Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Volume 355, Issue -, Pages 548-565Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.11.025
Keywords
Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method; Maxwell's equations; Hydrodynamic model for metals; Plasmonics; Nonlocal electrodynamics; Terahertz nonlocality
Funding
- AFOSR [FA9550-11-1-0141, FA9550-12-0357]
- NSF [ECCS 1610333]
- Seagate Technology University Project
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1610333] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The interaction of light with metallic nanostructures produces a collective excitation of electrons at the metal surface, also known as surface plasmons. These collective excitations lead to resonances that enable the confinement of light in deep-subwavelength regions, thereby leading to large near-field enhancements. The simulation of plasmon resonances presents notable challenges. From the modeling perspective, the realistic behavior of conduction-band electrons in metallic nanostructures is not captured by Maxwell's equations, thus requiring additional modeling. From the simulation perspective, the disparity in length scales stemming from the extreme field localization demands efficient and accurate numerical methods. In this paper, we develop the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method to solve Maxwell's equations augmented with the hydrodynamic model for the conduction-band electrons in noble metals. This method enables the efficient simulation of plasmonic nanostructures while accounting for the nonlocal interactions between electrons and the incident light. We introduce a novel postprocessing scheme to recover superconvergent solutions and demonstrate the convergence of the proposed HDG method for the simulation of a 2D gold nanowire and a 3D periodic annular nanogap structure. The results of the hydrodynamic model are compared to those of a simplified local response model, showing that differences between them can be significant at the nanoscale. (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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