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Simulation and Numerical Modeling of a Rectangular Patch Antenna Using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Method

Since its first introduction in 1966, the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method has been widely used as a tool for solving complex electromagnetic problems. For FDTD, Maxwell’s equations are ...
Nature

Time-domain Formulation of a Multi-layer Plane Circuit Coupled with Lumped-parameter Circuits using Maxwell Equations

Electromagnetic noise is troublesome because it is difficult to understand the fundamental phenomena associated with noise. In recent years, circuit design that reduces the influence of ...
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Taflove Interviewed by Nature Photonics for his Groundbreaking Contributions in Computational Electromagnetics

Prof. Allen Taflove is featured in the most-recent issue of Nature Photonics (January 2015, Volume 9 No 1 pp1-72) for his pioneering work in computational electromagnetics, specifically the Finite ...
Nature

Biological dispersion in the time domain using finite element method software

Biological tissue exhibits a strong dielectric dispersion from DC to GHz. Implementing biological dispersion in the time domain with commercial finite element method software could help improve ...
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Professor Allen Taflove Passes Away

Allen Taflove, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern Engineering who conducted pioneering work in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, passed away at age 71 on ...
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To Calculate Band Gap in Photonic Crystal in 2D using Finite Difference Time Domain Method

The band gap for 2D PhC with different modes and different lattice structures using FDTD has been computed. Three PBGs between the first and the second bands, between the second and the third bands ...