Integrated Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) in a Yee-Cell based Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Simulation of Electromagnetic Metasurfaces

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel FDTD simulation method for broadband electromagnetic metasurfaces by integrating GSTCs directly into Yee-cells, enabling accurate modeling of complex wave interactions.

Contribution

It presents a new approach to incorporate GSTCs into Yee-cell FDTD simulations for arbitrary wave excitations, including three distinct cell configurations and broadband Lorentzian susceptibilities.

Findings

TAC configuration converges fastest with minimal error.

Simulation results match analytical Fourier methods closely.

The model ensures physical and causal metasurface responses.

Abstract

A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation of broadband electromagnetic metasurfaces based on direct in- corporation of Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) inside a conventional Yee-cell region has been proposed, for arbitrary wave excitations. This is achieved by inserting a zero thickness metasurface inside bulk nodes of the Yee-cell region, giving rise to three distinct cell configurations - Symmetric Cell (SC), Asymmetric Cell (AC) and Tight Asymmetric Cell (TAC). In addition, the metasurface is modelled using electric and magnetic surface susceptibilities exhibiting a broadband Lorentzian response. As a result, the proposed model guarantees a physical and causal response from the metasurface. Several full- wave results are shown, and compared with analytical Fourier propagation methods showing excellent results, for both 1D and 2D fields simulations. It is found that the TAC provides the fastest convergence among the three methods with minimum error.