TY - GEN A1 - Gutsche, Philipp A1 - Läuter, Matthias A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Parameter-dependent Parallel Block Sparse Arnoldi and Döhler Algorithms on Distributed Systems N2 - We summarize the basics and first results of the analyses within our ZIB Bridge Project and give an outlook on further studies broadening the usage of hardware acceleration within the Finite Element Method (FEM) based solution of Maxwell’s equations. T3 - ZIB-Report - 16-15 KW - Generalized Eigenvalue Problem KW - Many Integrated Core Coprocessor (MIC) KW - Finite Element Method Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-58202 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hammerschmidt, Martin A1 - Barth, Carlo A1 - Pomplun, Jan A1 - Burger, Sven A1 - Becker, Christiane A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Reconstruction of photonic crystal geometries using a reduced basis method for nonlinear outputs N2 - Maxwell solvers based on the hp-adaptive finite element method allow for accurate geometrical modeling and high numerical accuracy. These features are indispensable for the optimization of optical properties or reconstruction of parameters through inverse processes. High computational complexity prohibits the evaluation of the solution for many parameters. We present a reduced basis method (RBM) for the time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering problem allowing to compute solutions for a parameter configuration orders of magnitude faster. The RBM allows to evaluate linear and nonlinear outputs of interest like Fourier transform or the enhancement of the electromagnetic field in milliseconds. We apply the RBM to compute light-scattering off two dimensional photonic crystal structures made of silicon and reconstruct geometrical parameters. T3 - ZIB-Report - 16-06 KW - finite element method KW - rigorous optical modeling KW - photonic crystals KW - reduced basis method KW - parameter estimation KW - optical metrology Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-57249 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hammerschmidt, Martin A1 - Herrmann, Sven A1 - Burger, Sven A1 - Pomplun, Jan A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Reduced basis method for the optimization of nano-photonic devices N2 - Optical 3D simulations in many-query and real-time contexts require new solution strategies. We study an adaptive, error controlled reduced basis method for solving parametrized time-harmonic optical scattering problems. Application fields are, among others, design and optimization problems of nano-optical devices as well as inverse problems for parameter reconstructions occuring e. g. in optical metrology. The reduced basis method presented here relies on a finite element modeling of the scattering problem with parametrization of materials, geometries and sources. T3 - ZIB-Report - 16-10 KW - reduced basis method KW - model reduction KW - optical critical dimension metrology KW - electromagnetic field solver Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-57556 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hammerschmidt, Martin A1 - Herrmann, Sven A1 - Pomplun, Jan A1 - Burger, Sven A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Model order reduction for the time-harmonic Maxwell equation applied to complex nanostructures T2 - Proc. SPIE N2 - Fields such as optical metrology and computational lithography require fast and efficient methods for solving the time-harmonic Maxwell’s equation. Highly accurate geometrical modeling and numerical accuracy atcomputational costs are a prerequisite for any simulation study of complex nano-structured photonic devices. We present a reduced basis method (RBM) for the time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering problem based on the hp-adaptive finite element solver JCMsuite capable of handling geometric and non-geometric parameter dependencies allowing for online evaluations in milliseconds. We apply the RBM to compute light-scatteringoptical wavelengths off periodic arrays of fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) where geometrical properties such as the width and height of the fin and gate can vary in a large range. T3 - ZIB-Report - 16-05 KW - reduced basis method KW - finite element method KW - rigorous optical modeling KW - reduced order models KW - electromagnetic field solver Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-57239 SN - 1438-0064 VL - 9742 SP - 97420M ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hammerschmidt, Martin A1 - Lockau, Daniel A1 - Zschiedrich, Lin A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Optical modelling of incoherent substrate light-trapping in silicon thin film multi-junction solar cells with finite elements and domain decomposition N2 - In many experimentally realized applications, e.g. photonic crystals, solar cells and light-emitting diodes, nano-photonic systems are coupled to a thick substrate layer, which in certain cases has to be included as a part of the optical system. The finite element method (FEM) yields rigorous, high accuracy solutions of full 3D vectorial Maxwell's equations [1] and allows for great flexibility and accuracy in the geometrical modelling. Time-harmonic FEM solvers have been combined with Fourier methods in domain decomposition algorithms to compute coherent solutions of these coupled system. [2,3] The basic idea of a domain decomposition approach lies in a decomposition of the domain into smaller subdomains, separate calculations of the solutions and coupling of these solutions on adjacent subdomains. In experiments light sources are often not perfectly monochromatic and hence a comparision to simulation results might only be justified if the simulation results, which include interference patterns in the substrate, are spectrally averaged. In this contribution we present a scattering matrix domain decomposition algorithm for Maxwell's equations based on FEM. We study its convergence and advantages in the context of optical simulations of silicon thin film multi-junction solar cells. This allows for substrate light-trapping to be included in optical simulations and leads to a more realistic estimation of light path enhancement factors in thin-film devices near the band edge. