Hi
In a typical phononic band structure calculation done within COMSOL the procedure is to define Floquet BC's and do a parametric sweep of the wave vector over a particular direction in the irreducible Brillouin zone. The output are frequencies and the input is wave vector. Simple enough.
However, it is also worthwhile to study the evanescent modes in lossy materials, this is done by calculating the complex band structure (usually done with an extended plane wave expansion procedure). The complex band structure is calculated by using a real frequency as input and solving for complex wave number. Thus resulting in two dispersion curves, one is omega vs real(k) and one is omega vs imag(k). My question is then can this easily be done within COMSOL? Even if someone has done this within the scope of optics or electronics, it would be helpful.
thanks
~Chris
In a typical phononic band structure calculation done within COMSOL the procedure is to define Floquet BC's and do a parametric sweep of the wave vector over a particular direction in the irreducible Brillouin zone. The output are frequencies and the input is wave vector. Simple enough.
However, it is also worthwhile to study the evanescent modes in lossy materials, this is done by calculating the complex band structure (usually done with an extended plane wave expansion procedure). The complex band structure is calculated by using a real frequency as input and solving for complex wave number. Thus resulting in two dispersion curves, one is omega vs real(k) and one is omega vs imag(k). My question is then can this easily be done within COMSOL? Even if someone has done this within the scope of optics or electronics, it would be helpful.
thanks
~Chris