The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method for Electromagnetics with MATLAB® Simulations

Atef Z. Elsherbeni is a distinguished chair professor and interim department head of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Colorado School of Mines. His research interests include the scattering and diffraction of EM waves, finite-difference time-domain analysis of antennas and microwave devices, field visualization and software development for EM education, interactions of electromagnetic waves with the human body, RFID and sensor integrated FRID systems, reflector and printed antennas and antenna arrays, and measurement of antenna characteristics and material properties. Dr Elsherbeni is a Fellow of IEEE and ACES, and Editor-in-Chief for ACES Journal. He was the General Chair for the 2014 APS-URSI Symposium and was the President of ACES Society from 2013 to 2015. Veysel Demir is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northern Illinois University. His main field of research is electromagnetics and microwaves, and he is especially experienced in applied computational electromagnetics. He heavily participated in the development of time-domain and frequency-domain numerical analysis tools for new applications and contributed to research on improving the accuracy and speed of the algorithms being developed. He is experienced in designing RF/microwave circuits and antennas for the related technologies, and performing experimental characterizations of these devices. Dr Demir is a member of IEEE, ACES, and SigmaXi, has co-authored more than 50 technical journal and conference papers, and served as a technical program co-chair for the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting and for the ACES 2015 conference.

Chapter 1: Introduction to FDTD
Chapter 2: Numerical stability and dispersion
Chapter 3: Building objects in the Yee grid
Chapter 4: Active and passive lumped elements
Chapter 5: Source waveforms and time to frequency domain transformation
Chapter 6: S-Parameters
Chapter 7: Perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary
Chapter 8: Advanced PML formulations
Chapter 9: Near-field to far-field transformation
Chapter 10: Thin-wire modeling
Chapter 11: Scattered field formulation
Chapter 12: Total field/scattered field formulation
Chapter 13: Dispersive material modeling
Chapter 14: Analysis of periodic structures
Chapter 15: Nonuniform grid
Chapter 16: Graphics processing unit acceleration of finite-difference time-domain method
Appendix A One-dimensional FDTD code
Appendix B Convolutional perfectly-matched layer regions and associated field updates for a three-dimensional domain
Appendix C MATLAB® code for plotting far-field patterns
Appendix D MATLAB® GUI for project template