FDTD Solutions
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High performance FDTD-method Maxwell solver for the design, analysis and optimization of nanophotonic devices, processes and materials
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| Employing the industry proven finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, FDTD Solutions empowers designers to confront the most challenging photonic design problems. Rapid prototyping and highly-accurate simulations reduce reliance upon costly experimental prototypes, leading to a quicker assessment of design concepts and reduced product development costs.Explore how FDTD Solutions can facilitate your success in diverse application areas, from fundamental photonics research to current industrial applications in imaging, lighting, biophotonics, photovoltaics, and many more.
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Key Benefits
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Featured Applications
FDTD Solutions in the Literature
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FDTD Solutions Overview
FDTD Solutions is a 3D Maxwell solver, capable of analyzing the interaction of UV, visible, and IR radiation with complicated structures employing wavelength scale features. FDTD Solutions is able to accurately take into account material dispersion over wide wavelength ranges via its proprietary Multi-coefficient Material modeling capabilities, enabling the end user to efficiently calculate device response over wide bandwidths. With a highly-optimized computational engine able to exploit multi-core computing systems in everything from laptops to high-performance computing clusters, and a built-in optimization framework to speed the generation of optimized nanophotonics devices, FDTD Solutions is the photonics design environment of choice among industry professionals.
Key Benefits of FDTD Solutions
- Decreased product development costs via highly-accurate algorithms with built-in optimization that allows for rapid virtual prototyping to reduce costly physical prototypes
- Reduced time-to-market owing to a highly-optimized simulation engine engineered for high-throughput design assessment on leading-edge computational systems
- Increased productivity via design tools engineered with ease-of-use in mind to facilitate fast learning and rapid deployment
FDTD Solutions Features
- Simulation of Arbitrary Geometries
- Concurrent Computing on Multiple Computers
- Optimization Framework
- Dispersive Material Modeling
- Parallel Computation on Multicore and Multinode Systems
- Optimized Computational Engine
- Advanced Meshing Algorithms
- Powerful Scripting Language
- Design Parameterization and Hierarchical Layout
- Movies of Simulation Dynamics
Featured Applications of FDTD Solutions
FDTD Solutions addresses a wide variety of applications involving the scattering, diffraction, and propagation of optical radiation. FDTD Solutions is useful for many engineering problems of interest, including:
CMOS image sensor pixel
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As CMOS pixel sizes decrease to reduce costs of digitial camera systems, there is a corresponding reduction in signal to noise and an increase in pixel cross-talk.
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Thin film silicon solar cell photovoltaics
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Metallic nanoparticle arrays on the top surface of a thin film silicon solar cells are able to dramatically increase the absorption of solar energy.
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LED/OLED light extraction
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Sub-wavelength texturing of LEDs increase light extraction efficiency, but accurate simulation tools like FDTD Solutions are needed to optimize microstructured LEDs.
