We present a comparison among several fully-vectorial methods applied to a basic scattering problem governed by the physics of the electromagnetic interaction between subwavelength apertures in a metal film. The modelled structure represents a slit-groove scattering problem in a silver film deposited on a glass substrate. The benchmarked methods, all of which use in-house developed software, in...

We study the role of surface plasmons in the near-field focusing of a finite-linewidth point dipole by a planar silver film using three-dimensional finite element calculations. We find that the intensity distribution in the image plane at a distance of 60 nm from the source is narrowed by a factor of 1.4 in the presence of a 30-nm-thick silver film. The lateral field components are found to be ...

An X-ray microbeam study and a polycrystal finite element model of a 10 10 m2 section of a 1 m thick polycrystalline aluminum film on a silicon substrate are used to investigate the effect of microstructure on thermal stress variability. In the X-ray microbeam study, the grain orientations and deviatoric elastic strain field are measured at the subgrain level in the film during and after two th...

Martensitic thin films have applications in actuators, sensors, and micromachines because of their large work output/(cycle · volume) [22]. Single-crystal martensitic thin films have recently been grown in the laboratory [12] and theoretically offer even larger work output/(cycle · volume) [5]. Bhattacharya and James [5] have rigorously derived a thin film variational principle from the three-d...

introduction: nowadays new radiochromic films have an essential role in radiotherapy dosimetry. properties such as high sensitivity, good reproducibility, high spatial resolution, easy readout and portability have made them attractive for dosimetry, especially in high-dose-gradient regions. material and methods: in this study, electron-beam dose distributions in homogenous and heterogeneous pha...

This paper presents a constitutive model capable of predicting the anisotropic viscoelastic behavior of balloon film subject to large strains and cyclic loading. The model is based on the free volume theory of nonlinear viscoelasticity enhanced with a switching rule for treating loading and unloading differently. The model has been implemented in the finite element analysis program Abaqus/Stand...