Rough surface scattering simulations using graphics cards

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Authors	KLAPETEK Petr VALTR Miroslav PORUBA Aleš NEČAS David OHLÍDAL Miloslav
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Applied Surface Science
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Optics, masers and lasers
Keywords	FDTD;graphics processing unit
Description	In this article we present results of rough surface scattering calculations using a graphical processing unit implementation of the Finite Difference in Time Domain algorithm. Numerical results are compared to real measurements and computational performance is compared to computer processor implementation of the same algorithm. As a basis for computations, atomic force microscope measurements of surface morphology are used. It is shown that the graphical processing unit capabilities can be used to speedup presented computationally demanding algorithms without loss of precision.
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