Theory of perturbation of electric potential by a 3D object made of an anisotropic dielectric material

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Hamad M. Alkhoori, Nikolaos L. Tsitsas

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Abstract

The extended boundary condition method (EBCM) was formulated for the perturbation of a source electric potential by a 3D object composed of a homogeneous anisotropic dielectric medium whose relative permittivity dyadic is positive definite. The formulation required the application of Green’s second identity to the exterior region to deduce the electrostatic counterpart of the Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem. The electric potential inside the object was represented using a basis obtained by implementing an affine bijective transformation of space to the Gauss equation for the electric field. The EBCM yields a transition matrix that depends on the geometry and the composition of the 3D object, but not on the source potential.

Original languageEnglish
Article number115010
JournalJournal of Physics Communications
Volume5
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021

Keywords

  • anisotropic dielectric
  • electrostatics
  • extended boundary condition method

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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