A Full-Vectorial Spectral Element Method With Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions for High-Efficiency Metasurface/Metafilm Simulation

Abstract

Recently, metasurfaces as 2-D metamaterials have been widely applied due to their advantages in low loss, ease of fabrication, and tunability in the phase, magnitude, and polarization of incident electromagnetic waves. However, due to the subwavelength-thickness properties of metasurfaces, their direct modeling and simulation are challenging because of the heavy computational burden. In this work, a high-efficiency spectral element method with generalized sheet transition conditions (SEM-GSTCs) is proposed by replacing finite thickness metasurfaces with zero-thickness equivalent boundary conditions to avoid dense elements and the associated enormous number of unknowns. Moreover, both the scalar and the full-vectorial SEM-GSTC are implemented. Some illustrative numerical examples are shown to verify that the proposed SEM-GSTC not only can obtain highly accurate numerical results but also is effective in addressing complex functions ranging from isotropic to fully bianisotropic metasurfaces.