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FDTD Solutions in the Literature
| K. Aslan, M. J. R. Previte, Y. Zhang and C. D. Geddes, "Microwave-accelerated surface plasmon-coupled directional luminescence 2: A platform technology for ultra fast and sensitive target DNA detection in whole blood," Journal of Immunological Methods 331, 103-113 (2008) |
| M. H. Chowdhury, S. K. Gray, J. Pond, C. D. Geddes, K. Aslan, and J. R. Lakowicz, "Computational study of fluorescence scattering by silver nanoparticles," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 2259-2267 (2007) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-24-9-2259 |
| M. H. Chowdhury, J. Pond, S. K. Gray and J. R. Lakowicz, "Systematic Computational Study of the Effect of Silver Nanoparticle Dimers on the Coupled Emission from Nearby Fluorophores", J. Phys. Chem. C., 112(30), 11236-11249 (2008). http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpccck/2008/112/i30/abs/jp802414k.html |
| Mustafa H. Chowdhury, Krishanu Ray, Stephen K. Gray, James Pond and Joseph R. Lakowicz, "Aluminum Nanoparticles as Substrates for Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence in the Ultraviolet for the Label-Free Detection of Biomolecules," Analytical Chemistry 2009 81 (4), 1397-1403 |
| S. Mandal and D. Erickson, "Nanoscale optofluidic sensor arrays," Opt. Express 16, 1623-1631 (2008) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-3-1623 |
| M. J. R. Previte and C. D. Geddes, "Microwave-Triggered Chemiluminescence with Planar Geometrical Aluminum Substrates: Theory, Simulation and Experiment," Journal of Fluorescence 3 279-287 (2007) DOI: 10.1007/s10895-007-0170-8 http://www.springerlink.com/content/g2gl8t27q306020w |
| K. Ray, M. H. Chowdhury and J. R. Lakowicz, "Aluminum Nanostructured Films as Substrates for Enhanced Fluorescence in the Ultraviolet-Blue Spectral Region," Analytical Chemistry 2007 79 (17), 6480-648 |
| K. Ray, M. H. Chowdhury and J. R. Lakowicz, "Single-Molecule Spectroscopic Study of Enhanced Intrinsic Phycoerythrin Fluorescence on Silver Nanostructured Surfaces," Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 6942-6948 |
| S. Tanev, J. Pond, P. Paddon, and V. Tuchin, "Simulation techniques enhance cellular nanobioimaging", SPIE Newsroom, 10.1117/2.1200808.1224, (2008). |
| Stoyan Tanev, Wenbo Sun, James Pond, Valery V. Tuchin, and Vladimir P. Zharov, "Flow cytometry with gold nanoparticles and their clusters as scattering contrast agents: FDTD simulation of light-cell interaction," Journal of Biophotonics 2, 505-520 (2009), DOI: 10.1002/jbio.200910039 |
| J. Zhang, Y. Fu, M. H. Chowdhury, and J. R. Lakowicz, "Metal-Enhanced Single-Molecule Fluorescence on Silver Particle Monomer and Dimer: Coupling Effect between Metal Particles," Nano Lett. 7, 2101-2107 (2007). |
| J. Zhang, Y. Fu, M. H. Chowdhury, and J. R. Lakowicz, "Single-Molecule Studies on Fluorescently Labeled Silver Particles: Effects of Particle Size," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008 112 (12), 18-26 |
| Yongxia Zhang, Anatoliy Dragan, and Chris D. Geddes, "Wavelength Dependence of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence," J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 12095-12100 |
| Yongxia Zhang, Anatoliy Dragan, and Chris D. Geddes, "Broad Wavelength Range Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Using Nickel Nanodeposits," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2009 113 (36), 15811-15816 |
| F. Hirigoyen, A. Crocherie, J. M. Vaillant, and Y. Cazaux, "FDTD-based optical simulations methodology for CMOS image sensors pixels architecture and process optimization" Proc. SPIE 6816, 681609 (2008) http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.766391 |
| S. Tanev, J. Pond, P. Paddon, and V. Tuchin, "FDTD simulation of optical phase contrast microscope imaging", Proc. SPIE, 6991, 69912D (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.781514 |
| J. Vaillant, A. Crocherie, F. Hirigoyen, A. Cadien, and J. Pond, "Uniform illumination and rigorous electromagnetic simulations applied to CMOS image sensors," Opt. Express 15, 5494-5503 (2007) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-9-5494 |
