Analysis of Composite Dielectric Metamaterials Using Integral Equation Techniques

Abstract

We study numerically the electromagnetic scattering properties of three dimensional (3D),arbitrary shaped composite dielectric metamaterials. Using integral equation techniques, we firstderive a surface integral equation formulation which produces well-conditioned matrix equation.To solve the obtained integral equations, we apply a Galerkin scheme and choose the basis andtesting functions as Rao-Wilton-Glisson defined on planar patches. We then develop an algorithmto speed up the matrix-vector multiplications by employing the well-known method of moments(MoM) and the multilevel fast multipole algorithm on personal computer (PC) clusters. Some 3Dnumerical examples are presented to demonstrate the validity and accuracy of the proposedapproach.