Authors’ Online Seminar – IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques
This seminar is based on the paper “A Hybrid EM/QM Framework Based on the ADHIE-FDTD Method for the Modeling of Nanowires“, IEEE J-MMCT, vol. 7, 2022, pp. 236-251, coauthored by Pieter Decleer and Dries Vande Ginste. The paper won the Best Paper Award for papers published in IEEE J-MMCT in years 2021-2022. In the seminar […]
Analysis and Application of a Surface Admittance Operator for Combined Magnetic and Dielectric Contrast in Emerging Interconnect Topologies
This article presents a novel method to accurately simulate electromagnetic scattering at homogeneous polygonal cylinders with arbitrary material properties. A single source equivalence approach is invoked, allowing to substitute the background medium for the inner material of the scatterer, provided an equivalent surface current density is introduced. We construct the pertinent differential surface admittance operator […]
A Two-Step Approach for the Analysis of Bulk Current Injection Setups Involving Multiwire Bundles
In this work, a two-step procedure to predict maximum(worst-case scenario) and minimum (best-case scenario) noise levels induced by bulk current injection (BCI) at the terminal sections of awiring harness is presented.To this end, common mode (CM) and differential mode (DM) quantities are introduced by a suitable modal transformation, and equivalent modal circuits are derived, where […]
Construction of the differential surface admittance operator with an extended Fokas method for electromagnetic scattering at polygonal objects with arbitrary material parameters
This article presents a novel method to accurately simulate electromagnetic scattering at homogeneous polygonal cylinders with arbitrary material properties. A single source equivalence approach is invoked, allowing to substitute the background medium for the inner material of the scatterer, provided an equivalent surface current density is introduced. We construct the pertinent differential surface admittance operator […]
Interconnect Modeling using a Surface Admittance Operator Derived with the Fokas Method
In this contribution, we propose a novel approach to rigorously model interconnect structures with an arbitrary convex polygonal cross-section and general, piecewise homogeneous, material parameters. A full-wave boundary integral equation formulation is combined with a differential surface admittance approach, invoking an extended form of the numerically fast Fokas method to construct the pertinent operator. Several […]
A Hybrid EM/QM Framework Based on the ADHIE-FDTD Method for the Modeling of Nanowires
A new modeling formalism to compute the time-dependent behavior of combined electromagnetic (EM) and quantum mechanical (QM) systems is proposed. The method is geared towards highly multiscale geometries, which is vital for the future design of nanoelectronic devices. The advocated multiphysics modeling formalism leverages the alternating-direction hybrid implicit-explicit (ADHIE) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for the […]
A Robust Bayesian Optimization Framework for Microwave Circuit Design Under Uncertainty
In modern electronics, there are many inevitable uncertainties and variations of design parameters that have a profound effect on the performance of a device. These are, among others, induced by manufacturing tolerances, assembling inaccuracies, material diversities, machining errors, etc. This prompts a wide interests in enhanced optimization algorithms that take the effect of these uncertainty […]
Uncertainty Quantification of Electromagnetic Devices, Circuits, and Systems
Profs. Paolo Manfredi and Dries Vande Ginste authored Chapter 2 (Polynomial Chaos Based Uncertainty Quantification in Electrical Engineering: Theory) and Chapter 3 (Polynomial Chaos Based Uncertainty Quantification in Electrical Engineering: Applications) of the book Uncertainty Quantification of Electromagnetic Devices, Circuits, and Systems, edited by Prof. Sourajeet Roy and published by the Institution of Engineering and […]
A 2-D differential surface admittance operator for combined magnetic and dielectric contrast
In this paper, we present a novel technique to accurately model scattering phenomena at two-dimensional circular and rectangular structures consisting of arbitrary homogeneous materials, including magnetic media in particular. The proposed formalism utilizes a differential surface admittance operator, which invokes a single source equivalence theorem to replace the inside material by its surrounding medium, while […]
An alternating-direction hybrid implicit-explicit finite-difference time-domain method for the Schrödinger equation
This paper proposes a novel hybrid FDTD method for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation, which is fundamental for modeling materials and designing nanoscale devices. The wave function is propagated on nonuniform grids by applying explicit updates in part of the grid and implicit updates elsewhere. The latter are based on the Alternating-Direction Implicit (ADI) scheme […]