Computation of Optical Force on Nanoparticles Using Locally Non-Orthogonal Overlapping Yee FDTD Method

Jinjie Liu, Moysey Brio, Jerome V. Moloney

Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences at Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA...
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Delaware State University, Dover, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2012.411063                

Abstract

In this paper, a locally non-orthogonal overlapping Yee (OY) FDTD method is proposed in order to accurately calculates the optical force on dielectric and dispersive nanoparticles. It extends our previous work to geometries with sharp corners and dispersive materials. In addition to consistently achieving the smallest errors in comparison to the standard FDTD method, the OY approach is a stable non-orthogonal FDTD method that attains second-order convergence when sharp corners are present.

Keywords

FDTD; Overlapping Yee; Optical Force; Nanoparticle

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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