Anisotropic composite materials with intensity-dependent permittivity tensor: The bruggeman approach

Electromagnetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 129-137

  Lakhtakia, Mercedes N ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b  

^a State College   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic Composite Materials; Bruggeman Approach; Homogenization; Nonlinear Composite Materials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012422389     PISSN: 02726343     EISSN: 1532527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02726340151134425     Document Type: Article

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