Dipole at (0,0) in a vacuum slot |x| < 0.5 λ0 (0.5 μm of free space on each side if λ0 = 1 μm). Design occupies 0.5 ≤ |x| ≤ 4 λ0 and |y| ≤ 1 λ0. Density is optimized in the first quadrant and mirrored through x = 0 and y = 0. Material ε ∈ [1, 4].
ε(x,y), source as red/white dot. Red band is the frozen vacuum strip when present.|E|² at the evaluation frequency
Fragile band ρ_dilate − ρ_erode. Speckle lights up; a clean interface is a thin outline.LDOS enhancement, Q, and length-scale penalty vs Maxwell-matrix factorizations