Ch. Hafner, J. Smajic, R. Vogelgesang.
World Scientific Publishing Company (November 2011). ISBN-13: 978-9814355278

In "Plasmonics and Plasmonic Metamaterials: Analysis and Applications (Materials and Energy)" by Gennady Shvets and Igor Tsukerman, editors.

First, the main computational techniques for solving electromagnetic problems with focus on plasmonics, antennas, and waveguides are reviewed. Special attention is paid to special symmetries, such as symmetry with respect to one or several planes, cylindrical symmetry, rotational symmetry, periodic symmetry in one or more directions, and combinations of these symmetries. Then, tricky problems, such as a metallic tip – excited by a fundamental wire mode – and a finite chain of metallic spheres, embedded in a dielectric cylinder are investigated using the finite element method (FEM) and the multiple multipole program (MMP) in order to illustrate the procedures.