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-21 KW - finite element method KW - rigorous optical modeling KW - domain decomposition KW - multi-junction solar cells KW - thin-film silicon solar cells KW - incoherent layers KW - incoherent light-trapping Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-50410 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hammerschmidt, Martin A1 - Pomplun, Jan A1 - Burger, Sven A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Adaptive sampling strategies for efficient parameter scans in nano-photonic device simulations N2 - Rigorous optical simulations are an important tool in optimizing scattering properties of nano-photonic devices and are used, for example, in solar cell optimization. The finite element method (FEM) yields rigorous, time-harmonic, high accuracy solutions of the full 3D vectorial Maxwell's equations [1] and furthermore allows for great flexibility and accuracy in the geometrical modeling of these often complex shaped 3D nano-structures. A major drawback of frequency domain methods is the limitation of single frequency evaluations. For example the accurate computation of the short circuit current density of an amorphous silicon / micro-crystalline multi-junction thin film solar cell may require the solution of Maxwell's equations for over a hundred different wavelengths if an equidistant sampling strategy is employed. Also in optical metrology, wavelength scans are frequently used to reconstruct unknown geometrical and material properties of optical systems numerically from measured scatterometric data. In our contribution we present several adaptive numerical integration and sampling routines and study their efficiency in the context of the determination of generation rate profiles of solar cells. We show that these strategies lead to a reduction in the computational effort without loss of accuracy. We discuss the employment of tangential information in a Hermite interpolation scheme to achieve similar accuracy on coarser grids. We explore the usability of these strategies for scatterometry and solar cell simulations. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-20 KW - finite element method KW - optical simulations KW - adaptive sampling KW - optical metrology KW - parameter scans KW - solar cells Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-50395 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ruprecht, Daniel A1 - Schädle, Achim A1 - Schmidt, Frank A1 - Zschiedrich, Lin T1 - Transparent boundary conditons for time-dependent problems N2 - A new approach to derive transparent boundary conditions (TBCs) for wave, Schrödinger, heat and drift-diffusion equations is presented. It relies on the pole condition and distinguishes between physical reasonable and unreasonable solutions by the location of the singularities of the spatial Laplace transform of the exterior solution. To obtain a numerical algorithm, a Möbius transform is applied to map the Laplace transform onto the unit disc. In the transformed coordinate the solution is expanded into a power series. Finally, equations for the coefficients of the power series are derived. These are coupled to the equation in the interior, and yield transparent boundary conditions. Numerical results are presented in the last section, showing that the error introduced by the new approximate TBCs decays exponentially in the number of coefficients. T3 - ZIB-Report - 07-12 KW - transparent boundary condition KW - non-reflecting boundary condition KW - pole condition KW - wave equation KW - Schrödinger equation KW - drift diffusion equation Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-9558 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schädle, Achim A1 - Zschiedrich, Lin A1 - Burger, Sven A1 - Klose, Roland A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - Domain Decomposition Method for Maxwell's Equations: Scattering off Periodic Structures N2 - We present a domain decomposition approach for the computation of the electromagnetic field within periodic structures. We use a Schwarz method with transparent boundary conditions at the interfaces of the domains. Transparent boundary conditions are approximated by the perfectly matched layer method (PML). To cope with Wood anomalies appearing in periodic structures an adaptive strategy to determine optimal PML parameters is developed. We focus on the application to typical EUV lithography line masks. Light propagation within the multi-layer stack of the EUV mask is treated analytically. This results in a drastic reduction of the computational costs and allows for the simulation of next generation lithography masks on a standard personal computer. T3 - ZIB-Report - 06-04 KW - domain decomposition KW - conical diffraction KW - electro-magnetic scattering KW - Maxwell's equations KW - Lithography KW - finite elements Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-8984 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Zschiedrich, Lin A1 - Klose, Roland A1 - Schädle, Achim A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - A new Finite Element realization of the Perfectly Matched Layer Method for Helmholtz scattering problems on polygonal domains in 2D N2 - In this paper we propose a new finite element realization of the Perfectly Matched Layer method (PML-method). Our approach allows to deal with arbitrary shaped polygonal domains and with certain types of inhomogeneous exterior domains. Among the covered inhomogeneities are open waveguide structures playing an essential role in integrated optics. We give a detailed insight to implementation aspects. Numerical examples show exponential convergence behavior to the exact solution with the thickness of the PML sponge layer. T3 - ZIB-Report - 03-44 KW - transparent boundary conditions KW - perfectly matched layer KW - pole condition Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-7662 ER -