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The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FD-TD) Method for Electromagnetic Scattering and Interaction Problems

A. Taflove Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Technological Institute Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA
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K.R. Umashankar Communications Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60680, USA
Pages 243-267 | Published online: 03 Apr 2012

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