Analysis of Photonic Band-Gap (PBG) Structure using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Algorithm

Author

Tong, Ming-Sze ; Schuler, Martin ; Müller, Stefan ; Krozer, Viktor ; Freese, Jens ; Jakoby, Rolf

Author_Institution

Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, s2-B2a-27 Nanyang Av., Singapore 639798, email: mingszetong@ieee.org

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

EM simulation and design of circuits based on thick substrates require appropriate processing of the simulated and measured results. The propagation characteristics of a PBG structure has been analysed using a "field-deembedding" approach. The PBG structure acts as an effective filter in suppressing the surface and substrate waves in the designed frequency band. An in-house non-uniform Finite Difference Time Domain (nu-FDTD) algorithm and several commercial software packages in time and frequency domain have been used for comparison of results on PBG structures. The different EM simulators show different results, which originate from underlying assumptions on the field excitation in the structure.

Keywords

Algorithm design and analysis; Circuit simulation; Filters; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Photonic band gap; Software algorithms; Surface waves; Thickness measurement; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2002. 32nd European

Conference_Location

Milan, Italy

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.2002.339336

Filename

4140416