Webinar Description
Learn how to simulate, characterize and optimize metamaterials at THz, microwave, and optical frequencies with Lumerical’s FDTD Solutions. This webinar will describe the recommended workflow for metamaterial simulations, including a number of important tips that will increase the speed of your simulations and simplify the data analysis. We’ll show how to use all your available computer resources to optimize your designs and provide demonstration simulations of various metamaterials with different desired characteristics, including active and graphene based active metamaterials as well as bulk metamaterials. There will also be an opportunity to answer your specific questions about simulation issues at the end of the webinar
Webinar Schedule
Webinar Outline
Introduction
- What is a metamaterial
- Applications
- Operating frequencies (from microwave, THz to optical)
- Simulation challenges
Simulation methodology
- Simulation setup and parameterization
- Sweeps and Optimizations
- Material refractive index modeling
- Sources and boundary conditions
- Extracting the desired results and examples, including
- S parameters
- Effective refractive index
- Effective permittivity and permeability
- Effective impedance
- Transmission and reflection
- Circular dichroism
- Scattering and absorption cross sections
- Active graphene based and other active metamaterials
- Modeling of bulk metamaterials
- Examples and demo
- Tips for simulation setup and analysis
- Questions and Answers time
