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OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 2747-2758Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OME.457134
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- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [188647, 190467]
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This study presents a rigorous solution of Maxwell's equations in binary periodic materials using a combined Greens-Galerkin procedure. The method provides an accurate solution in regimes where homogenization theories fail and offers an explanation for the high fill fractions in the Maxwell-Garnett theory.
Metamaterial homogenization theories usually start with crude approximations that are valid in certain limits in zero order, such as small frequencies, wave vectors and material fill fractions. In some cases they remain surprisingly robust exceeding their initial assumptions, such as the well-established Maxwell-Garnett theory for elliptical inclusions that can produce reliable results for fill fractions far above its theoretical limitations. We here present a rigorous solution of Maxwell's equations in binary periodic materials employing a combined Greens-Galerkin procedure to obtain a low-dimensional eigenproblem for the evanescent Floquet eigenmodes of the material. In its general form, our method provides an accurate solution of the multi-valued complex Floquet bandstructure, which currently cannot be obtained with established solvers. It is thus shown to be valid in regimes where homogenization theories naturally break down. For small frequencies and wave numbers in lowest order, our method simplifies to the Maxwell-Garnett result for 2D cylinder and 3D sphere packings. It therefore provides the missing explanation why Maxwell-Garnett works well up to extremely high fill fractions of approximately 50% depending on the constituent materials, provided the inclusions are arranged on an isotropic lattice. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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