Numerical Methods for Metamaterial Design

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Diest, Kenneth. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics, 127
• Subjects: Physics.; Computer aided design.; Microwaves.; Optical materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6664-8

This book describes a relatively new approach for the design of electromagnetic metamaterials.� Numerical optimization routines are combined with electromagnetic simulations to tailor the broadband optical properties of a metamaterial to have predetermined responses at predetermined wavelengths. Aft...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction; K.Diest
• 2 An Overview of Mathematical Methods for Numerical Optimization; D.E. Marthaler
• 3 Optimization with Surrogate Models; T.Schaul
• 4 Nonsmooth Optimization by Mesh Adaptive Direct Search; C.Audet, K.Diest, S. Le Digabel, L.A. Sweatlock, and D.E. Marthaler
• 5 Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques for Metamaterial Design; D. H. Werner, J.A. Bossard, Z.Bayraktar, Z.H. Jiang, M.D. Gregory, and P.L. Werner
• 6 Objective-First Nanophotonic Design; J. Lu and J. Vuckovic
• 7 Gradient Based Optimization Methods for Metamaterial Design; W. Chen, K.Diest, C.-Y. Kao, D.E. Marthaler, L. A. Sweatlock, and S.Osher
• Appendix: The Interface Between Optimization and Simulation.