TY - GEN
T1 - FDTD modeling of an artificially-synthesized absorbing medium
AU - Yu, Wenhua
AU - Mittra, Raj
AU - Werner, Douglas Henry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1999 IEEE.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Special attention has been previously given to the study of periodic materials and wave propagation in periodic structures. Of particular interest is the possibility of using these periodic materials to achieve low reflection over a broad frequency band. We present a novel infinite periodic structure comprised of lossy dielectric and magnetic materials in a checkerboard-type configuration. The search for an artificial structure that exhibits a good match to free space was motivated by the fact that, to date, it has not been possible to find a real material which satisfies the criterion ϵ'r=μ'r and ϵ"r=μ"r- or similar ones that present a perfect match to the free space-as does the well-known PML medium widely used for the finite difference time domain (FDTD) mesh truncation. The FDTD technique is applied in conjunction with a periodic boundary condition to calculate the scattered field from the periodic structure for normally-incident plane waves. Because the computation is carried out in the time domain, only one FDTD simulation is required to calculate the scattering parameters in the frequency range of interest.
AB - Special attention has been previously given to the study of periodic materials and wave propagation in periodic structures. Of particular interest is the possibility of using these periodic materials to achieve low reflection over a broad frequency band. We present a novel infinite periodic structure comprised of lossy dielectric and magnetic materials in a checkerboard-type configuration. The search for an artificial structure that exhibits a good match to free space was motivated by the fact that, to date, it has not been possible to find a real material which satisfies the criterion ϵ'r=μ'r and ϵ"r=μ"r- or similar ones that present a perfect match to the free space-as does the well-known PML medium widely used for the finite difference time domain (FDTD) mesh truncation. The FDTD technique is applied in conjunction with a periodic boundary condition to calculate the scattered field from the periodic structure for normally-incident plane waves. Because the computation is carried out in the time domain, only one FDTD simulation is required to calculate the scattering parameters in the frequency range of interest.
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U2 - 10.1109/APS.1999.788343
DO - 10.1109/APS.1999.788343
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0342346225
T3 - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium: Wireless Technologies and Information Networks, APS 1999 - Held in conjunction with USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting
SP - 1962
EP - 1965
BT - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 1999 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 1999
Y2 - 11 July 1999 through 16 July 1999
ER -