title: Influence of the edge meshes on the accuracy of the coupled-dipole approximation.
abstract: We demonstrate that an appropriate discretization scheme can render the convergence of the coupled-dipole approximation (also known as the discrete-dipole approximation) much more regular and improve its accuracy by as much as a factor of 24. This discretization scheme is simple, can be applied to arbitrarily shaped scatterers, and does not require additional computation time.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Field Theory and Microwave Electronics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, USA.
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Piller