| E. Bisaillon, D. Tan, B. Faraji, A. Kirk, L. Chrowstowski, and D. V. Plant, "High reflectivity air-bridge subwavelength grating reflector and Fabry-Perot cavity in AlGaAs/GaAs," Opt. Express 14, 2573-2582 (2006) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-7-2573 |
| Christopher Chase, Ye Zhou, and Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, "Size effect of high contrast gratings in VCSELs," Opt. Express 17, 24002-24007 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-26-24002 |
| Y. Chua, A.M. Mintairovb, Y. Heb, J.L. Merzb, N.A. Kalyuzhnyyc, V.M. Lantratovc and S.A. Mintairov, "Lasing of whispering-gallery modes in asymmetric waveguide GaInP micro-disks with InP quantum dots," Physics Letters A 373, 1185-1188 (2009) |
| Anne-Line Henneghien, Bruno Gayral, Yohan Desieres, and Jean-Michel Gerard, "Simulation of waveguiding and emitting properties of semiconductor nanowires with hexagonal or circular sections," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 2396-2403 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-26-12-2396 |
| L. Hou, P. Stolarz, R. Dylewicz, M. Haji, J. Javaloyes, B. Qiu, A. C. Bryce, "160-GHz Passively Mode-Locked AlGaInAs 1.55-um Strained Quantum-Well Compound Cavity Laser," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 22 , Issue 10, pp. 727-729 (2010). |
| Hideo Iwase, Satoshi Kokubo, Saulius Juodkazis, and Hiroaki Misawa, "Suppression of ripples on ablated Ni surface via a polarization grating," Opt. Express 17, 4388-4396 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-6-4388 |
| A. M. Mintairov, Y. Chu, Y. He, S. Blokhin, A. Nadtochy, M. Maximov, V. Tokranov, S. Oktyabrsky, and J. L. Merz, "High-spatial-resolution near-field photoluminescence and imaging of whispering-gallery modes in semiconductor microdisks with embedded quantum dots," Phys. Rev. B 77, 195322 (2008), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195322 |
| N. Sedoglavich, R. Kunnemeyer, and J. C. Sharpe, "Polarization tunable selective polariton generator," Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 101111 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3099040 |
| T. Sikola, R. D. Kekatpure, E. S. Barnard, J. S. White, P. Van Dorpe, L. Brinek, O. Tomanec, J. Zlamal, D. Y. Lei, Y. Sonnefraud, S. A. Maier, J. HumliCek, and M. L. Brongersma, "Mid-IR plasmonic antennas on silicon-rich oxinitride absorbing substrates: Nonlinear scaling of resonance wavelengths with antenna length," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 253109 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3278593 |
| M. J. Strain and M. Sorel, "Compact Semiconductor Tapers for Deep-to-Shallow Etch Transitions," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 19, 1544-1546 (2007), DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.903886 |
| C. F. Wang, Y-S. Choi, J. C. Lee, E. L. Hu, J. Yang, and J. E. Butler, "Observation of whispering gallery modes in nanocrystalline diamond microdisks," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 081110 (2007), DOI:10.1063/1.2709626 |
| Nanfang Yu, Mikhail A. Kats, Christian Pflugl, Markus Geiser, Qi Jie Wang, Mikhail A. Belkin, Federico Capasso, Milan Fischer, Andreas Wittmann, Jerome Faist, Tadataka Edamura, Shinichi Furuta, Masamichi Yamanishi, and Hirofumi Kan, "Multi-beam multi-wavelength semiconductor lasers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 161108 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3253713 |
| Y. Zhou, H. Tan and D. J. Klotzkin, "Small area right angle bends fabricated with hybrid conventional and interference lithography," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 49, 1300-1303 (2007), DOI: 10.1002/mop.22408 |
| H. Bechtel, "Materials and Nano Optics for Solid State Lighting", Litho2006, Marseille, France (2006). Web link: www.lithoconf.com/Full_contributions/Bechtel_LITHO2006.pdf |
| H. Greiner and J. Pond, "Simulation of Light Extraction from OLEDS using FDTD Solutions", presented at NFO9, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2006. |
| H. J. R. Greiner, P. Bienstman, J. Pond, P. Vandersteegen, "FDTD and RCWA simulations of oled light extraction structures", SPIE Photonics Europe conference, France, p.174 (2008). |
