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This is the second Chapter in which we give a detailed introduction into the field of computational plasmonics. While Chap. 11 covered the theoretical background of modern plasmonics, this Chapter provides describtions of the numerical methods involved in computational plasmonics. To this end we use modern ab initio methods, the standard frequency-domain and time-domain methods of computational electromagnetics. Finally we show some applications in the fields of photovoltaics and plasmonic–photonic crystals and close with a discussion of open problems.
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The authors would like to thank the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (NITheP), the Mandelstam Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP), the Materials Physics Research Institute (MPRI) and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials (CoE-SM) for support. We also acknowledge additional support through a bilateral project Plasmonics for a better efficiency of solar cells between South Africa and Italy (contributo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese).
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Mohammed, F., Warmbier, R., Quandt, A. (2017). Computational Plasmonics: Numerical Techniques. In: Agrawal, A., Benson, T., De La Rue, R., Wurtz, G. (eds) Recent Trends in Computational Photonics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55438-9_12
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