TY - BOOK AU - Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Abdallah Maghrabi AU - Abdelkarim Shaban Omar Hassan , AU - Ahmed Sayed Abdelsamea Mohamed , AU - Nadia Hassain Rafat , TI - Optimal design of photonic crystal structures / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Abdallah Maghrabi , KW - Minimax optimization KW - Optimal system design KW - Simulated-driven optimization N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mathematics and Physics; Issued also as CD N2 - This thesis proposes two novel optimization approaches for achieving the optimal design of 1D photonic crystals. The {uFB01}rst approach is based on minimax criterion where nominal values of designable parameters are varied to best satisfy design speci{uFB01}cations. The second approach is based on design centering criterion, in which the objective is to maximize the probability of satisfying design speci{uFB01}cations. Two practical examples are given to demonstrate {uFB02}exibility and e{uFB03}ciency of the approaches UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -