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Metasurface: microwave frequency selective surface (FSS)

12GHz bandstop FSS: periodic metal cross array on dielectric substrate. One unit cell with periodic (Bloch) boundaries, excited by a plane wave at normal or oblique incidence theta. Compare with Tidy3D example

Setup

lumi backend: None
using simulation folder runs/FSS
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Solve

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backend using simulation folder runs/FSS
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setting up simulation...
processing geometry bodies...
generating voxels...
subpixel smoothing: 1.629317 seconds (9.74 M allocations: 431.472 MiB, 2.56% gc time, 224.68% compilation time)
making sources o1 ...
making monitors o1 o2 ...
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run: runs/FSS
processor: CPU
cpu threads: 16

nres: 16.0
courant: 0.9
subpixel_smoothing: 1
  
boundaries: [:PEC :PEC; :PMC :PMC; :PML :PML]

sources
   o1: 0, 0, 32.1 

monitors
   o1: 0, 0, 30.1 
   o2: 0, 0, -32.2 

original size: (24, 24, 57)
padded size: (24, 24, 91)
cell count: 52,416

step size: 321.0 steps/period
source duration: 3 periods

max time: 100 periods    
max steps: 32,100
max load: 1,682,553,600 cell-steps
energy decay threshold: 0.001

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running simulation...
accumulating dft field...
period 2.5, 4.33 seconds/period
period 5.0, decay: 0.325, 0.121 seconds/period
period 7.5, decay: 0.035, 0.091 seconds/period
period 10.01, decay: 0.002, 0.094 seconds/period
period 10.77 stop on energy decay
simulation completed.

Movie

Video generated successfully at runs/FSS/Ex_0_0_0.05.webp!
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Results

loading solution from runs/FSS
may take a minute if simulation folder is remotely mounted
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