A monolayer of particles is mathematically analogous to a photonic- crystal slab. Like a slab, you handle it by using a unit cell in the plane of the particles, and a supercell in the vertical direction, and then looking at the modes only below the light line of the material above/below the monolayer.
Steven On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Ian D. Hosein wrote: > How exactly would I go about simulating the band structure of a > monolayer of particles, say a monolayer of dielectric spheres? I > don't want > to use the no-size, because that would just make my structure into > rods. I'm > interested in the seeing photonic properties of the three dimensional > monolayer structure. Would I just set the vector perpendicular to > the layer > to infinity or a very large value? _______________________________________________ mpb-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mpb-discuss
