by applying the impedance boundary conditions at the interface of a graphene sheet surrounded by…
This paper presents a second-kind surface integral equation method for the numerical solution of frequency-domain electromagnetic scattering problems by locally perturbed layered media in three spatial dimensions. Unlike standard approaches, the proposed methodology does not involve the use of layer Green functions. It instead leverages an indirect Müller formulation in terms of free-space Green functions that entails integration over the entire unbounded penetrable boundary. The integral equation domain is effectively reduced to a small-area surface by means of the windowed Green function met…
Atom-Field Non-Markovian Dynamics in Open and Dissipative Systems: An Efficient Memory-Kernel Approach Linked to Dyadic Greens Function and CEM Treatments
Domain decomposition for quasi-periodic scattering by layered media via robust boundary-integral equations at all frequencies
MIT（麻省理工学院）；Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile（智利天主教 Pontificia 大学）；Louisiana State University（路易斯安那州立大学）；New Jersey Inst. of Technology（新泽西理工学院）；Duke University（杜克大学）
Efficient Green's function evaluation in layered media is a holy-grail of wave theory in general and for electromagnetics in particular. While there is a very large amount of knowledge in this context with vast literature, there are yet challenging cases such as the Green's function in thick lossy media and the Green's function at thick media with negative parameters. Here we propose a technique that can nicely tackle these issues. Our approach is based on a rational function approximation of the spectra using the Fourier-Padé approximation that is carried out in a conformal mapped spectral pl…
This paper introduces a new Windowed Green Function (WGF) method for the numerical integral-equation solution of problems of electromagnetic scattering by obstacles in presence of dielectric or conducting half-planes. The WGF method, which is based on use of smooth windowing functions and integral kernels that can be expressed directly in terms of the free-space Green function, does not require evaluation of expensive Sommerfeld integrals. The proposed approach is fast, accurate, flexible and easy to implement. In particular, straightforward modifications of existing (accelerated or unaccelera…
We discuss the application of Complex-Plane Gauss-Laguerre Quadrature (CGLQ) to efficiently evaluate two-dimensional Fourier integrals arising as the solution to electromagnetic fields radiated by elementary dipole antennas embedded within planar-layered media with arbitrary material parameters. More specifically, we apply CGLQ to the long-standing problem of rapidly and efficiently evaluating the semi-infinite length "tails" of the Fourier integral path while simultaneously and robustly guaranteeing absolute, exponential convergence of the field solution despite diversity in the doubly anisot…
Pseudo-spectral frequency-domain method with background field decomposition and Green's function preconditioner for electromagnetic scattering problem in EUV lithography
On the surface plasmonic waves excited by a dipole above anisotropic and spatially dispersive two-dimensional surfaces of infinite extent in planarly layered media
pyGDM is a python toolkit for electro-dynamical simulations of individual nano-structures, based on the Green Dyadic Method (GDM). pyGDM uses the concept of a generalized propagator, which allows to solve cost-efficiently monochromatic problems with a large number of varying illumination conditions such as incident angle scans or focused beam raster-scan simulations. We provide an overview of new features added since the initial publication [Wiecha, Computer Physics Communications 233, pp.167-192 (2018)]. The updated version of pyGDM is implemented in pure python, removing the former dependenc…
Anisotropic and spatially dispersive graphene patches of arbitrary shape embedded in planarly layered uniaxial media are analyzed using spectral-domain method of moments. Formulation and computational methods for the spectral-domain method of moments using the Rao-Wilton-Glisson subdomain basis function and incorporating the full-wavevector Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook formulation of graphene surface conductivity tensor are proposed. The impedance matrix is efficiently evaluated by a novel numerical method which firstly approximates the spectral-domain Green function, basis function and conductivity …
A surface integral representation of Maxwell's equations allows the efficient electromagnetic (EM) modeling of three-dimensional structures with a two-dimensional discretization, via the boundary element method (BEM). However, existing BEM formulations either lead to a poorly conditioned system matrix for multiscale problems, or are computationally expensive for objects embedded in layered substrates. This article presents a new BEM formulation which leverages the surface equivalence principle and Buffa-Christiansen basis functions defined on a dual mesh, to obtain a well-conditioned system ma…
The boundary element method (BEM) enables the efficient electromagnetic modelling of lossy conductors with a surface-based discretization. Existing BEM techniques for conductor modelling require either expensive dual basis functions or the use of both single- and double-layer potential operators to obtain a well-conditioned system matrix. The associated computational cost is particularly significant when conductors are embedded in stratified media, and the expensive multilayer Green's function (MGF) must be invoked. In this work, a novel single-source BEM formulation is proposed, which leads t…
A new method to improve the accuracy and efficiency of characteristic mode (CM) decomposition for perfectly conducting bodies is presented. The method uses the expansion of the Green dyadic in spherical vector waves. This expansion is utilized in the method of moments (MoM) solution of the electric field integral equation to factorize the real part of the impedance matrix. The factorization is then employed in the computation of CMs, which improves the accuracy as well as the computational speed. An additional benefit is a rapid computation of far fields. The method can easily be integrated in…
