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Publications and source records attributed to Young-Chung Hsue.
The main purpose of this paper is providing a simple method to generate the matrices of irreducible representations because it is useful to reduce the computational time of solving the eigenvalue problems. The only information we need to provide for this method is the group-multiplication table, and the proof of validity of this method is also shown in this paper.
In this paper, we extend the conventional plane wave expansion method in 3D anisotropic photonic crystal to be able to calculate the complex $\mathbf{k}$ even if permittivity and permeability are complex numbers or the functions of $ω$. There are some tricks in the derivation process, so we show the process in detail. Besides, we also provide an example for testing and explaining, and we also compare the results with the band structure derived from conventional plane wave expansion method, then we finally find that there is a good consistency between them.
We propose a method derived from the simple plane wave expansion that can easily solve the interface problem between vacuum and a semi-infinite photonic crystal. The method is designed to find the complete set of all the eigenfunctions, propagating or evanescent, of the translation operators $\{{\bf T_R} \}$, at a fixed frequency. With these eigenfunctions and their eigenvalues, the transmitted and reflected waves can be determined. Two kinds of applications are presented for 2D photonic crystals. The first is a selection rule for determine the normal direction of the vacuum-photonic crystal interface to achieve the highest attenuation effect at a gap frequency. The second is to calculate the transmittance and reflectance for a light incident from vacuum to an semi-infinite photonic crystal. As an example we recalculate a system studied previously by K. Sakoda et al. and get results in agreement with theirs.