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Phys. Rev. B 48, 8434–8437 (1993)

Accurate theoretical analysis of photonic band-gap materials

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R. D. Meade, A. M. Rappe, K. D. Brommer, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

O. L. Alerhand
Bell Communications Research, Red Bank, New Jersey 07701

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Received 11 February 1993; published in the issue dated 15 September 1993

Two improvements for the solution of Maxwell’s equations in periodic dielectric media are introduced, abandoning the plane-wave cutoff and interpolating the dielectric function. These improvements permit the accurate study of previously inaccessible systems. Example calculations are discussed, employing a basis of ∼106 plane waves for which these two improvements reduce both the memory and central processing unit requirements by ∼104.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.8434
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.48.8434
PACS:
84.40.Cb, 42.70.-a, 42.79.Dj

See Also

Erratum: R. D. Meade, A. M. Rappe, K. D. Brommer, J. D. Joannopoulos, and O. L. Alherhand, Erratum: Accurate theoretical analysis of photonic band-gap materials [Phys. Rev. B 48, 8434 (1993)], Phys. Rev. B 55, 15942 (1997).