Re: Simulation on a monolayer

A monolayer of particles is mathematically analogous to a photonic- 
crystal slab.  Like a slab, you handle it by using a unit cell in the  
plane of the particles, and a supercell in the vertical direction, and  
then looking at the modes only below the light line of the material  
above/below the monolayer.

Steven

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Ian D. Hosein wrote:
>    How exactly would I go about simulating the band structure of a
> monolayer of particles, say a monolayer of dielectric spheres? I  
> don't want
> to use the no-size, because that would just make my structure into  
> rods. I'm
> interested in the seeing photonic properties of the three dimensional
> monolayer structure.  Would I just set the vector perpendicular to  
> the layer
> to infinity or a very large value?