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7 June 2013 Editorial: Vanishing methods
Akhlesh Lakhtakia
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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 070199 (June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.7.070199
Abstract
One of my graduate students decided to use a popular commercial software in order to investigate scattering by three-dimensional (3-D) objects. Within a few weeks, he came up with very nice plots of scattering patterns as well as colorful spatial profiles of scattered fields. As the 3-D objects were of complicated shapes and my brain is still wired to analytical treatments of scattering, I asked him to repeat his calculations for a sphere made of an isotropic material. After looking at the diagrams he supplied, I decided that something had gone wrong.
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Akhlesh Lakhtakia "Editorial: Vanishing methods," Journal of Nanophotonics 7(1), 070199 (7 June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.7.070199
Published: 7 June 2013
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KEYWORDS
Scattering
Analytical research
Optical spheres
Biological research
Brain
Shape analysis
Computing systems
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