Characteristic Model and Efficient FDTD-SPM Algorithm for Fishnet Metasurfaces Analysis

Abstract

Intelligent metasurfaces to create smart electromagnetic environments have attracted a surge of interest. The multiscale property of metasurfaces results in a huge computational challenge, further hindering their engineering development. Our previous paper has developed a fast finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm for patchlike metasurfaces analysis using the surface susceptibility model (SSM). This study extends that to efficient fishnetlike metasurfaces analysis using the surface porosity model (SPM), a useful complement to SSM. We introduce the SPM to FDTD, replacing brute force simulations, to accelerate fishnetlike metasurfaces analysis. At last, we conduct a series of numerical experiments, demonstrating that the proposed FDTD-SPM algorithm greatly reduces the number of computational meshing lattices and the consumed time.