Improved spherical wave least squares method for analyzing periodic arrays of spheres.
For analyzing plane wave scattering from a multilayer periodic structure where each layer consists of a two-dimensional periodic array of spheres, a spherical wave least squares method is developed which extends and improves the earlier work by Matsushima et al. [PIER 69, 305 (2007)]. A number of techniques are used to speed up the method and to reduce the memory requirement. Spherical wave expansions are used in one unit cell containing a sphere in each layer, and quasi-periodic conditions are imposed on lateral surfaces of the unit cell in the least squares sense. Unlike the layer-Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method [Physica A 141, 575 (1987)], the method does not need lattice sums and it is relatively simple to implement.
Joint Advanced Research Center of University of Science and Technology of China and City University of Hong Kong, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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