| M. A. Mossman, V. H. Kwong, J. Pond, and L. A. Whitehead, "A high reflectance, wide viewing angle reflective display using total internal reflection in micro-hemispheres," in Society for Information Display Symposium Proceedings (Society for Information Display, San Jose, Calif., 2003), Vol. 23, pp. 233-235. |
| Matthew J. Dicken, Koray Aydin, Imogen M. Pryce, Luke A. Sweatlock, Elizabeth M. Boyd, Sameer Walavalkar, James Ma, and Harry A. Atwater, "Frequency tunable near-infrared metamaterials based on VO2 phase transition," Opt. Express 17, 18330-18339 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-20-18330 |
| Justyna K. Gansel, Martin Wegener, Sven Burger, and Stefan Linden, "Gold helix photonic metamaterials: A numerical parameter study," Opt. Express 18, 1059-1069 (2010) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-2-1059 |
| B. Lahiri, R. Dylewicz, R. M. De La Rue, and N. P. Johnson, "Impact of titanium adhesion layers on the response of arrays of metallic split-ring resonators (SRRs)," Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 11, pp. 11202-11208 (2010). |
| Stephan Schwaiger, Markus Broll, Andreas Krohn, Andrea Stemmann, Christian Heyn, Yuliya Stark, Daniel Stickler, Detlef Heitmann, and Stefan Mendach, "Rolled-Up Three-Dimensional Metamaterials with a Tunable Plasma Frequency in the Visible Regime," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 163903 (2009) |
| S. Seckin Senlik, Askin Kocabas, and Atilla Aydinli, "Grating based plasmonic band gap cavities," Opt. Express 17, 15541-15549 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-18-15541 |
| Jun Wang, Wei Zhou, and Er-Ping Li, "Enhancing the light transmission of plasmonic metamaterials through polygonal aperture arrays," Opt. Express 17, 20349-20354 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-22-20349 |
| Pratik Chaturvedi, Keng Hsu, Anil Kumar, James C. Mabon and Nicholas Fang, "Imaging of plasmonic modes of silver nanoparticles using high-resolution cathodoluminescence spectroscopy," ACS Nano Article ASAP, (2009) DOI: 10.1021/nn900571z |
| Marcelo I. Davanco and Kartik Srinivasan, "Efficient spectroscopy of single embedded emitters using optical fiber taper waveguides," Opt. Express 17, 10542-10563 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-13-10542 |
| F. Eftekhari, and R. Gordon, "Enhanced second harmonic generation from non-centrosymmetric nano-hole arrays in a gold film," IEEE J. Quant. Elect. 15, 1552-1558 (2008). |
| Markus Gregor, Alexander Kuhlicke, and Oliver Benson, "Soft-landing and optical characterization of a preselected single fluorescent particle on a tapered optical fiber," Opt. Express 17, 24234-24243 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-26-24234 |
| T. Hashimoto, S. Juodkazis and H. Misawa, "Void recording in silica," Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing 83 (2), 337-240 (2006), DOI: 10.1007/s00339-006-3501-8 |
| M. Monirul Islam, Kosei Ueno, Saulius juodkazis, Yukie yokota, and Hiroaki Misawa, "Development of Interdigitated Array Electrodes with Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering Functionality," Analytical Sciences 26, 13 (2010) |
| Saulius Juodkazis, Yasufumi Nishi, Hiroaki Misawa, Vygantas Mizeikis, Olivier Schecker, Reimar Waitz, Paul Leiderer, and Elke Scheer, "Optical transmission and laser structuring of silicon membranes," Opt. Express 17, 15308-15317 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-17-15308 |
| M. Kawano, J. T. Blakely, R. Gordon, and D. Sinton, "Theory of dielectric micro-sphere dynamics in a dual-beam optical trap," Opt. Express 16, 9306-9317 (2008) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-13-9306 |
| Y. Z. Lin, K. Li and F. M. Kong, "Light extraction efficiency enhancement by EOT for a single quantum well," Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 48 (1) 10702 (2009), DOI: 10.1051/epjap/2009129 |
| O. A. Louchev, S. Juodkazis, N. Murazawa, S. Wada, and H. Misawa, "Coupled laser molecular trapping, cluster assembly, and deposition fed by laser-induced Marangoni convection," Opt. Express 16, 5673-5680 (2008) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-8-5673 |
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