Meshless Methods for Photonic Crystal Modelling
- Research Team
- Neil O'Brien, Elizabeth Hart
- Investigators
- Kamal Djidjeli, Marc Molinari, Simon Cox
The Morpho butterfly's brilliant colours arise from a natural photonic crystal-like cellular structure (image source: Wikimedia Commons)
We apply meshless methods to the problems of simulating photonic crystals. The meshless methods utilise compactly-supported radial basis functions (CSRBFs) and offer a promising alternative to the conventional plane-wave expansion method for calculating the band structure of photonic crystals.
Categories
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Photonics
Algorithms and computational methods: Meshless methods
Software Engineering Tools: SVN