1. Low-overhead distribution strategy for simulation and optimization of large-area metasurfaces
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Jinhie Skarda, Rahul Trivedi, Logan Su, Diego Ahmad-Stein, Hyounghan Kwon, Seunghoon Han, Shanhui Fan, and Jelena Vučković
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Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials ,TA401-492 ,Computer software ,QA76.75-76.765 - Abstract
Abstract Fast and accurate electromagnetic simulation of large-area metasurfaces remains a major obstacle in automating their design. In this paper, we propose a metasurface simulation distribution strategy which achieves a linear reduction in the simulation time with the number of compute nodes. Combining this distribution strategy with a GPU-based implementation of the Transition-matrix method, we perform accurate simulations and adjoint sensitivity analysis of large-area metasurfaces. We demonstrate ability to perform a distributed simulation of large-area metasurfaces (over 600λ × 600λ), while accurately accounting for scatterer-scatterer interactions significantly beyond the locally periodic approximation.
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- 2022
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