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Nature Photonics volume 9, pages 5–6 (2015)Cite this article

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Nature Photonics spoke to Allen Taflove, father of the finite-difference time-domain technique, about the birth of Maxwell's equations and their impact on the world after 150 years.

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Pile, D. Numerical solution. Nature Photon 9, 5–6 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.305

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