Breinbjerg, Olav

Burger, Sven

de Lasson, Jakob Rosenkrantz

Frandsen, Lars Hagedorn

Gregersen, Niels

Gutsche, Philipp

Häyrynen, Teppo

Ivinskaya, Aliaksandra

Kim, Oleksiy S.

Lavrinenko, Andrei

Mørk, Jesper

Sigmund, Ole

Wang, Fengwen

Five computational methods are benchmarked by computing quality factors and resonance wavelengths inphotonic crystal membrane L5 and L9 line defect cavities. Careful convergence studies reveal that some methods are more suitable than others for analyzing these cavities.<br/

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