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MATLAB® FDTD Fields Solver v.2-0 2011 Neva EM A 3D FDTD code implemented in MATLAB Contents Page Section I. Yee grid and finite differences 2 Section II. Material properties 10 Section III. Model of a small dipole antenna (electric dipole) 13 Section IV. Model of a small coil antenna (magnetic dipole) 17 Section V. Model of an impressed electric field or voltage source (loop of magnetic current) 26 Section VI. Boundary conditions 32 1 MATLAB® FDTD Fields Solver v.2-0 2011 Neva EM Section I. Yee grid and finite differences 1. Yee grid 2. Maxwell’s equations in three dimensions 3. Maxwell’s equations on Yee grid 4. Exponential time-stepping 5. MATLAB implementation of the Yee method 6. References 1. Yee grid A cubic Yee unit cell (uniform cell size  in all directions) is shown in Fig. 1. It has the following features [1]: 1. The electric field is defined at the edge centers of a cube; 2. The magnetic field is defined at the face centers of a cube; 3. The electric permittivity/conductivity is defined at the cube center(s); 4. The magnetic permeability/magnetic loss is defined at the cube nodes (corners). Fig. 1. Yee unit cell. Therefore, four interleaving indexing systems (i,j,k) in space may be introduced and used simultaneously: i. the system based on cube edge centers (for the electric field); ii